Top Asian Influencer Reveals the TRUTH Behind Weight Loss

going on everybody Welcome to episode three of T to talks today I am joined by American or Tha American Fitness influencer Tyler path yes sir yes sir otherwise known as Tyler P since we're here in Thailand right because I would say probably in the US nobody is familiar with that right no I usually I go by Tyler Peta that's like the English pronunciation Tyler paseta to how do you say it one more time we are here we're just through the stories right now between tongor and eamay we're going to go get some crazy uh viral seafood at here High yes sir but on the way there man I have a ton of questions I want to ask you what real quick I'm just gonna pop up what you're known for right here for sure uh would you say this is like um you have like two personas one guy is like the the low sophistication lifter and your other persona is like I don't know how to say like it's from anime but it almost reminds me of something from anime where that's the high sophistication lifter yeah yeah so I I wouldn't explain it as sophistication like low sophistication High sophistication I honestly I really think it comes out experience level righta like the one the quotequote low sophistication guys just supposed to be the through that's not really aware of like hop how to be mute this properly and honestly there's like in a gym there's probably a 100 different exercises can do probably 200 more that can go raw so it's kind of it's kind of hard to expect anyone to really know exactly what they're doing first off the bat right so that's that's kind of like the first die and the second p is essentially to the expert right and you kind of break down exactly why it's better to do it the expert way right like you're going to see more gains less injuries etc etc righta just how to optimize the movement uh what do you see like I I would say you are probably I don't know if this is a fair uh way to say it but it's like are you the largest Asian-American gen Z lifting coach I would say I would say one of them yeah yeah I think in terms of like providing informative content uh I say I'm up there right I guess like how how do you frame is it I mean like the way you framed it like this is the this is the common I call it rookie way this is the Master Level way is it just delivering it the material in a different way that connects with Gen Z or is it gen Z coding it because you're obviously you're from that like era or generation or culture like what's different about coaching gen D than coaching anybody else because obviously art of Schwarz and ative he would buff 60 70 years ago or whatever 40 years ago yeah yeah so I actually think over the past even five years now the average base knowledge or the base knowledge for the average lifter has like drastically improved right right so I think at this point a lot of people know okay you know I need a weight train in order to build bustle if I want to lose weight I probably should be in a cal Gap set but how to do it that's kind of like the that's always been like the thing that people struggle with the most so I think partially because I came from short form contact I started with short form contact I know jzy in general like we want things quick we want things to the point if we really the Tik Tok the vine version exactly yeah kind of kind of that's that's a good way to explain it so for me I always think okay how can I like get my point across in the most efficient way possible that's also not just like super dry just me like you know explaining things right out right right right because probably prior there was channels like available like that on YouTube super dry like it's just like so te unless you're you're trying to be a trainer yourself there's just no way you're watching it right right right and like the information is high quality everything but sometimes like but sometimes like sometimes people aren't really uh interested in knowing like the reason why they just want to know how when you're dealing with aund different movements KN the reason why will stop you right like for some reason like trying to tell somebody the reason why something they should do it well for for some people whose like brain just can't handle it or really was never meant to contain that much information that'll actually stop them from executing on yeah yeah it's kind of like information overload and I mean like my goal is I don't want necessarily people to stop at my content right like CU like really Fitness is like an ice for you know like the ice for mod like sitting on the top and then there's I all deep into the bottom I feel like for me I'm like in between just dip you know I try to dip my dip my feet a little bit into the into the ocean little bit but I also pop out so people first see me and they're like okay like you know they start with my very short videos like okay this is how to do a Bice Pro correctly any I shouldn't bring be bringing my shoulder forward but then it might be like okay like actually oh if I if I turn around doing it instead of doing a cable curl facing cables if I turn around it's going to be more late in focus and that's technically be more optimized for biceps growth like it's kind of like a little bit of a rabbit hole that eventually go on right right right because isn't it like could you distill Fitness ADV advice down to like just eat clean lift heavy yeah yeah you it can in a in a at its most like base level right at the fundamental level yeah that pretty much sums it up to right right right I mean it's sort of like I mean for anything at a very very like macro level it's like for basketball it would be like train the right weight train a lot yeah yeah and I think