WELLNESS |
Fit, Strong & Healthy!
Bonny Sikdar, A Telecom Management specialist turned Strength & Dance Fitness coach.
A woman who makes it happen and loves to uplift people around through fitness. A voracious reader, lusty traveller, Dog Mom at Home & to Street pooches. After a 10 year stint in Corporate, she switched her full-time career to fitness at the age of 32 and since then there has been no looking back. It’s been 6 years that she has been working with people to make them fitter and to fall in love with themselves a little more. She is a Lead Coach at Cult fit and in love with what she does. Answering herself to the most frequently question asked related to fitness. How and where to start with a fitness journey? Before one start, it’s important to understand and put together the goals that one wants to achieve. Whether one wants to focus on weight loss, weight gain, increase strength, improve stamina and endurance, focus on mobility and so on. Based on the goals the overall exercise regime can be planned. Exercise does much more than just facilitating weight management. For example, strength training will improve bone mass and keep joint pains at bay (because you are making the muscles around those joints stronger), Cardiovascular exercises will help to improve endurance and heart rate. I am more of a firm believer in fitness as a lifestyle. It should be an indispensable part of your life similar to eating, sleeping, education etc. If you are starting for the first time and have no clue from where to start, it’s strongly advisable to train under proper guidance. One can head to a gym or even follow a workout from home regimes. Pandemic has brought fitness on OTT / Apps platforms which makes it so much easier, affordable and doable. If nothing works, start with walking. A 10k step daily can work wonders.
How to reduce belly fat or arm or leg fat? Let me break this bubble for you. Spot reduction is a myth. It’s remotely not possible to only reduce fat from a particular body part. Weight Loss can be achieved by going on a calorie deficit diet, which is the intake must be lesser than the amount you burn. However, a calorie deficit doesn’t mean a nutrition deficit or eating less. It means eating right and wholesome. We will talk about this a little more in detail when we address the point on diet. Exercise will facilitate burning some extra calories and tone and not spot reduction. TULIP - JULY, 2021 69
