Emi Wong

Emily Wong Lok-ting (; born January 1992 She exclusively attended local Hong Kong schools. Her primary school's instruction was in Chinese, while her secondary school's instruction was in English except for the two subjects of Chinese and Chinese history. She has one brother who is two years her junior. On the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination, she received 7As.

Wong graduated in 2013 from the University of Hong Kong, where she studied global management and international business. In her first job after graduating from university at the alcoholic beverages company Pernod Ricard, Wong worked as a headhunter, a role she did not like because it required a salesperson personality that she felt she lacked. At Pernod Ricard, Wong was a management trainee. Her company sent her to do work in South Korea in 2015. She later joined the Hong Kong branch of Lululemon Athletica, where she worked in the social media division for two years until around August 2018. As she did social media, she received an advanced personal trainer certification.

She had an appendectomy around one year following graduation. After the surgery, she experienced complications that required her to visit the hospital where she had stomach cramps, typically following eating. On Instagram, she viewed posters' photos of what they looked like prior to and following their workout regimen. The content drove Wong, who was then at the start of her 20s, into exercising twice to thrice daily with the aim of having "toned abs". She sought other opportunities to make a living such as becoming a part-time personal trainer. Unable to allot sufficient time to being a personal trainer, she considered becoming a YouTuber after a friend told her how it was an opportunity to make money, and a coworker supported the idea. Her initial motivation was to make an additional HK$2,000 to HK$3,000 (US$250 to US$380) every month through the YouTube channel. Her channel originally went by the name "Emi Wong • StayFitandTravel". Within one year of creating the channel, she received 500,000 subscribers which prompted her to resign from her social media role to become a full-time YouTuber in August 2018.

Wong's exercise videos receive the most views. Her high-intensity interval training video, which was 10 minutes long, was watched more than eight million times. In a 2020 interview with the South China Morning Post, Wong attributed her channel's success to how the workouts could be completed at people's residences. She said that the videos, which lasted between 10 and 20 minutes long, could be done by people who lacked the time or money to pay daily visits to the gym. Elle said of her videos, "The movements are not difficult and it will be very impressive after practice, even beginners who are just getting started in fitness can keep up". At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, she posted a video where she used a carpet sweeper to do lunges and bottles of laundry detergent to do squats. Telling her viewers that sanitising and working out are compatible, she added a caption to the view that said "Keep both hygiene and immune system up".

HK01's Ka-chun Au reported that numerous fitness instructors have criticised the accuracy of Wong's fitness videos. Choosing one video to critique. Au said that the punches she threw in the video did not involve turning her hips and waist so are not how it is done in boxing. Au further criticised Wong's movement that she called "arm chest expansion", which the reporter found "increases the chance of shoulder joint strain" by "failing to maintain stability".

Personal life

Wong met Chad in September 2013. The couple owned two dogs. She has four tattoos: the first says "pura vida", the second is an image of feathers and birds, the third says "determination", and the fourth says "mind over matter". Wong has a Hong Kong driving license.