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4/16/2017

How Celebrities, Gyms, Trainers, Companies can help people reach their health goals

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Training Together to Just Win at achieving our fitness goals
Social Media (Instagram, Facebook, SnapChat, Twitter, and YouTube) dominates people's lives. With over 400 million diabetics worldwide, people can improve their health and happiness thru exercise. According to the World Health Organization, people age 18-64 should exercise 150 minutes a week. 

Many people spend their precious time living thru their favorite sport or Hollywood star's lives. What they need to do is use their star as inspiration to move from a "sideline spectator or troller" to "going on the field." To succeed, just focus on being a better you instead of trying to look like a professional athlete as their day job is to have a perfect body. Also be aware that celebrity bodies are often photo-shopped which make it unwise for people to imitate. 

The call-to-action is for the fitness ecosystem to band together for the betterment of the world to train together to achieve their fitness goals. Using your social media influencer platform, let's challenge everyone to activate their community by signing up for JustHuynh.


1. Celebrities 
You have millions of fans waiting for your social media posts, but struggle to hold themselves accountable and motivated to exercise.  Use your influence to make positive impacts in society by encouraging your fans to signup at JustHuynh so that we can launch in communities that have sufficient training partner demand. Your fans will love you even more for motivating them to achieve their health goals. 

2. Gyms
Many gym members signup during New Years to take advantage of discounted rates, but stop showing up after a couple months - being susceptible to diabetes and obesity. In the United States, there are over 55 million people with gym memberships where a stunning 80% go unused. To enhance your gym community as a mission-driven owner, it is important to ensure that current gym members have a wonderful experience to bring in new gym members. Motivating 80% of the unused memberships to work towards their fitness goals will earn you respect in the fitness community as an owner who cares about your member's health. 

3. Trainers
Trainers are valuable for people on all ends of the spectrum ranging from 0% exercise to professional athlete.  With a mobile application such as JustHuynh that connects people nearby to train together, cultivating a community of people working towards their fitness goals will result in healthier and happier people.  The call to action is to raise awareness in your communities thru social media and word of mouth so that you'll have access to an excited clientele base either locally or anywhere if you're an online trainer. 

4. Companies
Companies rely on productive employees for business profitability. The health of employees is critical to performance as Wal-Mart experienced when requested employees to push carts each day for physical activity. After a period of time, the employees became healthier, Wal-Mart's healthcare costs decreased, and company performance improved. 

Many companies have corporate gyms. The time is now - spread the word (i.e. Executive leadership, HR, Benefits Administrators) for employees to sign up at JustHuynh so they can find training partners at work or outside who can provide the needed accountability and motivation to achieve their fitness goals. Healthier employees will lead to lower healthcare expenditure and increased business profitability.

​A Huynh-Huynh (win-win) situation for everyone!

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4/16/2017

4:44AM Fitness Club - 5 Things You Need

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Many people have time preferences for working out - typically morning, lunch, or dinner.  I workout at 4:44AM for the needed energy to fuel me thru the day. As an aside, 5AM is the earliest gyms open so it's always exciting to see a line of die-hards standing outside the gym for the manager to open the door. Starting the day with a morning fitness victory is a sensational feeling. To get started with the 4:44AM club or another workout time, you'll need the below. 

1. Goals
Set goal of whether you're striving to lose weight, gain muscle, or maintain athleticism. Put a time period deadline (i.e. 30 days, 3 months) to reach this goal then reassess after every goal period.  These goals can be measured with body weight, speed, endurance, agility, and strength.  Many people religiously idolize athletes and celebrities for their physique. Instead of just cheering on the sideline, follow your favorite people on social media to understand the nutrition and exercise routines that can be incorporated in your life.

2. Schedule 
Determine days/times of the week that you'll be working out so that those times are blocked in your calendar. Before the workout, lay out all of your workout gear (i.e. clothes, music, pre/post workout meal, shoes, workout plan, etc) in a place for you to see so that you won't skip the workout. 

3. Workouts
Map out your workout routine. For example, I typically lift 3 times a week and cardio 3 times a week - Sundays off! Have a library of your favorite workout routines/programs that you can use to target different muscle groups for muscle confusion and growth.

