Fitmag Volum+2 Issue+1 Jan22
Fitmag Volum+2 Issue+1 Jan22
DREAM
CAPITAL
INVESTS
IN FITTR
BUSTING
HEALTH MYTHS DREAM
THE FUTURE
OF FITNESS
CAPITAL
PROTEIN
HEALTH MYTHS
PROTEIN INVESTS
HOW WFH HAS
HYBRID
HYBRID FITNESS:
FITNESS: INTO HEALTH
AFFECTED FITTR
WHAT’S
WHAT’S THE
THE
SUCCESS
SUCCESS MANTRA?
MANTRA? TRANSFORMATION
CHALLENGE
COVID
COVID CHAMPION 2021
LESSONS
LESSONS DHYAN
DHYAN
SUMAN
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POWERED BY:
FI TMA G | JANU ARY 202 2
SUMAN
Volume 2. Issue I. January 2022
contents
05 Letter from
06
Editor
Letter from
JC
07
Lose Fat Get Fittr
Have you read JC’s
new book yet?
08 Covid
Lessons
15 The Future
of Fitness
18 Hybrid Fitness:
What’s The Success Mantra?
28
Best of 2021
The Making
of a Champion
37
of FITTR
Fittr in the
news
43
Busting
Health Myths
Protein
47 Covid
Vaccine
49
Recipe of the month:
Potato and Almond
Souffle
On 9 July 2021, our founder unveiled his around us that derails our fitness journey
project that had been in the works for even before it can begin. With ‘Lose Fat,
almost a year. Get Fittr’, my aim is to share the right
knowledge and dispel all the myths. By
‘Lose Fat, Get Fittr’ can be described as applying the principles and tenets shared
his love letter to the world. Published in this book, people from all walks of life
by Rupa Publications, the book is a will be able to incorporate a healthy
comprehensive and easy-to-use guide lifestyle and achieve their fitness goals
to nutrition and fitness that is based on – all by themselves. I am confident that
scientific research. It seeks to educate it will act as the reader’s guide to a new
the readers about ‘quantified nutrition’ life.”
and exercise, the two fundamental pillars
of good health. The book was launched at a virtual event
co-hosted by Fittr’s own Anna, Suniel
In JC’s words, “There is a lot of Shetty, who also wrote the foreword. “If
misinformation on nutrition and fitness your goal is to live a healthy life”, he said
Lesson #1: Personal Hygiene and Lesson #2: Learn to recognise the
Sanitisation symptoms
The virus is airborne and spreads primarily While a lot of patients are asymptomatic,
through respiratory droplets. Covering many people infected with the virus
your mouth and nose while sneezing or might see tell-tale signs. According to the
coughing and using an alcohol-based Centers for Disease Control & Prevention,
hand sanitiser are non-negotiable. keep an eye out for these symptoms
But with the pros come the cons, so let’s 5. We agree that work from home does
have a look at them as well: come with the benefit of having a
1. There’s been a significant rise in work flexible schedule; however, most
and stress-related health conditions of us have, at some point, felt that
such as back and neck pain. The main our employers don’t respect these
culprit seems to be our habit of sitting boundaries. It’s almost like a never
for long hours coupled with lack ending work day, often leading to
of exercise or physical activity. burnout.
Over the past decade or so, we’ve seen following the “I can workout anywhere,
an exponential growth in the health and anytime” mantra and Workout From
fitness industry and the trend doesn’t Home showed them that you don’t need
seem to be slowing down anytime soon. any high end equipment to stay fit.
With the emergence of the pandemic,
like every other industry, the fear was that More than a year and a half later, the online
the fitness industry too would come to a platforms seem to be the key drivers in
standstill. the space. Whether it be pre-recorded
video content by globally well recognised
However, the fitness space bucked the fitness brands or individual instructors
trend and leveraged the situation by creating fitness communities or personal
almost entirely shifting online. Through trainers conducting small/individual
several lockdowns and restrictions, sessions online, the differentiating point
people in India and globally had to re- throughout has been incredible coaches
evaluate how to exercise. People began with communication and engagement
SUMIT SRIVASTAV
Before: 48 kg | After: 60 kg
I was always interested in fitness, weight training and trekking. It took a long 10 years
for me to get where I am, but it’s been a memorable journey. Just like most of us,
even I struggled a lot during this lockdown. I wanted to work with a fittr coach but it
was not possible due to financial issues. So I decided to participate in TC 13 on my
own and I read the get shredded document and applied it on myself. Making all the
quantified food for myself is a different pleasure that every single day was helping
me get closer towards my goal. All the efforts were rewarded when I was placed in
the Top 20 in TC13.
I was happy but not satisfied with what I achieved in TC 13, so I wanted to take my
transformation a step ahead and for that I enrolled with my coach Bala Krishna Reddy.
I remember in my first call with my coach that I said “ki sir aap bas believe karna
mujhpe definitely i will do everything to follow your instruction without any deviations”
and I’m happy with the condition I achieved in this TC !!!
Fittr and especially Transformation Challenges gave me an opportunity to better
myself with every passing week.
It instilled discipline and consistency in my lifestyle and which helped me when I was
placed in Top 250 in Transformation Challenge 12, Top 20 in Transformation Challenge
13, and finally when I won Transformation Challenge 14!
This journey was not possible without my Mentor Bala Krishna Reddy. You are an
amazing Coach and I will always be thankful to you for whatever I have achieved.
“After trying and testing most of the fad diets in order to lose fat, I ended up with a bad
body composition. I felt as if I was a couple of decades older than my current age.
Although I used to practice portion control, the results weren’t up to my expectations.
I was living with the constant feeling of “something isn’t working right” in my mind.
