Arvind Ashok: Fitness & Nutrition Simplified

Get Fit With Arv — A Foundation For Fitness

We’ve set our goals. We’ve hope­fully iden­ti­fied a big­ger prob­lem (pain) and iden­ti­fied a cor­rec­tion mech­a­nism by vis­it­ing a doc­tor or a physio. Let’s con­tinue gear­ing up for change, and we come to one of the most impor­tant things — the dif­fer­ence between suc­cess and fail­ure — build­ing a sup­port sys­tem. I’ve writ­ten about this […]

No More F’s — Climbing Up The Fitness Ladder

All of us have some barom­e­ter against which we keep mea­sur­ing up and com­pet­ing, to get bet­ter. At school, we expect/hope to pass your sub­jects with an A+, get pro­moted to the next class, and so on and so forth. At work, like­wise, we expect to get salary increases and get a pro­mo­tion . In everything […]

Goal Setting: Get Fit With Arv

Alright, let’s get this thing going eh! Like I said, over the next six months in par­tic­u­lar, I am going to be work­ing on going from being bro­ken to back to where I was. And via my blog and twit­ter, I will keep post­ing about what I am doing, what that does, improve­ments, suc­cesses, failures, […]

You Are An Athlete. And You Want To Get Better.

Intro I see a lot of folks turn­ing to a sport or activ­ity, and tak­ing it seri­ously. This is sim­ply awe­some. My per­sonal jour­ney to fit­ness started in a sim­i­lar fash­ion — run­ning with Team Asha. To be quite hon­est, I was sim­ply view­ing it as a tool to lose weight, not dis­sim­i­lar to countless […]

The Beginning is the End is the Beginning

I’m not in this world to live up to your expec­ta­tions and you’re not in this world to live up to mine — Bruce Lee. I am proud to have a wife, and fam­ily that sup­ports me in my endeavours. For the past 3 years, I’ve been look­ing for the right rea­son to move back to India. […]

Starting Trouble: Homemakers under 40

A few weeks back, I wrote a train­ing post, about start­ing trou­ble in get­ting back into a work­out pro­gramme. This is part of the same series — how can you kick­start your jour­ney to bet­ter health and fit­ness — home­maker edi­tion. Don’t stop read­ing if you aren’t one though — you will find this post […]

Are You High (on Sugar)?

I want you to meet a friend of mine — he’s decided to eat healthy. Break­fast: 1 cup Muesli in non-fat milk; with a side of toast (no but­ter) + a glass of orange juice Lunch: Sub­way sand­wich + oat­meal cookie (coz hey, it is oats, and thus healthy — an actual quote, not something […]

What’s This Stress Thing Anyway

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Get Fit, in under 75 Minutes per Week!

Most of us find it hard to get back on the working-out wagon, for a mul­ti­tude of rea­sons. I’ve been there — bored out of my mind at the gym on top of not see­ing any results. It took me a few years before I started work­ing out again. Les­son learned — work­ing out should […]

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 […]