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Practical portion control

Here’s a stupidly simple hack to be able to grapple with the problem of how much are you eating in a day. Just know the volume of the cup you are serv..

Stop listening to your body

Eat till you are xx percent full is the single most pointless advice one can give you. Your stomach is a balloon. A muscular balloon that stretches as..

The most unlikely business advantages (for a gym)

1 Being on time. Let’s take our online service. We’ve conservatively run atleast 5000 hours of group classes. We’ve had a late start during 2 hours on..

Corporations are full of shit

Corporations excel at the art of saying a lot without meaning anything. All their talk will not stop them from taking our money. Nor should it. Apps t..

Motivation is often messy

In 2003, a girl I liked in school commented how good Nikhil Chinappa’s biceps looked. The shame of my puny biceps sent me scrambling to the gym. In re..

Taking pride in being a coach

The trainer or coach is seen as a fairly lowly job by most Indians. This is a shame. When I visit gyms outside of mine, I see clients treat their coac..

The right price for a gym membership

I cannot run my gym at a fee of 18000 per annum. If my current client base paid me what the average gym in India makes, almost half the revenue would ..

Think beyond walking

Walking is good for you. And there are very few people who disagree with that assessment. Doctors, therapists, coaches, governments all encourage you ..

Constraints

When you follow rules, it works. Be it exclusion diets, rigid volume or weight targets for food, training plans with progression and volume targets, b..

Not everyone is going to love how you sound or coach

This might apply to other spheres too. Say website design, restaurants, cars, bikes. Why do people like a service ? I used to think it’s pra..