All my worries about fat loss were put to rest as I started noticing changes in terms
of inch loss, improved confidence and strength. I was the happiest when I realized
that my clothes had become loose. I haven’t achieved my goal yet, but I am pretty
confident that under my coach’s able guidance, I will achieve it. Today, my husband
is enrolled under Dr Aakash too and I also managed to inspire some of my friends
and family members to make healthier lifestyle changes.”
“As busy doctors with young kids, time is a scarcity for us. But we also understand the
value of health and fitness. When we heard about the Fittr Transformation Challenge
14, we thought that it’s the best opportunity to focus on our fitness. And so, we enrolled
under a coach and participated in the TC with specific goals.
Richa wanted to be leaner and stronger. She ate healthy and was a regular runner
(~ 15-20 km/week) but her progress had hit a plateau. I had been weight training
regularly but needed to figure out how to do a body recomposition and get shredded
(lose fat and still gain muscle or at least hold on to most of the muscles). We mostly
ate home cooked meals, and the concept of strict quantified nutrition was a game
changer for us. A personalized workout plan from our coaches and the accountability
towards them was equally important.
A big thanks to Bala Krishna Reddy and Sheikh Nadir Siddiquee for their invaluable
guidance! As doctors, we know the consequences of neglecting health & fitness. Fittr
has revolutionized the concept of fitness by making it simple and accessible.
Many of our friends have taken a leaf out of our book and started working out
“I have been on the heavier side since childhood. As a patient of Spina Bifida, I
had a considerably sedentary life with little or no movement involved throughout
The Making
of a Champion
Transformation Challenge
Grand Prize 2021 Winner
Dhyan Suman
DS: I remember as a teen everyone used F: Now, let’s turn to the question that I’m
to tell us to consume a glass of warm sure all our readers are thinking about.
lemon water on waking up to trim down How did you manage to participate in all
the waistline. Some said I should quit tea three Transformation Challenges of 2021
and only eat boiled food to shed the extra AND absolutely killed it each time?
kilos. DS: I started small and just kept pushing
I even followed a renowned nutritionist, but myself - that’s it in a nutshell.
never did she speak about the concept
of quantified nutrition or exercise. The The goal for Transformation Challenge
only mantra that was to be followed was 12 was simple: I just wanted to see the
controlling portion sizes. slightest hint of abs. For this, I worked out
6 days a week, mostly strength training -
Fittr showed me, for the first time, that chest and triceps, back and biceps, legs
with consistent exercise and quantified and shoulder.
nutrition, I could lose fat, cure my illnesses
and improve my mental health. That truly As for my diet, I was enrolled with a Fittr
was a revelation. Coach (Mufaddal Lokhandwala) who
In 2021, Sarina Pani and Anju Meena decided they would put their best foot forward
and step onto the stage!
And they did - in style!
Sarina wowed everyone on her way to getting her IFBB Pro card! Along the way, she
slayed it at FitFactor’s Female Fitness Model and Beach Body Female categories.
Anju Meena had never imagined she would one day step on the stage. But 2021 was
clearly a year of firsts for her, as she went on to participate in Sheru Classic 2021.
Join us in congratulating Sarina and Anju and wishing them the best for the future!
100 gm 150 gm
6 Eggs
Chicken Breast Prawns
40 gm 100 gm 200 gm
Soya Chunks Rajma Paneer
Some other vegetarian sources of protein include smart food combinations such as
Rajma and Rice, all forms of dairy products, soy & tofu.
15 gm 24 gm 26 gm 53 gm 20 gm 24 gm 10 gm
References:
1. Effects of High Protein and Balanced Diets on Lipid Profiles and Inflammation Biomarkers in Obese and Overweight
Women at Aerobic Clubs: A Randomized Clinical Trial (Pegah Amini, Zahra Maghsoudi, Awat Feizi, Reza Ghiasvand, and
Gholamreza Askari)
2. A High Protein Diet Has No Harmful Effects: A One-Year Crossover Study in Resistance-Trained Males (Jose Antonio,
Anya Ellerbroek, Tobin Silver, Leonel Vargas, Armando Tamayo, Richard Buehn, and Corey A. Peacock)
3. Higher compared with lower dietary protein during an energy deficit combined with intense exercise promotes greater
lean mass gain and fat mass loss: a randomized trial (Thomas M Longland, Sara Y Oikawa, Cameron J Mitchell, Michaela
C Devries, Stuart M Phillips)
4. Lonnie, M., Hooker, E., Brunstrom, J. M., Corfe, B. M., Green, M. A., Watson, A. W., ... & Johnstone, A. M. (2018). Protein for life:
Review of optimal protein intake, sustainable dietary sources and the effect on appetite in ageing adults. Nutrients,
10(3), 360.
5. Bauer, J., Biolo, G., Cederholm, T., Cesari, M., Cruz-Jentoft, A. J., Morley, J. E., ... & Visvanathan, R. (2013). Evidence-based
recommendations for optimal dietary protein intake in older people: a position paper from the PROT-AGE Study Group.
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 14(8), 542-559.
jaggery - 50 gm to combine
• Whole eggs - 2 nos. + 3. Gradually add the almond flour and fold
Ingredients for
the custard
• Milk - 500 ml
• Egg yolk - 1 no.
• Sugar/Honey - 45 gm
• Cornstarch - 15 to 20 gm
• Whey protein powder -
30 gm
• Vanilla essence
DESIGN
Hukumsingh Rajpurohit
CONTRIBUTORS
Anavi Someshwar
Jaideep Bhide
Matin Shaikh
Nitisha Anand
Utsav Agrawal
COVER MODEL
Dhyan Suman
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