Arvind Ashok: Fitness & Nutrition Simplified

Get Started Already

It is a tra­di­tional (south) Indian cus­tom to wait for an aus­pi­cious date and time before embark­ing on some­thing new or impor­tant. At the risk of los­ing more read­ers, I will refrain from com­ment­ing too much on that mat­ter. But let’s talk about wait­ing for that “right” time before fix­ing your health. There’s a bunch […]

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Low-Hanging Fruit a.k.a Cheap and Best!

Cheap & Best — that caught your atten­tion, didn’t it ;) Being healthy is not very hard work. You can get to a rea­son­able level of health and fit­ness by mak­ing a few sim­ple changes in your lifestyle. It is only when you want to progress to attain a elite level of fitness/health that it […]

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Choose Your Poison

Diets don’t work mostly because they are not sus­tain­able. You might be able to pull off a few weeks of eat­ing like a monk but will inevitably find your­self eat­ing a tub of mint choco­late chip at 3am in the morn­ing. Sounds famil­iar right? Hav­ing a 100% squeaky clean diet for just a month is […]

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But I Am Travelling

I am cur­rently trav­el­ling on work-related stuff and sorta started think­ing about how my travel these days is very dif­fer­ent from, say, a year or two ago. And well, I don’t have much else to do until the Ind-Aus game. Coz if India loses, am gonna be curled up in a cor­ner cry­ing, and dont […]

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No Excuses

Is my ass too big?” — f*** yeah, prob­a­bly. “Has my belly grown big­ger?” — That’s a big yes! Ask your­self these ques­tions, and hon­estly answer them. I can assure you that for most of us, the answer is not what we want to hear. We are selec­tively blind to our, umm, fat prob­lems. Even […]

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Growing Old Sucks

We don’t stop play­ing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop play­ing. While research­ing for this post, I came across that George Bernard Shaw quote. Per­fect! Now, let’s talk about grow­ing older. What hap­pens to us? As with all my posts, I will try and be as non-technical as pos­si­ble (eas­ier to […]

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Getting Fit is a Team Effort

There are a lot of rea­sons why your diet, or more loosely your “I want to get fit!” plan fails. The most com­mon, I’ve found, is doing the wrong thing. But even if you get past that, if you do not have a sup­port sys­tem, you are prob­a­bly gonna fail. I touched on this part in […]

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It’s Not Your Fault

It’s not your fault if You do what your trainer says but do not see results You eat the way your nutritionist/trainer/gym advices you to eat but noth­ing hap­pens You are phys­i­cally lim­ited and are unable to do cer­tain things — high inten­sity exer­cises for exam­ple. Let’s not worry about why you came to your current […]

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Getting Fit: Light at the end of the Tunnel

There are a few things about being fat — the def­i­n­i­tion of fat being some­times sub­jec­tive, most times not. it creeps up on you. I was a nor­mal, skinny high school kid. I would see peo­ple who passed out a cou­ple of years ahead of me come back to visit school and I would be astonished […]

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