Get Off Your Arse: A ran-dumb blog to get you moving, by a bit of a nudge and a bit of a push.
What's happening at La Ultra?
On a regular basis I am bombarded with questions: When is the next La Ultra? Will you have 222, 333 and 555 categories? Will you still keep the shorter versions like 11, 22, 33 and 55? What about 111? What next? I answer all that and more.
Decoding the facts behind the Much-Hyped HIIT
While both HIIT and HIT are all the craze right now, it is important to understand why people move the way they do and the psychology of movement, which makes people choose this form of exercise over others.
Busting myths of exercising in heat
We’ve been told not to drink cold water, pour it on our heads or sit in an air conditioned room right after a workout on a hot sunny day and that playing in the sun makes us stronger. Is that so?
The do's and don'ts of exercising on a hot day
On a hot summer day on a long slow run, my body began to heat up. Had I not known what to do in those circumstances, things could have taken a turn for the worse. Here's what I did.
Overcoming your La Ultra
7/7 (7th July 2005) London suicide bombing and Covid pandemic have played a major role in shifting my perspective to life. In between these two I had put together 10 editions of the impossible La Ultra. Now I appreciate that we all are battling are own challenges and wanting to overcome our La Ultras.
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.