Fit & Fab: Tricia Yap
Tricia Yap always had a passion for fashion and jewellery. So friends and family were shocked when she took up white-collar boxing two years ago.
Tricia Yap always had a passion for fashion and jewellery. So friends and family were shocked when she took up white-collar boxing two years ago. But with three fights under her belt, an obsession with martial arts and a new career as a personal trainer, today it's Yap who's surprised.
"Things I never dreamed of being able to do I accomplished in just six months," she says. Her success began with a victorious debut match at the Hedge Fund Fight Night in October 2011 - the first woman to do so at the event.
In the six months leading up to the fight, she endured a gruelling regime of training twice a day, six days a week, at Jab boxing studios in Central, subsisting on a strict diet to lose eight kilograms. Realising what hard work and determination could achieve, 30-year-old Yap didn't stop.
With her new confidence, the IT project manager began studying to be a personal trainer. Complementing her boxing skills, she took up Brazilian jiu-jitsu (a form of martial arts) with the goal of one day fighting in a mixed martial arts match.
"Anything is possible and attainable if you throw out the excuses, put in the hard work and never lose faith," she says.