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Kinsei-Do Health & Performance: My mission is to help you become the healthiest, happiest and highest performing you can be! Credentials

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Hello, and welcome to Kinsei-Do Health and Performance Coaching. For over five years I've been helping people just like you to live their healthiest, happiest and best lives.

I was a technology consultant for ten years before following my passion for health and fitness, so I know too well how the busy high stress life can derail your good intentions to live a healthy life and prevent you from being mentally and physically at your best. Taking care of business does not have to mean neglecting yourself! You can make time to train well, eat well and live well, so that you can deliver high performance at work and in life...and I will help to show you how! Sportwissenschaftler (Masters degree in Sports Science) - TU Darmstadt (2007)
- CrossFit Level 1 Trainer (2018)
- Certified Online Trainer (2021)
- Hintsa Certified Performance Coach (2022)
- Precision Nutrition Level 1 (in training - 2022)
- Primal Mobility certified coach (in training - 2022)

10/10/2026

HAPPY WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY

Mental health matters to me, both as a performance coach and in my work at BSJ, where the wellbeing of our staff, students and community is something we pay a lot of attention to.

It’s great to see how far the conversation has come. Mental health is talked about far more openly today than it was a few decades ago, and that’s a really good thing.

But there’s still work to do, especially for the guys I typically work with.

Men over 35 who used to be athletes. High performers who are used to being at the front of whatever they take on.

For people like that, acknowledging a struggle can feel almost foreign. Admitting something isn’t right can feel like conceding a weakness, and that’s just not something they do.

Which is exactly why it’s so good to see more people reaching out to coaches, and talking openly about the thoughts and challenges they used to keep to themselves.

Asking for support isn’t a step back. It’s what high performers do when something matters.

So, Happy World Mental Health Day!

I hope you’re taking care of your mental health today, and on all the days to come.

03/10/2026

I've talked recently about building a small fitness community here that eventually became Kinsei-Do, back in 2016.

Those early bootcamp sessions were great, but to be honest, they were pretty unstructured. The goal each week was simply to get a good workout in.

Around 2018, that changed when I started exploring CrossFit.

I got my Level 1 certification and went deep into a more structured strength and conditioning approach. It turned out to be a genuine turning point, not because CrossFit itself is magic, but because it forced me to remember something I'd learned years earlier.

Back in my Sports Science degree, methodical and structured training progressions were foundational concepts. CrossFit brought that back to the forefront of my mind, and helped reshape how I think about coaching today.

There's a big difference between one (or many) good workouts and a real methodology.

A good workout might leave you satisfied for a day. A methodology builds a well-rounded, resilient body over months and years, one that can actually handle the demands of a high-performance life.

But you're not a professional athlete, so why does that matter to you?

There's no single intervention, no one supplement, workout, or hack, that suddenly puts you on a path to optimal health.

It's never been and should never be about finding that ONE thing. Instead, what you want is to have real structure and a real process behind everything you do.

If you're looking for a sustainable structure instead of one-off training plans or scattered advice, that's precisely what my coaching is built around. Send me a DM to chat.

01/10/2026

Yesterday I mentioned how Kinsei-Do started back in 2016, a small fitness bootcamp community I ran on weekends here in Indonesia.

What I often enjoyed most running those sessions wasn't the workouts themselves. It was the shared energy. The support. The sense that everyone was pushing through the same workout together, at the same time.

That experience taught me something I still carry directly into my one-on-one coaching today. For amateur athletes and weekend warriors like most of us, it's never really just about the program.

It's about a partnership, where accountability and real change actually happen, built on genuine connection, not just a plan.

💡 Here's where I think this applies directly to you.

If you used to play a team sport, or were part of any kind of squad, swimming, tennis, football, whatever it was, a big part of what kept you training, showing up, pushing through the hard days, came from the collective.

The shared goal. The teammates who'd notice if you slacked off.

Then you left sport behind, moved into a corporate career, and suddenly your health became an entirely personal matter.

No teammates. No coach on the sideline.

Nobody who notices, or says anything, if you miss a day. Or a week. Or, let's be honest, sometimes years.

That missing piece can be the exact thing that made consistency possible in the first place.

This is exactly where working with a health and performance coach fills the gap, not just the program, but the partnership, the accountability, the person actually in your corner. If that resonates with you, take a look at kinseido.fit.

01/10/2026

This year marks 10 years since I started Kinsei-Do.