also in terms of like let's say l accumulation it's uh it seems like there's a very very similar things that very successful business own all preach right right but sometimes it's more about okay like how do I actually get there right because a lot of people State wealth creation would be like uh get a bit large profit like have your um like Pro I don't know just have Revenue over expenses and then invest it right right right right but then what um obviously the granular details are like what investment models suit you what like time Horizon sear you what like uh risk profile or risk mitigation type techniques you or like I even generate Ren right right like what do I do for L this right right like I mean I I guess for myself man I I want you to grade one of my like workout techniques hear this I like to spend 40 minutes in the sauna in the morning and I'll bring and I'm not gonna say which building I live in because I'm not supposed to do this I I bring kettle bells into the the wooden Cedar sauna and it's true if I drop them I could destroy the wood but like I just need 40 minutes in there with some kettle bells and then that that's how I get like my full body listed because I could do the the full body uh thrusters or the squats and everything like that yeah yeah yeah okay so I would say without knowing the actual specific movements or whether you're doing like you know if you're doing the same exact thing every single day or not I'm just going to great at like a high level like kenle Bell you're doing kettle bells just likely falling into like the high-intensity cardio type of activity it's called hit right because I'm try right right right I'm not taking it to the max level like a hit class would be outside of the sauna sure but for some reason I think the sauna provides me that ability to like get sweaty immediately it already gets my heart rate up and once my heart rate is up for me I'm not saying for everybody but you know once I flesh out the program maybe it'll work for everybody but it's like I'm just the type of person where I needed to feel I need to feel like I'm in the jungle in the Chase and then I'm going and then I'm good okay so like it's almost like my body hack even though I could see like it's not recommended for everybody because not everybody should lift in the S because for some people without a uh super good heart ventricles or whatever it's going to give give him a heart attack or something yeah okay okay so I would say from the from a very Niche lens of like trying to maximize hypertrophy I would I would give it around a PO ey okay why I think in terms of overall so keeping in say keeping in mind that the fact that you're getting cardio away it's going to be good for cardiovascular health keep in mind that it's actually be something that you're sticking to and like you said it's something that you're actually more interested in because you know you feel like it's like it's something you can do every s day and you're actually consistent with right I'm looking forward to it exactly exactly cuz a lot of times I don't know like obviously everybody's different uh my brother loves calisthetics I was trying to lift really heavy with the barbells and stuff for a while but I wasn't I guess for me I was like looking at it like a responsibility but like my sauna time with the kettle bells I really am like man when is it like I'm you know I'm excited yeah yeah and I think because you're you're combining two things into one so you're being efficient with your time d i I bring that up to eight out of 10 bro just because you like you can't sit to what you actually personally preper because at the end of the day I think the biggest thing is just you're like consistent with something over time right because like let's let's imagine if you get to your dream physique it's like okay it's took x amount of years or maybe for x amount of months depending on like if you're genetics right where where your goals are or you're still going to have to maintain it after right so really the the key thing is like you want to find something you actually enjoy you can stick to long term so that like kind of like how um uh compound interest works over the long term it just just gets easier and easier for you to stick to it and as you're working out you're getting more repetitions in by proxy like you're over time you're probably going to get closer and closer to probably get closer and closer to your dream of Z right right and I guess this is sort of uh interesting because you know a lot about Finance because you were you were a finance major right so business I was information assistance and marketing right right and you know a lot about like uh different investment vehicles and isn't it sort of like you know how like everybody if you guys are in the business board you got a friend that got off like renting cars you got a friend that got rich off like renting houses what you got a guy uh guy who got rich doing airbnbs some people are more about Remodeling and flipping some people Remodel and keep them as rentals some people are into crypto some people do everything but it's more rare because it's too much information like some people you kind of got to get like rich on your passive income streams that like fit what you you know how to do right yeah yeah so like I I I had friends that were finance major some of them you know when Sim than like H some some hat right uh I think similar to Fitness it's like again the endle is just to make money here but it's like okay what route fits me the most right and I like to think Fitness is pretty much the same way right okay like you Mees it you really have to do is work train hard and E relatively clean but how do