Get Off Your Arse: A ran-dumb blog to get you moving, by a bit of a nudge and a bit of a push.
Role of Sports and Exercise in Education
I thought I had failed at Ashoka because I wasn’t able to deliver what I had set out to do. But meeting Akshay and Abhinay made me realise that the ripple effect will still be on long after the founding team (Sonam, Kishan & me) of the department of Sports & Exercise at Ashoka University is gone.
Why follow a 'no-diet' diet
Every season, a new ‘fad diet’ crops up. Many people spend large parts of their lives jumping from one diet to the next, hoping to find that magical bullet that will help them get the body of their dreams. Nearly all diets will work to some extent for a short period of time and people will see changes within hours or days. However, in reality, there should not be a diet. We should all follow the ‘no diet’ diet.
Playing Sports For Fun
Babies and children love playing, running and jumping around all over the place. When they start going to school, somehow, everyone is keen that they follow a structured programme without appreciating that we are all unique and different things work for all of us. Almost all children love to be active, but not necessarily all of what is being done at school, and almost definitely not the way it’s being done.
Becoming Your Best Friend
We are the most important, more important than our most loved ones. Sounds selfish? No, it’s not. Remember the air-hostess telling you that in case of low oxygen pressure, first put the mask on yourself before you take care of your loved ones.
Ski Prodigy, Struggling With Identity Crisis After Premature Retirement, Takes Her On Life
24 year old Brittany George was training for the Beijing Winter Olympics but then had a back injury, which forced her to take premature retirement from Australia's aerial ski team, which she was a part of from 2017 to 2020.
Perspiration, Respiration, Inspiration, Aspiration
Dr. Rajat Chauhan was invited by Outlook magazine to contribute to a special edition - Children & The Pandemic for what physical inactivity and being locked up has done to the children during this pandemic and what do we do henceforth.
Making COVID-19 less severe and vaccines more effective
The pandemic situation in India is grim. Of course we need to focus on emergency treatment and requirements for the same, but we should also focus on how to make the vaccines more effective and reduce the severity of COVID-19 symptoms.
Pc courtesy: UnSplash by Frank Holleman @fraenkly
Run and Bee in the COVID era
This is the first in the series on how to get back to being active in this Covid era which has broken us down more psychologically than physically. It’ll yet again be GOYA (Get Off Your Arse) that’ll help you reclaim your true self. No one else is going to come and fix anything for you.
Arvind’s Run & Bee experience
He had run a half marathon 6 week’s ago and then joined Run & Bee Camp #3 of 33 days duration. Here he shares his experience.
Do we know what yoga is?
Is Yoga meant to be done only on one day and is it only limited to a few poses? Let’s just not follow blindly. It’s time to make ourselves more aware.