Back in June 2016, it began as Kinsei-Do Functional Fitness, an outdoor bootcamp community.

It eventually evolved into what it is today, Kinsei-Do Health & Performance coaching (kinseido.fit). I stopped running the outdoor bootcamps around 2019, as the format's popularity seemed to fade, and then Covid shut everything down anyway not long after.

So with a full decade now behind it, it feels like the right moment to look back to the actual why.

It was 2013 and I was deep into my first career in tech consulting at Accenture. I'd just been promoted to manager, and become a father around the same time.

For the first time, I pushed back on the weekly travel that consulting demanded and that I had really loved for many years, and took a project in my hometown instead.

The work-life balance was genuinely great.

But the project itself wasnt exciting, and my enjoyment of the job started slipping. That dissatisfaction only deepened after I moved to Indonesia, where neither the work itself nor the daily commute were things I actually looked forward to anymore.

I knew, somewhere in the back of my mind, that my days in consulting were numbered. At the same time, almost by accident, I saw an opportunity to build a small fitness community in my free time.

Working with people in a group setting reignited something in me I hadn't felt at a desk in years. It lit a fire to pursue something built around people and fitness, not computers and ERP software, and eventually led me to walk away from Accenture entirely.

Today, ten years on, I no longer run bootcamps but I still help high-performing people make their health and wellbeing a priority.

Bring on the next ten years!

21/09/2026

STOP OPTIMIZING. START SIMPLIFYING.

Came across an idea from an Arnold Schwarzenegger newsletter recently that's been sitting with me.

His point: most of the time, "optimizing" is just procrastination wearing a productive costume. It's the excuse to keep researching, reading, listening to another podcast, instead of actually doing the simple thing that works. His line was blunt: you're not a professional athlete perfecting the last 1%. Most people haven't even nailed the first 50%.

So drop "optimize," and replace it with "simplify."

That landed for me, for a specific reason.

For about a week now, I've been using an AI app to track my nutrition, take a photo, get an instant calorie and macro breakdown. It's genuinely wild how far this has come.

Fifteen, twenty years ago, when I first tried tracking with MyFitnessPal, keying everything in manually felt revolutionary, but it lived or died by how accurately you logged things.

Here's the honest context behind why I started again. I've been carrying a couple of extra kilos since summer ended, about eight weeks now, and nothing was shifting.

So I wanted to optimize: Find the perfect diet approach, dial in the details, get it exactly right.

Instead, I just started tracking, simply, consistently, nothing fancy.

The scale hasn't moved dramatically yet, and neither has how I look. But something has changed. The mindless urge to eat, the impulse grabs, they're noticeably quieter now. Just being aware of quantities, in a simple, low-effort way, has made stopping myself so much easier.

No optimization required. Just simple, honest awareness.

If you've been stuck chasing the perfect plan instead of just doing the simple, sustainable thing, that's something to think about.

This is how I work with clients in my Kinsei-Do Health & Performance system too; not chasing the perfect optimized system, but figuring out the routine and lifestyle that's actually simple enough to sustain long-term.

If that's what you need, take a look at kinseido.fit.

20/09/2026

GIVE A MAN A FISH...

You know the saying. Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach him to fish, he eats for life.

I was reminded of it this morning, continuing through Eric Helms's Muscle and Strength Pyramid for Nutrition. He makes a point about meal plans that stuck with me: handing someone an exact meal plan, telling them precisely what to eat, every meal, every day, might get them short-term results. But it also quietly defeats the actual purpose.

Because they never learn anything. They just follow instructions.

The moment life changes, travel, a busy week, a different kitchen, the plan falls apart, and so does the progress, because nothing was ever actually learned underneath it.

A lot of people think this is exactly what a good coach should provide. The exact meal plan. The exact program. Tell me precisely what to do, and I'll do it.

But that's giving someone a fish.

What actually matters, in nutrition and honestly in every part of health and lifestyle, is helping someone figure out for themselves what works for them, what they can realistically sustain, what actually supports their specific goals, and why. That's slower to build. It's a harder sell than "here's your meal plan." But it's the only version that survives contact with real life.

That's the fishing lesson, not the fish.

If you're tired of following plans that fall apart the moment life gets busy, and you want to actually understand how to build this for yourself long-term, that's exactly how we work at Kinsei-Do Health & Performance coaching.

Take a look at kinseido.fit.

18/09/2026

FOCUS ON WHAT TO DO...