4. Nutrition
Based on your fitness goal, ensure that you have a balanced nutrition of protein, carbohydrates, vegetables, supplements, fats, etc. 

5. Partner
Many people start New Years Resolution strong in New Year but give up in 2 months. Working out with training partners provide the needed accountability and motivation to achieve your fitness goals.  Identify or find at least 5 people who you can train with. Thru gamification and community support, JustHuynh can help you be a better you! 

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4/16/2017

5 Benefits College Students Get from Startup Experience

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A journey of 1,000 steps starts with 1 step

During my undergraduate college days, Facebook just started to take over MySpace, but there weren't opportunities at the time for students to get their foot in the door with startups for real-world experience.

In the real world, flashy degrees and test scores from big-name schools to pile on your resume are nice to have but not required as succeeding in startup space is all about execution. This mantra is reiterated by many successful entrepreneurs such as Chris Sacca and Casey Neistat by telling everyone "Ideas are cheap, execution is everything."

Fast forwarding to the summer of 2014, startup opportunities were everywhere with founders welcoming help from passionate college students. I had a wonderful experience volunteering for two startups at MassChallenge. 

Now on the other side as startup founder, I am excited to carve out opportunities for college students as startup experience is the future with many college students interested in joining the likes of disruptive companies: Uber (taxis), WhatsApp (messaging), and Tinder (dating). 

Currently, many fitness passionate college students are helping out JustHuynh due to these benefits. 


1. Personal Branding
At corporations, your professional presence is generally just on LinkedIn. With a startup, you learn how to sell - crucially important when you're interviewing for a job, stating your case for promotion, negotiating price of an expensive item, and even dating/proposing to a significant other.

Working with JustHuynh - college students will be able to grow their personal brand digitally as they motivate others around them to train together in achieving their fitness goals. Instead of just a LinkedIn presence, college students can enhance their personal brands by establishing presence on YouTube, Facebook, SnapChat, Instagram, Twitter, and Blogs. 


2. Real World Experience  
Learning in the classroom helps as a theoretical base in preparation for the real-world, but as Mike Tyson says, "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face." Instead of relying on just class projects and club activities to convey your potential as a star employee - being able to speak about your startup experience will put you head and shoulders above your peers for any position.

If you're a person who wants to wake up motivated everyday to provide value to society instead of dreading another 9-5PM day working in an unfruitful corporate culture, then startups are for you. 

Best of all at JustHuynh, some college students and MBAs are able to earn independent study academic credit. Who doesn't want to gain startup experience and academic credit to enjoy Senioritis? 


3. Global Network 
With a distributed startup team, you'll grow a global circle of colleagues who all share the company's mission regardless of your physical address.

With JustHuynh, you have the opportunity to be recognized as a star in your community - being able to "break the ice" with anyone.  Your quality interactions with customers, teammates, partners, and leadership team can result in stellar reference letters and referrals for career opportunities - putting you ahead of the pack during job application process. 


4. Growth Potential 
For many college students, internship experiences may involve lots of administrative work, coffee pickups, and printer visits as some companies aren't comfortable trusting college students with significant responsibility due to potential losses for the company if the college student fails.

As a founder, I thrive on surrounding myself with the best people and providing autonomy for teammates. Teammates are expected to set SMART goals and be accountable for those goals. This contrarian trust unlocks people's confidence to recognize their potential. If you get that "phone call" from me as former classmates, co-workers, or friends can attest to, you know that an exciting opportunity is on the line so it's your choice to run with it or not.

As a New Englander, my favorite sports organization is the New England Patriots. With Head Coach Bill Belichick and Quarterback Tom Brady as the mainstays for 5 championships, the Patriots thrive on signing free-agents who were viewed as "past their prime" from their previous team, drafting well, and convincing players to sacrifice their individual stat lines for team success. In the greatest Super Bowl ever, the Patriots exhibited a #nevergiveup mentality to will their way.

Successful startups live and breathe the Patriots-Way where every teammate's strengths are fully utilized for the betterment of customers and company. 


