Mr. Personal Trainer (#The2017 Awards)

Cheat-Meal Day

Dedicated to Amisha322 for your achievement!!

"Come on, three more to go........no....no...no...no.......don't even think of giving up."

It's been three weeks since I began the training. I liked the change in my appearance and daily routine.

Physical training is just not only meant for fitness but it brings visible changes in your kitchen. So as per by diet plan oats, green tea sachets made their place in my kitchen.

To smell parathas in morning and not eat them is quite an emotional hurdle to cross. So you inhale their aroma wafting out of the kitchen but you have to turn your face away and swallow your boiled oats instead! For the first time, I had begun to emphasize with smokers and understood how difficult it must be for them to quit smoking.

When I visited nearest retails store, it was one of the tortures trip. After watching calories contains behind the every product I realized that the big food retail store, there is very little that can be brought by fitness freak. The chocolate and ice cream sections are of no use. Same with the entire section containing chips, cookies and other assorted junk. Don't ever look at the aisle containing various types of and beautifully decorated pastries and cakes. They all full of sugar. Basically, it is no fun visiting a retail store at all!! You are better off at the neighborhood Kirana store.

"Come on, Ma'am! Let's finish this!"

More than planning your diet and exersice, the main task of coach to motivate you to push your boundaries so that you discover new limits. That's what Arjun was doing with me every day.

In merely three weeks, I felt my stamina increase. I had lost a little than 2.5 kg in the three weeks. That was my achievement and the discovery thrilled me. However, according to Arjun it was quite normal. He told me that fat loss in initial few weeks is fast. But for me it was enough to make me happy. I felt energetic.

"yes! Just two more left now...come on...Madam..do it and feel proud" he roared

Arjun's way of motivating people was novel and interesting.

"Beyond this last repetition, there is glory waiting for you..Go claim it! It's yours! " he would cry out.

He would make me feel as I was a gladiator!

His words, and more importantly the energy with which he would deliver them, would have an enlivening influence on me.An influence I could rarely overcome...

And yet, there were those moments when I would cry " I can't ! I can't !!" and feel like giving up. Arjun would bring his face closure to mine. And like a beast he would wildly look into my eyes and without blinking he would say " that's only in your mind..Tame your mind! And the body will follow..It will!!

His gaze and his words penetrate my eyes and my mind. Somewhere deep inside me they would explode, generating enough energy for me to be able to finish my set. And that would mark my turning point.

Arjun had made the gym floor a battlefield for me. He made me claim my victory..In every fight!!

Eventuallly, I got so used to all this that I ended up doing things that I never ever believed I could. It was one of the most important lessons I learnt from Arjun – It's all in the mind...

Just the way he would say it, pointing his forefinger above his right ear.

After I would finish the set, he would raise his hand in the air. And I would respond. The two of us would do a high-five. We celebrated every successful completion of set. That had become our ritual.