I get myself to do that on a consistent basis right both size dude a lot of people don't know maybe they're born I mean I would say the only people who never study this who kind of execute on it it's somebody was like born into a family that got rich doing one of these things commercial real estate whatever whatever whatever and they kind of like learned it from their parents and they're like oh yeah this works I'm G just stick to it but everybody else whose parents like in a way didn't do that you're out researching trialing and erroring like you know what I mean like you're you're jumping into this investment vehicle uh I did this for a few years it doesn't suit me and then some people they find even something as volatile as like forx that's what suits them but obviously for a lot of people I don't think that that suits them but for a few people that's going to be what makes them Rich yeah so I guess like uh as your job in your program obviously that you have a Styler path is that to help people find that or are you more recommending something where you're like this is my method tried and true I see so I think it's a little bit of in between right because there's like each each individual there's some sort of customization that has to go on in order for them to S to something right was wor on the me plan as well as like the programming at so what I try to do is like I just try to I just try to make it more I just try to I just try to have I just try to have them get to their goals more efficiently so let's say if their goal is to optimize for muscle growth only and that's like really all they care about on that case right it makes sense for them to be and small c c plus with their lead bul and then on the workout program on the workout programing side I'm giving them like a high bound slit but if it's let's say some some person that you know he's a dad who's already working he has kids to also manage he doesn't have a lot of time for the gym Mayon would have scale back and give him something more quotequote like bare bows or more like very jam-packed into a condensed amount of time that he can actually stick to gu right right right right I guess Switching gears here out of like Fitness influencer mode let's just talk about being a Thai American right now which obviously we had talked off camera like there was not a big Thai American community in America like it's like microscopic did you know that out of a 100 asian-americans one of them is C Thai American statistically but it's going to be 11% of the restaurants yeah so it goes to show you that people love Thai food by the way it's probably the most overrepresented no it is actually is so the most overrepresented Asian Foods H it's like a sushi because a lot of non Japanese people open up sushi restaurants and even like non- tii people sometimes open up Thai restaurants Thai people open up sushi too you've seen the Thai and Sushi restaurants espect in the South like Texas especially in rural like San Antonio you find a ton of like pad tie Sushi omes and a Beni hanana Allin one I mean I guess like what was that like do how different is it because I'm from the largest not not only am I from the largest group of people on Earth well now India's like supplanted China is the most populated but for a long time my my life China was the most populated group on the in the world it was also the biggest Asian yeah and then tide was the smallest Asian pretty much at least it seems that way in America it really seems that way and you know I I don't want to speak for all the time Americans because I feel like dude you you see you're you take two time Americans and put them in a room like they might have like extremely different interests I think it comes down to there's I think for you're saying there's no archetype of a time yeah whereas like a Filipino it's like man he might be a DJ and he might like be a nurse too like that's it's archetype piing you know might play UK when they're growing up stuff like that yeah there there's no like uh I guess there's no big TI role model for all Tha Americans Aspire towards and because of that there's no like um least Thai American culture like I don't even know what that would look like right so I think for my experience it's it's more more so if you're a Thai American and you're let's say you're growing up with uh like be it friends or Filipino Community like you know those are keep those are the other issues you interact with might just kind of adopt more of their you know their interests their Hobbies um on the other hand what would what would the tying version of Kevin wi be like let's say for example he grow around a lot of vits and he joins the Kevin win let's just think of what the tide version of Kevin H is just face off the last thing though bro oh so you're saying it yeah like instead of Kevin wi would be Kevin bro I thing my tie thing about Tai people no one has the same last name like two different families can't have the same last name legal oh really yeah yeah so every Ty person is that to pre prevent inbreeding or is that no that's what I was thinking logically because that way you don't have to Tech the family tree like I don't know I don't know the reasoning but I'm pretty sure it's not that okay um I think someone isn't it because like when different people came to Thailand let's say for example Thai Chinese and they wanted to become tie they had to take take on ch ch a Tha last and they would take on something that was like a combination of they made it longer and longer technically that that includes me or my father because like Bas well my last name would have been Lim a am oh right uh but we actually spoke on a family of friends last day uh cuz at