5. Entrepreneurial Mindset
An entrepreneurial mindset is beneficial for working with startups and corporate innovation. By working with startups, you'll exhibit the 3 "H" personalities and qualities.

Personality-wise, you'll wear 3 hats as a hustler (moving the needle), hacker (finding alternative solutions to impossible problems), and hipster (communicating well with any target audience).

As a teammate, you'll learn how to express humility (win with dignity/lose gracefully), hunger (never complacent with the status quo), and hang-worthiness (can pass the airport test with colleagues).  

These personalities and qualities will help you succeed throughout your professional career. 

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4/16/2017

From Business School to Fitness Entrepreneur

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3 reasons convinced me to take leap of faith in turning down stable 6-figure salary post-MBA to pursue my passion of helping people achieve their fitness goals: technology, passion, grit.

1. Technology 
As a first generation Asian American college graduate, the most preferred career success route was to attain high GPAs and Test Scores for stable occupation as a doctor. Unfortunately, the nightmarish experience in "Intro to Biology" Freshman year at Bowdoin changed my career path. 

To develop interpersonal skills, I stepped outside of my comfort zone to sell Cutco Cutlery with Vector Marketing and serve coffee at Dunkin Donuts for two consecutive summers. Those two summers led to a 4 year consulting journey - lodging on average 200 hotel nights each year as a road warrior.  

With emergence of technology startups solving people's problems at a rapid pace, I was dedicated to using my talents in tech so spent life's savings and 2 years of forfeited opportunity cost for MBA at Vanderbilt in entrepreneurship, strategy, and operations with internship stints at Sprint and Samsung
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2. Passion
Post-MBA, I got married that summer but was still unemployed as a highly educated and qualified individual - which perplexed my inner circle.  

Everything happens in life for a reason so I've always positioned negative and positive experiences as a stepping stone for a greater meaning.

As a martial artist and sprinter, I love working out at
4:44AM at least 5 times a week to fuel me thru the day. One day when I was working out at Planet Fitness, I noticed something there that occurred elsewhere in the world where I've workout (i.e. colleges, gyms, hotels, public spaces, etc) where many people set fitness goals for a variety of reasons such as for aesthetics or health, but quit on themselves within 2 months.  Speaking with the achievers and quitters, they all expressed want for training partners who can provide needed accountability and motivation.  

Over 400 million people worldwide have diabetes.  Personally, I struggled with obesity in college and consulting. Fortunately, training with partners helped me overcome those challenging times.  

Motivated and mission-driven to help make the world healthier and happier one workout at a time - I passed on corporate career opportunities to fully focus on developing a mobile app
that helps connect people nearby to train together to achieve their fitness goals. 
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3. Grit 
Startup life is like fitness where there is no overnight success. You have to put in the work. The work ethic I've poured into fitness translates perfectly with navigating the startup roller coaster. 

For market validation from people and tech community, we were ecstatic to have been accepted into StartupGrind and Collision Startup Programs. 

Boot-strapping - I'm grateful for team of volunteer fitness-passionate students (undergrad, MBA), personal trainers, social influencers, gyms, corporate wellness programs, and partners who are spreading the word to signup for mobile app at www.justhuynh.com
so we can launch in your community once there is sufficient training partner demand. 

Power of Sharing
With over 7 billion people in the world and 400 million affected by diabetes, the power of sharing on social media by one individual can have tremendous viral reach such as experiences with airlines, taxis, and health. 

Let's do some good together for a healthier and happier world - use social media to notify everyone to signup at
www.justhuynh.com. 

JustHuynh!


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    Francis Huynh is Founder & CEO of JustHuynh - the social fitness app that connects people nearby to just win at achieving their fitness goals by training together for needed accountability and motivation.  Personally experiencing obesity during college and consulting, training with partners helped Francis become healthier and happier. With time as most valuable resource, Francis turned down corporate career opportunities post-MBA to dedicate his life to help 400 million+ people affected with diabetes worldwide reach their health goals. Francis completed his undergrad at Bowdoin and MBA at Vanderbilt. He is living with wife in Boston. The mini-Franchises are currently on-hold until JustHuynh is helping the world. 

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