3 Things We Learned About Lee Jun Young In Episodes 3-4 Of “Pump Up The Healthy Love”

You must give it to “Pump Up the Healthy Love” for making you be ok with exercising. One will get an adrenaline rush as Do Hyeon Joong (Lee Jun Young) makes his shoppers, soar, curl, lunge, and squat whereas telling them the deserves of consuming clear.

Issues have gotten a bit tense at Hyeon Joong’s 24-Hour Health club. They don’t have many members, and even Lee Mi Ran (Jeong Eun Ji), who had enrolled for Hyeon Joong’s particular coaching program, needs a refund. So as to add to the stress, a state-of-the artwork gymnasium has opened reverse to the 24-Hour Health club and is poaching their members.

Hyeon Joong is in no temper to flex. Is it a case of all bark and no chew? However this time we get to be taught concerning the individual beneath all of the muscle within the newest episodes of “Pump Up the Healthy Love.”

Warning: spoilers from episodes 3 and 4 forward! 

1. Hyeon Joong’s unperturbed face card

Hyeon Joong’s place as director is in jeopardy. The gymnasium has barely any new members and a swanky new gymnasium has opened its doorways reverse to theirs.

There’s additionally Choi Rosa (Lee Mi Do), an worker on the gymnasium. Rosa is thought for her individuals abilities and tries arduous to usher in new members. She warns Hyeon Joong that if he drives individuals away and is unable to get in new members, he’s out. However he tells her that there will probably be members. In any case, there isn’t a higher coach than hm.

So as to add to their woes, Roy (Kim Kwon), who owns the brand new gymnasium, has beef with Hyeon Joong. It’s obvious there’s historical past between the 2. He’s passive aggressive with Hyeon Joong, threatening him about his secret, that the physique he so proudly flaunts is just not naturally constructed. Is there one thing Hyeon Joong is hiding?

He’s unfazed and poker confronted, and it’s clear doesn’t assume a lot about Roy or his threats. However when a few of his members, together with Mi Ran, head there for a session, Hyeon Joong is curious to know what the entire fuss is about. He even goes undercover to test on Mi Ran and the power, and his expressions are comically cute. Hyeon Joong believes in not simply speaking the speak however strolling the stroll, and health is just not a enterprise however a lifestyle for him.

Mi Do warns him that aside from his high-handed angle with members, the spartan services on the gymnasium make them no match with opponents, however Hyeon Joong doesn’t care. In line with the gossip mill, it was additionally his love for health which drove a wedge between him and the massive love of his life. Hyeon Joong, being who he’s, has additionally taken that on the chin and moved on… by figuring out.

2. Taking an opportunity on individuals

Hyeon Joong believes in individuals greater than they imagine in themselves. The 24-Hour Health club might not have many members, however Hyeon Joong’s focus is to assist carry out the most effective in these figuring out at his gymnasium.

Kang Cheol Nam (Jo Jung Chi) is underweight and has by no means been in a position to train in his life. Typically bullied by individuals given his small body, Cheol Nam joins Hyeon Joong’s gymnasium after he hears Hyeon Joong’s apt evaluation of his physique composition and deficiencies. Hyeon Joong devotes himself to coaching Cheol Nam. In his personal brusque method, he encourages and pushes him past the boundaries of his self-imposed limits. It’s a lot in order that he even asks Mi Ran to assist him work on Cheol Nam’s urge for food for the reason that man has no style for meals, resulting in a hilarious set of scenes the place Mi Ran guides him to numerous scrumptious eating places whereas instructing him severely.

The technique pays off, and Cheol Nam develops confidence when he bravely takes on his neighborhood bully. Grateful to Hyeon Joong for his religion in him, Cheol Nam recommends the gymnasium to individuals, together with a widely known heavy weight champion.

Retaining his place as director, Hyeon Joong asks Rosa to stop managing the gymnasium. He needs her to enter the feminine bodybuilders competitors. Although the remainder assume he’s being petty and desires to drive Rosa away, it’s something however that. Conscious that Rosa is a certified coach, he needs her to improve her abilities, believing her potential and talents greater than she does in herself. Pushing her to coach tougher, he’s endearing as he helps create the right exercise atmosphere for her. He even willingly shares his personal insights from the bodybuilding competitors with Rosa. A cute second is when, given his bulk, he’s relatively fluid in his actions when he teaches her learn how to pose.

Rosa isn’t impressed along with his considerations and relatively finds him overbearing and will get continuously irritated. However it’s her personal insecurity which has made her angsty. She is way older than the common contestants and thinks age is issue which fits in opposition to her. Hyeon Joong thinks in any other case—that it’s not age however expertise and talents which matter. He’s the loudest cheerer as Rosa takes place on stage on the competitors.

Hyeon Joong additionally wins Mi Ran’s vote of confidence. Although Mi Ran wished a refund, she modifies her thoughts. She discovers that her as soon as weak physique is method stronger after the exercises below Hyeon Joong’s steering. Evaluating him to the flaky Roy, who exhibits no real interest in shoppers or their exercises, Mi Ran is again on the 24-hour well being membership, and he or she thinks aloud that Hyeon Jeong has extra religion in individuals than they do in themselves.

3. The brawny man-child

Given his sheer dimension and disciplinarian angle, one wouldn’t need to mess with Hyeon Joong. Nevertheless, he’s a bit misplaced boy beneath his powerful exterior and has essentially the most light coronary heart. He feels accountable for individuals, and the one method he can present his concern is making them keep on with their weight-reduction plan and train since that’s what he is aware of finest.

We see a delicate aspect to him when he’s upset for Mi Ran after her look on the marriage ceremony goes horribly fallacious. Although he’s unable to console her, he tries his finest to stop her from binging on junk meals as a result of he doesn’t need her to waste her hard-earned efforts. He cares however can not specific!

One other second is when his discomfort is clear after he assume he might have pushed Rosa too arduous and triggered her damage. Even Mi Ran is shocked to see the stoic Hyeon Joong breaking his clear consuming rule and devouring fried hen. He blames himself for Rosa not eager to take part within the competitors, which he thinks she has an amazing probability to win. The fried hen binge is his model of an emotional outburst.

Mi Ran makes one other startling discovery about Hyeon Joong. He’s actual softie and will get simply spooked. Hyeon Joong is afraid of the darkish and is petrified that the gymnasium could also be haunted. She had seen him run for his life when he errors her white sweatshirt for a ghost.

The person can also be a romantic at coronary heart. Mi Ran by probability discovers amongst his huge volumes of books on health, anatomy, and weight-reduction plan that he a is a sucker for love tales. Hyeon Joong is certainly a wierd juxtaposition of tough and hard on one aspect and delicate and tender on the opposite.

He additionally appears to be warming as much as Mi Ran in addition to he often turns to her for assist. As these two buddy up, and with the gymnasium again on its toes, there’s a new customer on the well being membership. A bit boy runs towards Hyeon Joong and calls him Daddy, a lot to his shock and people round him. Is Hyeon Joong’s previous catching up with him? Has Mi Ran and Hyeon Joong’s romance been nipped within the bud even earlier than it began? We are able to’t wait to search out out within the coming episodes.

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Puja Talwar is a Soompi author with a robust Yoo Yeon Seok and Lee Junho bias. A very long time Ok-drama fan, she loves devising alternate situations to the narratives. She has interviewed Lee Min Ho, Gong Yoo, Cha Eun Woo, and Ji Chang Wook to call a number of. You’ll be able to comply with her on @puja_talwar7 on Instagram.