‘Indian cricket team inspiring others to stay fit’

The Indian cricket team players are leading by example as far as fitness trends are concerned, encouraging others to follow suit, feels renowned fitness trainer Jag Chima.

“I have noticed that there are lot of cricket playerswho are following these trends and open businesses to encourage more people touse gyms to improve their fitness,” Jag Chima, CEO and co-founder,Physique Global and Kris Gethin Gyms, told IANS in an interview.

   

“Fitness is extremely important in sports. The reasonis that you can optimize your performance, endurance and also train to avoidinjuries. For example, the cricket teams are now learning from internationaltrends and training in the gym will definitely improve their performance.

“Hence most teams around the world who are performingwell will have their teams train in gyms with specialized trainers, so thatthey can get better results,” he said.

Led by Virat Kohli, who takes a lot of pride in staying fit,the Indian team members currently taking part in the World Cup in Britain arefit unit and spend a lot of time in the gym.

Recently, the Indian team were forced to workout in privategyms at UK as the ones in the team hotels were not adequate.

About Indian attitudes towards fitness, Chima said:”The average Indian is much more fitness conscious today than they were ayear ago and much more than they were 5 years ago. The reason for this is, ahuge influx of movie stars are now showing fitter physiques on the big screenwhich is inspiring a lot of youth.

“Also there are now many gyms that are providingeducation across the country, helping people to live a fitter and healthierlifestyle, which is great. Because India does have one of the highest populationsin the world who are obese. Also the highest population of children who areobese. Therefore it’s very important for us to spread education so that peoplecan live a fitter and healthier lifestyle.”

Chima is the founder of The London Group, a diversifiedconglomerate with extensive operations in UK, India and other parts of theworld, including companies in property consultancy and development, realty,lifestyle brands, fitness education, talent management and health clubs.

“So far we have trained approximately 6,000 trainersacross the country. And we are bringing more education specific for eachdemographics so that we can help to grow the industry. We are also planning ofsetting up between 100-150 gyms across India for all demographics, right frombasic gyms to high end gyms over the next seven to eight years,” he saidabout his plans for India.

Chima also shared his plans of helping the lesser lightsfrom smaller cities who cannot afford high-end gym facilities.

“We have realized that there is a huge demand from tier3, tier 4 cities and small towns. However, some of these people are not able toafford the ticket price of premium clubs in tier 1 and tier 2 cities. “Therefore, we have designed smaller floorplates gyms which we feel will be able to service these people and also helpthem to become fitter and healthier.”

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