Alvin Lee Anyumba, extra popularly known as Alvin Lee Fitness, is a fitness guru who’s no stranger to both the geographical regions of gyms that dot the neighborhoods of Nairobi, mainly Alpha Fit at the metropolis’s Easterly Ngong avenue arterial, in addition to social media feeds, such as the ones of celebrities along with media personalities Kalekye Mumo and Maina Kageni who have hired his services to assist whip them into form, or the reigning Mr. World Kenya Cula Budi, one in all his close friends and gym companions.
The ripped and hard-to-ignore muscular physique of this 26-12 months-old personal trainer is due to an intellectual fortitude that exerts self subject and willpower to self-improvement. He these days was given married to his longtime girlfriend, Nessy. “If there was one Kenyan you could be for an afternoon, who would it not be and why?” I requested Alvin, specifying that it shouldn’t be a politician or the President.
“Well, sincerely I’m but to fulfill a person I might want to be (in Kenya), for a day. I’m nevertheless socializing, but whilst it happens, I’ll let you recognize.
Alvin might use five words to describe himself: Go–getter, Dreamer, Perfectionist, Creative and Innovative. “These are all of the things that human beings have stated about me, and I pick out to believe them due to the fact I can see the qualities in myself.”
Nate’s Crest: You get up at 4.00 am thereabout. Not many people do not forget themselves as morning human beings, even though they arise at such ungodly hours. Why do you, and what pushes you to?
Alvin Lee: I’m evidently a nocturnal individual. But the passion for my career, and the imaginative and prescient and dreams I even have for my destiny, coupled with the constant pursuit of what I’m able to, can’t allow me to awaken beyond 6.00 am on any day.
Nate’s Crest: It seems like a lot is happening for your lifestyles, from a weblog to social media posts, being a personal instructor, and living within the gym; how do you juggle all this?
Alvin Lee: It all boils all the way down to planning. My planning is primarily based on how effective and efficient I am to be doing what I’m passionate about – health has come to be my career and my lifestyles and how the extraordinary hustles and relationships match into my universal imagination prescient.
Alvin Lee: Calisthenics is truly the art of learning how to manage your body in space. I love how it teaches me a lot about my frame and its capability in fantastic detail, which is a whole topic in itself. I may also encounter that way surely due to the fact I’m the one who is documenting my calisthenics adventure the maximum in those elements.
Nate’s Crest: You’re a big man, I’m certain you get that loads. How did you get so big, and is health all pretty much gaming?
Alvin Lee: (laughs heartily) I set an intention to get big, and I did. I recognize meals – knowing it and how it affects my frame, and I literally revel in operating out. Fitness isn’t always handiest approximately going to the health club: There are mental fitness, spiritual fitness, and intellectual health. All these paintings hand in hand usual.
Nate’s Crest: Is there something that has, or does, demotivates you to your journey? (and how do you triumph over that?)
Alvin Lee: In all honesty, I’ve searched my soul approximately what demotivates me, and there’s nothing. I’ve been doing this without interest from everywhere and additionally with lots of interest from anywhere. This is a part of me; it’s my remedy. I take each negativity and positivity as a venture to press ahead.
Nate’s Crest: What are a number of your need-to-do exercising workouts and/or techniques which you’ve continually kept to overtime that has helped shape you up?
Pullups, Pushups, Hanging leg raises, and Pistol Squats. These are my all-time basis for learning proper fitness, in my view, even earlier than taking on weight education.