..not what not to do.

I just started reading Eric Helms's Muscle and Strength Pyramid for Nutrition, and right there in the preface, he makes a point that stopped me for a moment. He says the book focuses on what to do, not what not to do.

Simple line. Really important idea.

Look around at most health content out there, and it's the opposite.

🍔 "10 Foods You Should Never Eat."

🫷 "Stop Doing These 5 Things."

We're absolutely swimming in lists of what to avoid, what to cut out, what to fear.

Meanwhile, not many people (except me, of course) talk about the boring stuff. Eat enough protein. Move most days. Sleep on a consistent schedule. Get enough fiber. None of that sells magazines or gets clicks, because it's not dramatic enough.

But it's also the stuff that actually works.

Restriction and avoidance feel productive in the moment, cutting something out gives you a quick sense of control. Building a foundation of good, consistent habits is slower and far less exciting to talk about. But it's the thing that actually moves the needle over months and years.

If you've spent more time thinking about what to cut out than what to actually add in, that's worth sitting with for a second.

Ever caught yourself falling into that "what not to do" trap? Drop a comment, I'd like to hear it.

And if you want a coaching approach built around the fundamentals instead of the fear-based stuff, kinseido.fit has more on how I think about this.

16/09/2026

JUST FINISHED THIS, AND I'M FIRED UP

Just wrapped up Functional Bodybuilding 101 by Marcus Filly, and I'm genuinely excited about it.

Some books you read and nod along with. This one had me actively thinking about how to apply it, both with clients and in my own training.

Good timing too, because this Saturday I'm restarting my Saturday morning CrossFit sessions for parents at British School Jakarta.

This time around, I want to build the programming specifically around what parents actually need in real life. Not chasing numbers on a whiteboard, but moving well, building real strength, and genuinely looking and feeling good, in a way that fits people with actual jobs and actual kids, not competitive athletes.

If you're a BSJ parent and any of this sounds like what you've been missing, come join us Saturday morning and try it out.

For everyone else, if you want a similar approach applied to your own training, drop a comment, send me a DM, or take a look at kinseido.fit.

15/09/2026

Had this beauty of a salad for lunch from our school caterer yesterday, loads of fresh ingredients, properly put together, and honestly great value for what it was. Made me wonder why I hadn't been ordering from them sooner.

But here's the part that I actually want to talk about.

I ate around 1pm, felt fully satisfied afterward, no lingering hunger. And yet none of the usual post-lunch heaviness followed.

An hour later I was out running my ultimate frisbee ECA with the students, even jumping onto the field with them for a bit. That's just not something that happens after a heavy, carb-loaded lunch. You know the feeling, the one where you're fighting to stay upright at your desk by 2pm.

Small thing, but it's a good reminder of how directly what you eat shapes how you actually function a few hours later, not just how you look eventually.

If you want strategies for eating (and living) in a way that lets you actually perform when it matters, not just survive the afternoon, come take a look at kinseido.fit, or send me a DM.

13/09/2026

A FULL-CIRCLE MOMENT

Yesterday I played in an ultimate frisbee hat tournament for the first time in years.

The location made it special. It was held at BSJ's new Arena, on the same site where, eight years ago, I first tried to bring ultimate frisbee to this part of Greater Jakarta.

Back then, I reached out to a few people in the community, and we got a small group together playing on the (uncovered, at the time) astro turf field. It eventually grew into BSJ hosting a hat tournament in 2018, quite possibly the first one ever held in Jakarta.

Eight years later, standing on that same spot again, it hit me just how far things had come.

There's a funny footnote to this too.

Back then, I introduced ultimate frisbee to a colleague who worked at BSJ with me. I drifted away from the sport for years and only picked it back up earlier this year. He never stopped.

He's since represented Indonesia at the SEA Games, and is now president of the Indonesian Flying Disc Federation.

Same starting point. Very different eight years.

I keep coming back to this because it's basically the same principle behind everything I coach. You rarely know, in the moment, which small decision is going to matter. A choice made today, kept up consistently, can shape where you end up a decade from now, in ways you can't predict yet.

If you used to be an athlete, and life has quietly pulled you away from that for a while, this is your reminder. The small choice you make today, the workout, the walk, the decision to actually deal with that nagging shoulder, might not look like much right now.

But eight years from now, you might be genuinely surprised by what it turned into.

If you're ready to start making that choice again, go take a look at kinseido.fit.

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