Health and Fitness

If you've asked people around you what their top priorities were, eating healthy and fitness would be very low on their list. And it’s difficult to blame them. Indians generally tend to have lower quality of food readily available to them, have highly stressful jobs and long working hours. This, coupled with our extremely curbed knowledge on a balanced diet, culminates into the obesity epidemic India is advancing towards. Our food is very rich in carbohydrates. Grains (wheat, ragi, rice, millets etc.), lentils (commonly known as dal), sweets, vegetables and fruits, legumes (such as green gram, beans) and dairy have a lot of carbohydrates. Dal which supposedly has a “lot” of protein, in fact has double the amount of carbohydrates as compared to protein. An average adult should be getting at least 60 g of protein a day. However, most of us wouldn’t cross 20-30g per day with our carb loaded diets. People who exercise regularly, especially those who perform resistance traini...

Remember your dad telling you about the importance of setting goals? That if you fail to plan, you’re planning to fail? Most of us want to look good. Six pack abs, broad shoulders and nice arms. Some of us want to be able to run a marathon or do 25 pullups in one go or lift heavy things. Some of us just want to remain healthy and be able to run when we're 70 years old.  Rich Froning Jr, CrossFit athlete My goal is to look like a Greek God, run like Usain Bolt and lift like Pyrros Dimas (widely considered as one of the greatest Olympic weightlifters of all time. Seriously, just google this guy). Something like Rich Froning Jr, winner of the 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 CrossFit games. I know I will never achieve any one of these. But that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t aspire to get there. Breaking the 10 second barrier in the 100m dash was considered impossible in the early parts of the 1900s. Yet, people believed. And finally at the 1968 Olympics at Mexico, Jim H...