At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness – your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.
There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.
Fitness is really important for my mental and emotional equilibrium as well as my physical wellbeing.
Fitness for us on match day is paramount.
For a while after college, I was thinking of becoming a fitness trainer, and I am a certified aqua trainer.
Yoga disciplines both the mind and the souls and not just your body. It helps me in having a constant positive outlook in life. I would love my family to adopt this form of fitness as well.
You can control what you put in your body – 100 percent. You really can control your level of fitness and how your body looks.
What makes me relaxed is the fact that I know I’ve put in a lot of time during the offseason on my fitness.
As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life.
I love dancing and outdoor activities. I like going to the gym, trying different routines of fitness – kickboxing, martial arts. I try to do a bit of everything so I make it exciting for myself and so there are no shockers for my body.
The manager and the fitness staff condition every training session. They plan it out week by week on what players need. If players need a rest, they will do that; if players need to work hard, they will do that as well.
Mental fitness is served by consciously redirecting our attention away from the constant bombardment from the media whose reason to be seems to be focused on keeping us in a state of constant alert.
I never stop working when I’m on stage, and that’s my fitness.
I became a fitness fiend when I was about 17 or 18.
I didn’t get into fitness until my late twenties. I had put on a lot of weight; I was quite chubby and feeling really depressed. But exercise helped everything – the body and the mind.
Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people’s physical fitness and mental prowess.
I have to admit that I’m terrible when it comes to following and sticking to my fitness regime when I’m traveling. Unfortunately, I need to be pushed.
Every morning, I eat one fat-free yogurt with a sliced peach when peaches are in season, and one thin slice of whole-wheat bread. The same thing. I don’t want to get fat. And I want to keep my fitness.
It’s so easy to lose your fitness and so hard to gain it back.
I thought I did well for someone who has been out for 10 or 11 months. Then I was sub against Liverpool and tried to play for the guys and work on my fitness.
If you can do a squat and a pushup, you can build up to becoming a fitness guru.
I attribute my lean physique to the regime I’ve been following thanks to my brother Rahul who made sure fitness was of prime importance in my life.
I’m healthy now. I probably wouldn’t say I’m at my best fitness level and I haven’t played that much lately, but I’m healthy and that’s all that matters.
My fitness approach and philosophy are based on day-to-day functionalities. These functions are bending, lifting, lunging, pulling, pushing and squatting.
I can work hard and be disciplined like a soldier, but I could never reach their level of fitness.
