3 Things We Loved About The Premiere Of “Pump Up The Healthy Love”

Do Hyeon Joong (Lee Jun Young) lives for health. A former bodybuilding champion, he’s now the passionate proprietor of a 24-hour fitness center. He lives by three ideas: train, eat clear, and worship your physique as a temple. Lee Mi Ran (Apink’s Jeong Eun Ji) is an workplace employee who enrolls herself in Hyeon Joong’s health program after a latest break-up. As their worlds collide, it appears there may be extra on the menu than barbells and dumbbells. Right here’s what you possibly can anticipate from the premiere of “Pump Up the Healthy Love”!

Warning: spoilers from episodes 1-2 forward.

Do Hyeon Joong’s health verse

Do Hyeon Joong eats, breathes, and sleeps train. He’s overtly enthusiastic in terms of figuring out. Obsessive about health to such some extent and given his blunt character, he doesn’t assume twice earlier than he begins itemizing all the pieces that’s unsuitable with an individual’s physique composition. He’s gruff to the purpose that he’s nearly comical in how he tells everybody that their physique speaks of the life they life.

Hyeon Joong’s declare to fame is his personal transformation. Born as an underweight little one who weighed slightly over a 1 kilogram (roughly 2.2 kilos) dumbbell, it was by his sheer grit and willpower that he grew to become the proud recipient of the David of America Bodybuilding award.

Nevertheless, Hyeon Joong, being who he’s, had fortunately walked out of the competitors after taking dwelling the trophy since he had confirmed his level and there wasn’t a lot for him to do. The incident has turn out to be a lore amongst the bodybuilders’ affiliation.

He now runs a 24-hour fitness center in Seoul, however with an iron fist, and in terms of train, he doesn’t tolerate excuses. Hyung Joong additionally has an uncanny skill to smell junk meals from a mile. There are a number of comical sequences as he will get into fight mode each time he sees a consumer dishonest on their weight loss program. If not working after folks dishonest on their diets, he’s itemizing the macros and micro vitamins of meals, a lot to the shock of individuals round him.

If there’s a division the place Hyeon Joong is unable to attain, it’s courting and relationships. Although handsome, nicely proportioned, and with a chiseled physique, Hyeon Joong shouldn’t be wanting admirers. He’s unsuccessful in terms of the issues of the center, and the fault lies with him. His relationships don’t final lengthy because the object of his devotion is his exercise schedule. As he’s dumped but once more, he tells his girlfriend who’s breaking apart with him that he’s not the one to cry since it might solely mess his physique composition. Tears result in muscle loss, so he isn’t the one to waste his physique salt on anything.

However there’s a facet of him that folks don’t get. Hyeon Joong needs to empower folks. He’s usually heard mumbling, “What the fat,” which for him is the final word insult.

Lee Jun Younger will get the beats of his character. Although he’s obtuse to the purpose of being inflexible, he’s cutely comical in his antics. His straight face as he delivers the funniest traces are sure to crack you up with laughter and even drop the sweet bar in your hand.

Mi Ran, a relatable oddball

Lee Mi Ran (Jeong Eun Ji) is a little bit of an oddball however is endearing in her personal quirky means. We’re first launched to her as she pitifully pleads along with her boyfriend in the course of the road. Oblivious to the stares of these round her, Mi Ran needs to know why is she being dumped. There is no such thing as a filter with Mi Ran—she is simple and has her coronary heart in the fitting place. Sure, she is a folks pleaser, however she thinks that’s what makes her likable.

Mi Ran works at a journey company, and her boyfriend, who can be a colleague, tends to stroll throughout her. The ultimate straw is when he doesn’t assume it is crucial for her to know his determination to switch to a different division. Damage, she asks him his causes for not telling her in addition to for rejecting her on their date. He dismissively tells her that it’s as a result of he finds her bodily unattractive.

