NEWS
The Best Beach Workout Class In Santa Monica — Beach Living Los Angeles (Aug 2022)
Meet Sonki Hong | Fitness Company Owner — SHOUTOUT LA (Nov 2020)
Find the Workout that Keeps You Motivated at Sonki Fitness — The LA Loyolan (Dec 2019)
Be Fit and Fabulous in Hawaii — Travel Channel (2019)
The Real Deal: Sonki Fitness — Exercise LA (Feb 2019)
Meet Sonki Hong of Sonki Fitness in Santa Monica — VoyageLA (Mar 2017)
The Black Book of Hollywood Diet Secrets — by Kym Douglas and Cindy Pearlman
Get in Shape on Vacation: The Best Destination Fitness Boot Camps and Retreats — Healthy Travel (Feb 2017)
5 Super Quick Workouts for Girls Who Just Can’t — Seventeen (Dec 2015)
Look Hot in a Hurry: Fast Total-Body Weekend Workout — Fitness (2015)
Quality Time with the Bro’s — HomeEscape (Sep 2015)
“One of Top 4 recommended trips in 2015” — CBS WATCH (Feb 2015)
“10 Fitness Retreats You Should Try” — Livingly (2015)
“The Best Fitness Vacations for Women” — BecomeGorgeous.com (Apr 2013)
“Best Group Retreat 2013” — Greatist (Dec 2012)
“Top LA Personal Trainer: Sonki Hong” — Examiner (Feb 2012)
“Life in the Self-improvement Bubble” — Santa Monica Daily Press (Feb 2012)
“The 60-Second Secret to Your Best Body” — Seventeen (Mar 2011)
“From West Point to World Fitness Champion” — Korean American Christian Media (Oct 2010)
“20 Guy Trips That Will Change Your Life” — Men’s Health (Aug 2010)
“Ke$ha Works It Out with Sonki Hong” — Just Jared (Jun 2010)
“Top 8 Places to Take a Vacation and Lose Weight” — MSN (Apr 2008)
“Enlisting in BOOT CAMP” — Los Angeles Sports & Fitness (Oct 2007)
“Train Man” — KoreAm Journal (Jul 2006)
“Interview with Former Army Capt Sonki Hong” — Today’s Officer (Mar 2006)
“Staying on Track with Exercise and Nutrition Through the Holidays” — Los Angeles M.D. News (Dec 2005)
“Not Another Boot Camp” — Los Angeles Sports & Fitness (Jun 2005)
“A Revolution in the Boot Camp Philosophy” — Sunfare Newsletter (Feb 2005)
“Sonki Fitness Founder to Perform Extreme Fitness for Charity” — Press Release (Jul 14, 2004)
“Finding Your Fit” — Santa Monica Magazine (Jul 2004)
“Fitness guru leads off ‘Memory Walk” — Santa Monica Daily Press (Oct 2, 2003)
“Sonki Fitness runs 132 miles for charity” — Santa Monica Daily Press (Jul 30, 2003)
“If Sonki Hong, arguably the most physically fit man in the world, can do what he does on only three hours training a week, one has to wonder what he might do if he trained three to four hours a day like most successful athletes.” — The Honolulu Advertiser (Oct 22, 2000)
“Sonki Hong…performed a total of 130 strength repetitions, including 36 bar dips [with added weight], and ran his three miles in 17:27 for a world record STREND factor of 7.449.” — The New York Times (Jun 1, 1999)
“It seems the only competitions Capt. Sonki Hong doesn’t win are the ones he doesn’t enter.” — Soldiers magazine (Feb 1999)
“If [Michael] Jordan were to be matched up with Sonki Hong in a multi-discipline physical fitness contest the smart money would be on Hong.” –The Honolulu Advertiser (Jun 14, 1998)
“Read [Sonki Hong’s fitness scores], and either weep or use them as motivation to get in shape.” — Men’s Fitness (Apr 1998)
“Among all the athletes and fitness buffs…[Hong] may very well be the most all-around physically fit person in the world considering the fact that he is the reigning world champion in the STREND Fitness Challenge.” — The Honolulu Advertiser (Jun 15, 1997)