Personal trainer Bill Maeda, 56, has always been pretty high energy.

He was only 7 or 8 years old when he first started working out, inspired by the speed and athleticism of Bruce Lee — and his muscles.

“I had never seen muscles,” he said. “I was blown away by that. He just looks so deadly.”

And it was while doing his job — training at the gym — in 2012 that he realized something was seriously wrong, sending him to the hospital to discover he had Stage 3 colon cancer . 4

Maeda was working on some martial arts moves with a client, who kept practicing his kicks against a pad Maeda had over his stomach.

When he went to the bathroom, there was blood — a lot of blood.

“Apparently, when he kicked me, the cancerous lesion that I had tore,” he said.

He went to the ER, where he was p

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