Mi Ran is shocked, and it appears all the pieces and everybody round her are rubbing the identical messaging in her face. Irritated after a reasonably humorous goof up along with her sister and her sister’s boyfriend, Mi Ran winds up in a membership, considering it’s a singles bar. She lets her hair down and fortunately sways to the loud music, solely to find that she has landed up in the course of a Zumba class in progress.

Embarrassed, she runs, solely to run into Hyeon Joong, the fitness center proprietor, who tells her to enroll for his health program in his gruff means. Why is the world obsessed along with her weight? That is maybe the thought working in poor Mi Ran’s head.

Mi Ran has by no means labored out in her life, and the fitness center is actually not the place for her relationship illness. Just a few days later, she is on the fitness center and signed up for Hyung Joong’s three-month health program. In any case, how worse can it get than the state of affairs already at hand?

Jeong Eun Ji as Mi Ran is actual and relatable. She likes to assist folks and makes everybody snug, regardless that it might be on the expense of her personal self-respect. However regardless, she is quirky, humorous, and forthright.

Mi Ran’s journey on the fitness center

Hyeon Joong was a witness to Mi Ran’s humiliation, from her meltdown on the streets as she begs her boyfriend to stick with her for the evening to the humiliating alternate when she is snubbed for her seems. His disgust is obvious, and in his typical means, he goes to her boyfriend and caustically tells him he shouldn’t palm off his insecurities onto one other. It appears Hyeon Joong has figured one thing out which Mi Ran hasn’t.

However his intention is to get the distraught Mi Bumped into the fitness center. He had pushed a flyer into her hand when he first met her. And it isn’t after just a few conferences that Mi Ran decides to go to the fitness center. However there may be an exorbitant value for Hyeon Joong’s “Director Do’s total life care service program.”

Mi Ran doesn’t assume it’s price her time or cash to put money into it. Pondering over her choices, she makes a costume buy on a whim, which has now turn out to be her raison d’être. This costume might be her fight outfit to put on to her colleague’s wedding ceremony, the place her ex-boyfriend might be current.

Mi Ran informs Hyeon Joong that she is recreation for his exhaustive and intensive health plan, however he wants to ensure that she’s going to be capable of match into the fight costume, to which he confidently agrees, initially mistaking it for a fight outfit within the literal sense of the phrase.

Thus begins Mi Ran’s health journey with squats, push-ups, burpees, lunges, and presses beneath Hyeon Joong’s hawk-like gaze. Despite the fact that she will get stiff and sore, which any one that has been by way of the grind can really feel, she achieves the final word reward. The kilos soften unbeknownst to Mi Ran, who has been so preoccupied with lacking out on these little bites of her favourite meals. And the costume which wouldn’t go previous her ankles lastly suits. Mi Ran is ecstatic. Excited, she comes up with a reasonably unusual request.

She needs Hyeon Joong to accompany her to the marriage. Her colleagues at work have seen Hyeon Joong’s messages asking her about her weight loss program and assume he’s the brand new man in her life. A lot to her shock, he agrees. On the day of the marriage, Mi Ran discovers her sister has sneaked out along with her fight costume. As Mi Ran swiftly borrows one thing from her sister’s closet, Hyeon Joong warns her that she seems uncomfortable, as if pre-empting a catastrophe.

All goes nicely, and her former boyfriend even walks as much as her and offers her admirable glances. However when the lights go off, the costume is emblazoned with one thing reasonably embarrassing. Mi Ran’s peak embarrassment is additional amplified with the costume falling aside. And it’s Hyeon Joong who involves her rescue.

As we undergo her journey of exercising, one can not wait to see the place the adventures of Mi Ran on the fitness center will lastly lead her to. And can Hyeon Joong lastly perceive that oxytocin is not only what he feels when he lifts the shiny dumbbells on the fitness center? Solely the following episodes will inform!

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Puja Talwar is a Soompi author with a powerful 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 just a few. You may observe her on @puja_talwar7 on Instagram.