Dr Tang Liszen is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon. His weeks are spent travelling back and forth for surgery, sometimes as far as Selangor and back again after a full day in the operating theatre. He has trained at home since he was 18, so fitness was never foreign to him. Staying consistent with that kind of schedule, though, was another matter.
Then came a period he now calls his life-changing moment. He was burning out. The stress of that season took a real toll on his body: he was diagnosed with health issues, his condition grew serious, and the symptoms would not let up. At some point he admitted it to himself: I can’t keep going on like this. He decided it was time to take his own health seriously.
Success without health is incomplete.
Dr Tang Liszen
He still remembers his early days at Fitcom. He told his coach he couldn’t even touch his own back. His coach built a schedule and training program around his unpredictable surgeon’s hours, and as he trained along with it, things he had struggled with for years began to change. His muscles grew stable enough to support him, and one day he realised he no longer remembered what that old pain felt like.
His advice is simple. There will never be a perfect time, and that’s alright: start small, and that is already good enough. Loving someone is not just about words; you need to put it into action. Success without health, he says, is incomplete.