the time yeah it's like some like some sort of uh discrimination you might been to right right right they have like assimilation laws right like like or something like that I'm not that closely tied but like I'm not that closely familiar but it uh something like that right right right so we're pulling up here on here high right now which is interestingly enough like kind of like I want to say almost maybe like some Chinese Thai food some of it yeah so go do you want to be a Thai American influencer like do you want that to be part of your identity do you want people to know like yo I'm Thai American guys I know there's not a lot of us maybe I'm assuming a lot of you guys' families may have been involved in the restaurant industry at some point right yeah that was that true for your family as well yeah it was it was and no definitely do like I feel like because there's so few time Americans like I growing up I feel like I wish I saw had more like time amican roas at least like kind of somewhat give me make me be more proud of being Tha early on right it wasn't until later when I actually grew up like what did you think about being Tha growing up was it informed by people just talking about pad tie to you or was it let's be honest St America a lot of Hangover lady [ __ ] jokes or were you like no I like I would go back to Thailand growing up I know it's dope now everybody knows Thailand is dope in 2025 but people didn't know five 10 years ago for sure I think the biggest thing was food like back in the day everyone would be like oh yeah like oh you're Tha Dre I love P Tai like that's like the extent of their knowledge and then obviously they're not to say like the Le boyless they like we friends try makeing acing jokes did they did they ever did they did you ever want to lean into it like yeah call me pad Tyler pad I I don't do that pck right right right right right but some people do right they kind of like play into like they're like oh yeah that's what everybody knows like Pat Tai my name's Tyler I'm sure there do you have any thoughts on like what you want to say to Young Thai Americans that are watching now and it's like yo they have you to look up too you know I know like um Tim deag was TI you know what I mean like I mean I think big thing is I americ you're you're in the unique position where you you probably don't have a lot of external pressures on the social side to know go a certain path so for I think I think the big thing is you can lean on to individuality really pursue your specific interests and of course like represent Tha of course represent T at first represent Thailand in a great way west world like I guess what do you think it would be you think like a tide archetype it's different because you know how like I would say broadly guys listen we talked about this on the channel before so I'm not scared to say it like they're sort of like at the most broadest level there's like East Asian stereotypes and then Southeast Asian stereotypes but I wouldn't say the Tai is necessarily F either of them yeah yeah it's it's kind of its own thing yeah know and man it's so hard because the caly Dude takes type people are so different just because no there's no like really cohesive culture but again that puts us you in the unique position to actually like create that and you I'm I'm excited to see what that would look like and you know what the funny thing is after getting to know you and like more like people like I almost feel like my person of my own identity growing up was I think it was a lot more pushpull but I feel like it's kind of settled to what like Itali American identity is too because I saw both sides like I would be like with Hyper academic overachievers on Sunday like at my Chinese church but I would hang out with a lot of my friends in my city growing up that were Southeast Asian it's sure a lot of their parents were refugees and their older cousins or older brothers and sisters had saw some like really really like crazy stuff you know what I mean and I was kind of like triangulating yeah oscill and that's sort of like because he up a lot of ties too right yeah yeah it's weird like you're you're salty phasi and there's some like stereotypes like go with that but at the same time it's like why not fit in with the actual souie pH because there's not necessarily like the refugee experience right exactly exactly so anyway guys we're gonna finish up uh the rest of Tuk Tok talk with some here high oh my goodness I'm so excited now we've arrived here at here high this probably one of the most viral Foody spots especially if the Asian Community because Asians tend to like Super Value Seafood right for sure what are we looking at all right so over here we have Manis with Kum with rice then this one here it's crazy because these with the shell on they look like aliens they look like Predators like where going then this one is uh spring roll pool so crab spring rolls right here okay and Hau this is crab fried rice this is really what they're really for like this is the thing you have to get and then this it comes with they call njim right so basically like a different sauce but I feel like a lot of time people also call like sea sea sauce oh talk about this gigantic SP have this what is this giant shrimp is it there's a River Park yeah yeah this is you I thought it was a lot yeah dude this one is so viral sha lot definitely a lot of Chinese here this is what it's probably be my favorite Kio so crab on it and guys listen this is just on side just got three fried eggs for a dollar a dollar for three of them for po rning extra man let's let's just let's just uh eat this yeah yeah but I was going to say oh oh we got one last day we got the stir