Amotti in real life isn\u2019t that different from his TV and online personas \u2013 positive, real, humble \u2013 but taller and more sculpted than the version you\u2019re familiar with on the screen. And might we add, he exudes a still-detectable sense of disbelief that he’d struck the Toto equivalent in his fitness career.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In any case, the exercise enthusiast certainly hadn\u2019t let his fitness schedule slide post-win and while on the road. \u201cI managed to work out twice yesterday,\u201d he said of his morning routine. Yes, he\u2019d already been to the gym twice on a Friday morning when the rest of us had barely finished our lukewarm kopi in the office.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEven when I\u2019m travelling, feeling that post-exercise joy is important to me, and I\u2019ll always add exercise to my itinerary,” he said.<\/p>\n
Not that he was a nobody pre-Physical: 100. Amotti (a\u00a0mishmash of his former Instagram handle @armour_hong and the cutesy Korean suffix “tti”) was, and still is, a popular professional CrossFitter and fitness YouTuber in Seoul \u2013 and certainly no stranger to autograph and picture requests, even right in the middle of a training session as we saw. \u201cThe most memorable autograph was for a fan in Singapore who asked me to sign his face,\u201d he laughed.<\/p>\n
But the man would rather you let him finish his set before approaching him in the gym, especially when he is deadlifting 210kg, bench-pressing 120kg or back-squatting 190kg (which, by the way, are his PBs or personal bests) \u2013 and all done with an ankle injury sustained from a car accident in 2021 that required 10 hours of surgery to fix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amotti in real life isn\u2019t that different from his TV and online personas \u2013 positive, real, humble \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,130430,130431],"class_list":{"0":"post-264629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-korean-culture","13":"tag-physical100"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}