Kishon Richards made it a top priority to assist his clients in achieving the most exceptional fitness goals, no matter their age, in the little time he was on Earth.
Justin Butler, a lifelong friend, said, “Kishon wanted nothing more than to share health and happiness with others.” He would encourage clients of all stripes and ridiculed the concept of someone being too old to accomplish anything.
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Kishon Richards was a fitness trainer who encouraged others to achieve their utmost potential. He was 28 years old.
The 28-year-old transformed his passion for weight training into a part-time position as a certified personal trainer, and he became known as the instructor who told everyone that they were never too old to achieve their greatest ambition.
Butler recalled when Richards told one of his 46-year-old clients that her age should not prevent her from performing more challenging yoga and handstands. He also encouraged her to pursue a career as a yoga instructor, which she has now done.
“Kishon’s objective was to teach individuals to appreciate themselves through self-discipline and fitness, and he accomplished it in his brief life whether he realized it or not,” Butler added.
Richards, a friend of his who has more than 10,000 Instagram followers and is now a personal trainer, got into the profession because he loves fitness and wants to assist others in achieving their goals.
“He did profit from it, but he did it more because he genuinely liked doing it,” Butler added. “When people benefited from his training, he was overjoyed.”
In addition, he had a plan to establish his own gym in the near future.
“He was very enthused,” said Butler. “He had a passion that is exceedingly rare in this world.”
At the age of four, his family moved from Dominica to the United States. His mother, Olive Emmanuel, thinks he was always attempting to demonstrate that he could be successful because he spent the first years of his life in Dominica before moving to the United States at four.
“He was the child of an immigrant, and he wanted to show that he could do better and succeed,” says Emmanuel.
According to his family and friends, before he died, he had overcome many of his problems. He struggled with melancholy and his loved ones and friends said that just before his death, he had addressed several issues.
Kishon Richards motivated his clients to pursue their greatest fitness ambitions, regardless of their age.
“He had a lot of internal conflicts that he was dealing with, and he had most of them beaten,” Butler said. “He’d been expressing his happiness lately.”
They even claimed that Richards informed them that the final month of his life was the finest he’d had in five years.
“It’s even more difficult that he was overcoming so much and then just vanished,” added sister Keydella Fuller.
Because he wanted people to realize that his life was far from perfect, in 2015 Richard started documenting his fitness journey on Instagram.
“He wanted to express his difficulties and depression with the world,” Butler added. “He desired people to recognize that while everything appeared bright and beautiful from the outside, on the inside they had no idea what was going on.”
Many of these Instagram followers looked up to Richards as a role model, and even those who didn’t know him personally had nice things to say about him, according to Butler.
“I’ve had a lot of messages on Instagram from people complimenting me,” he continued. “People who had only brief encounters with him mentioned that he made quite an impression.”
His younger sister said he had a good influence on everyone who met him.
“He had a big impact on me,” Fuller said. “You will remember him if you met Kishon.”
In his honor, a GoFundMe campaign has been established so that his family may continue to support health and mental wellness programs in his memory.
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