Student of Pain & Running (Life) • Vet for Homo Sapiens • Advocate of GOYA (Get Off Your Arse)
Job Profile
I help people achieve their Impossible, by making them believe in I Am Possible, and then guiding on that journey to become their best. It could range from running 555 km at La Ultra - The High in Ladakh, to walking pain free again when everyone told them that they couldn’t.
‘Moving Mountains Within’ is a film on 10th edition (2019) of La Ultra - The High, an ultra marathon in Ladakh (Indian Himalayas). I, along with merry band of organisms put together for 11 editions. It’s now streaming on Jio Cinema.
What do I currently do?
Sports-Exercise Medicine & MusculoSkeletal Pain Physician (esp. Back and Knee Pain) - Back 2 Fitness
Mentor, Running programs - enriching lives through running
Visiting Faculty, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad
Program Consultant - Run 2 Fly (in collaboration with SwaTaleem), empowering 4,500 under-represented rural girl students through running, Haryana
Columnist - Hindustan Times, Premium edition
Founder & Race Director, La Ultra - The High, an ultra marathon (111, 222, 333, 555 km) in Ladakh (Indian Himalayas)
What have I previously done?
Author - 3 books: The Pain Handbook; MoveMint Medicine; La Ultra: cOuch to 5, 11 and 22 km in 100 days
Founder Director - Sports & Exercise, Ashoka University (2014-2016)
Principal Running Technical Consultant and Head Coach - Adidas India (2014 - 2017)
Founding Head - Sports & Exercise Medicine department, Manipal Hospital, Bangalore, 2006
Faculty - World Congress for Science & Medicine in Cricket at ICC Cricket World Cups 2007 (Chairperson - 2011)
Why do I do what I do?
Passionate about making this world a better place, one person at a time
Movement is the most basic human instinct, helping people reclaim it
To help people become their best, one breathe at a time, and one step at a time, one day at a time
Help people address their problems proactively, rather than passively
Make people do crazy sh*t and get them back alive
Proof is in the Pudding
IPS Probationers are getting lesser injuries during their training at the National Police Academy & finish their training more comfortably
Patients take on a more pro-active role not only to address their pains, but also to improve their overall lives
Sportspeople learn to move and think better, and improve at their sport
Running mentees learn that running is only a medium to have a more enriched life, as a by-product their running improves too
Help people conquer their inner demons and achieve the previously thought impossible goals, whether it be to start running or move pain free