Most fitness products make you a promise. And most of the time, six weeks later, they're collecting dust in a corner.
Khalil Zahar built something different.
He was finishing his master's degree in Toronto when he walked into a boxing gym and fell completely in love — training four or five times a week, getting into the best shape of his life. Then he noticed something almost absurd: even elite-level boxers were still counting their punches with a clicker.
An engineer saw a problem. FightCamp was born.
What started as punch-tracking technology for Olympic and professional athletes became one of the most talked-about connected fitness platforms in the world. Today FightCamp has raised nearly $100 million in funding, backed by Mike Tyson, Floyd Mayweather, Georges St-Pierre, and Francis Ngannou. Two-thirds of its users had never boxed a day in their life.
But that's not why we called him.
We called him because of the first responders — the firefighters, cops, paramedics, and dispatchers who found something in FightCamp that a gym membership and a treadmill never could give them. Training that doesn't just build a body. Training that prepares the mind for chaos, processes stress instead of storing it, and builds the kind of composure that keeps you steady when everything around you isn't.
In this episode, we hear directly from first responders who train with FightCamp — and we sit down with the man who built it to find out why it works, where it's going, and what it could do for you.
If you know you should be training but haven't found the right thing yet — this one's for you.
Responder Resilience is produced for first responders and mental health professionals. New episodes on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Facebook, and LinkedIn. All past episodes at ResponderTV.com.
**Resources for Responder Wellness:**
• Book: Helping the Helpers https://a.co/d/dm0VS4Q
• Free App: CRACKYL http://crackyl.respondertv.com
• Fitness: FightCamp (code RR10 for 10% off) http://joinfightcamp.com/rr
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Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/responder-resilience/id1747804839
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Ya38lJn9YAaDHkSwZmX18
Our website with past episodes and more: https://www.respondertv.com/
FightCamp:
https://joinfightcamp.com/shop
https://www.facebook.com/groups/joinfightcamp/
https://www.instagram.com/fightcamp/
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