fried shrimp yes we Fri chili saltum yes it's like salt and chili and garlic I believe oh yeah AR you guys this would be a CB scoll Go For It Go got some people EA you know it's interesting because you're expecting a flavor explosion with the fried egg R skin but it's it's pretty subtle yeah yeah I think clean and Ty there's a word called out lean it kind of means kind of like greasy too fatty right Tai people they generally describe good food as m m is not greas not greasy and not fatty oh okay this is really mainly what have been your favorite things because now you're making several trips a year back to Bai even though like we said your family is from a different Province right I mean like what is your favorite things to eat and what is your favorite things to do because I think that Thailand but specifically Bangkok is in such a special era and it's like you as a Tha American it's like why not come back you can come back with your parents and Etc like yeah I think big right well obviously from you to gy and like dude Bok has one of the nicest gyms I've ever seen when at any tier level tier right so there's more like bodybuilder hardcore grimy ones in uh at musle factory but then there's also super nice stuff like Fitness First uh virgin attive ore you can find machines that you can't even find like out in or this Ace like angelum squats or something yeah angelum squats are there as you see like some really cool like uh CeX machine VI y I have the manag all right I got to ask you my final two questions three questions what do you think about like so many like first of all influencers but I guess specifically like Fang influencers or just like fangs in Thailand which are obviously like white people often times from Austria Australia England not not really as many Americans to be honest like not a lot of Americans make it to this part of the world yeah yeah I mean I think the big thing is all right like as long as they remain respectful to the culture and they don't just like paint Tha Thailand as like this like stereotypical hang over type of scene you know they're actually being authentic with stuff they posting and actually go to places likeor I where PR much the opposite where you see the hang I don't really have a problem with it you right right tongor ecite is very non n whatever is n is it's just not like that yeah quite I think it's a shame that like the general stereotype here is like you know at least for more front or is oh you know like at least the subset of them are thinking here is this is where like you know you get easy play it's like G CD and stuff but I think Bangkok has so much more to offer I think it's that's really erent even even among everyone there's that actually are aware of sub P right and I think a lot of like the younger H craters they're definitely doing a better jot than let's say like I guess uh what do you think about like the non there's so many like non tied but also Asian-American or from Asia Japan Korea China creators in Bangkok yeah it's similar right I mean naturally just because especially if Asian-American like they never understand it like you know just they kind of understand how to respect culture lot they know how it feels like so it's like culture could be CED out by the most like stereotypes right so stere yeah so they understand here like you know Ty probably cath probably has more op that I guess last but not least what are your interactions with like local Thai people like because obviously your Thai American your parents are from Thailand I'm imagining they left a few decades ago you're coming back you speak TI but not at a 10 out of 10 level yeah I have a American accent is what what I oh and going to speak tie so it's funny like I say half the people you know I try to speak tie with them know they respond back in eng like man right but the other half you know they they they're curious they're like okay like oh like no you you speak really good like they might not even know because because there's not a huge diaspora one thing I noticed here in Thailand is like if you're Asian speaking English they're like Hong Kong Singapore whereas like when I was in Vietnam because they have such a gigantic gascar in the W they immediately know they would be like oh PQ or like like that's like so they know because maybe their cousin is that yeah yeah whereas here it's almost like some people don't know a single person who moved to the West no for like I think the the idea of a Tha americ is actually very foreign to Tai because like even when I'm explaining to them like oh like you know you I was born in America but my parents like you know they Russy or Bor Bor in Thailand they moved over then I was born there they like they won't understand the first time they'll be like oh wait so like you're like you're like a wasan kid you're like like no no no I'm not it's like oh okay so like oh it's all you went to the US to study and then you you're coming back oh no actually I was born like I was born in America so a l of them actually don't really understand the concept of American say very neat know I think that that species the unique nature of Thailand like it doesn't have the same story as almost every other country in Asia there wasn't an intense Civil War or intense involvement in World War II um yeah it's just like a I guess that's why it's so chill here right hey guys ear please just end off on the river pra and give us your view and then that's it for this T all all right let's do it follow me on TI time YouTube at Tyler path and IG at aeta that's my last name p you type in Tyler pad you all right you guys it there that's it for this episode of chuk chuk talks here live in Bangkok till next time we out peace