Boon Seong Lim is a spin instructor with many ambitions, both for himself and the people around him. 

 

Due to the nature of his professions, Boon is always on his feet one way or another. When he’s not conducting spin classes, or tending to his full-time job as an economist and public policy consultant, he’s doing strength-training, attending dance classes, picking up tennis, or trying to get back into marathoning. For some, the schedule might sound tiring and outright impossible. But for Boon? It’s nothing but fulfilling.

If you were to ask Boon why he keeps pushing himself this hard, his answer would both be simple and yet not simple at all: to improve himself, his clients, and the whole fitness industry overall.

 

“My main role as a fitness instructor is to help people achieve their fitness goals,” he explains.
“It’s a huge responsibility to be entrusted with someone’s fitness journey,”

 

Because of this, Boon is constantly on the lookout for better, more engaging, and more personalized ways to help his clients. Between catering to every need, grasping the changes of a constantly-evolving industry, and meeting the demands of his already-demanding full-time job, he admits that the struggles can be both physically and emotionally exhausting.

 

However, the results of his hard work are often well worth the pain.

 

“It’s always exciting and rewarding to witness the progress that my clients have experienced in my classes,” he says. 

Despite this strong current passion for the field, Boon himself admits that he hadn’t always been the biggest fitness fan. In actuality, he was a lot less active growing up, lacked proper fitness guidance, and struggled to find a sport that he could truly enjoy.  It was only when he found indoor spinning for the first time that something finally ‘clicked’.

“Maybe it was the music, maybe it was the ambience, maybe it was the energy, there was something unique about indoor spinning that immediately captivated me,” he describes.

 

After attending a few spin classes as a student and doing a shadow ride on stage alongside an instructor, the management took notice and gave him a chance to do an audition. He proceeded to pass it, train for a couple more months, and eventually graduate the training programme as a full-fledged instructor and the rest, as they say, was history.

While his journey into indoor spinning might not have been the smoothest transition, his experiences definitely taught him some valuable things. Realizing that his lack of proper fitness guidance had been a major ‘hurdle’ into physical activity, Boon now strives to democratise the entire fitness industry by breaking all possible barriers to entry – whether it be lack of guidance, lack of suitable workouts, fear of judgment, or anything at all.

 

“Fitness should be accessible to all, and that is what I try to do as an instructor,” he says, “to make everyone feel welcome, and to help them identify the type of activities that suit them and guide them towards a healthier and better lifestyle.” 

 

While admirable, this goal would not be without its own share of barriers. When the pandemic first hit, Boon had a difficult time continuing his active lifestyle, and had to cut out many of his physical activities as the lockdowns started. This would disrupt his momentum, affect his physicality, and decrease his stamina – a setback that he’s still trying to recover from.