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Fitness Trends Inspired by Indian Olympians That You Can Start Today

Fitness Trends Inspired by Indian Olympians That You Can Start Today

Indian Olympians are the epitome of dedication, discipline, and excellence in fitness. Their fitness routines, mental training, and dietary habits provide a roadmap not just for aspiring athletes but also for anyone seeking a healthier and more balanced lifestyle. By drawing inspiration from their training and habits, individuals can adopt practical fitness trends that promote strength, endurance, and mental resilience. This article explores these trends and how you can integrate them into your daily routine. Most Indian Olympians build their fitness on fundamental exercises that develop strength, stamina, and agility. Bodyweight exercises such as pushups, squats, and planks are commonly practiced due to their effectiveness and versatility. For example, Mary Kom relies heavily on these moves to build core strength and muscular endurance without the need for expensive gym equipment. Similarly, athletes like sprinter Hima Das integrate running drills and plyometric exercises such as jump squats to improve cardiovascular fitness and explosive power. These workouts are easy to perform at home or outdoors and can be scaled to match any fitness level. Cross-training is another …

Parth Mane pips Olympians, world champion to win men’s 10m air rifle

Parth Mane pips Olympians, world champion to win men’s 10m air rifle

Maharashtra’s 17-year-old Parth Mane emerged victorious in a men’s 10m air rifle field stacked with Olympians and a former world champion at the 2025 National Games in Dehradun, Uttarakhand on Friday. The teenager, who had finished third in the qualification rounds a day prior, shot an excellent 252.6 in the final to win a gold medal on his National Games debut. Parth pipped former world champion Rudrankksh Patil, who took home the silver medal with a score of 252.1 for Maharashtra. Kiran Jadhav of Services won the bronze medal with 230.7. “I just wanted to follow my process,” Parth told The Bridge soon after his win. “I did not have the stature of opponents in my mind. I simply wanted to stay in my zone.” The men’s 10m air rifle final in Dehradun also had India’s 2024 Paris Olympians Arjun Babuta and Sandeep Singh in the mix. Babuta had, in fact, come agonisingly close to a medal in Paris, finishing fourth. But Parth is no stranger to taking down well known names when it matters. …

Bihar CM felicitates Olympians, Paralympic athletes

Bihar CM felicitates Olympians, Paralympic athletes

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar presenting the Sportstar Young Achiever Award to Mohd Reyan during the Sports Conclave focus Bihar at Patna on January 24, 2025.. | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar felicitated athletes and para-athletes for their achievements and contributions to their respective sporting disciplines, during the Sportstar Focus Bihar Conclave held at the Taj City Centre in Patna on Friday (January 24, 2025). The players felicitated included Paralympic silver medallist Deepa Malik, Olympic bronze medal-winning boxer Vijender Singh, double Olympic bronze medallist P.R. Sreejesh, double Paralympic medallist Sharad Kumar, six-time Winter Olympian Shiva Keshavan, and Indian women’s hockey team head coach Harendra Singh. The sporting stars were honoured with a shawl and a cased silver fish. As per the Sportstar Conclave tradition, two special awards were bestowed on athletes from the State. Decathlete Jai Prakash Singh won the Unsung Champion award and teenage chess talent Md. Reyan bagged the Young Achiever honour. Both were awarded a cash prize of ₹50,000 each. Published – January 25, 2025 02:07 am IST …

What makes Jalandhar, the biggest nursery and coaching centre of Indian hockey | Hockey News

What makes Jalandhar, the biggest nursery and coaching centre of Indian hockey | Hockey News

The entrance to Balbir Singh’s home, nestled in one of the sleepy residential colonies of Jalandhar, leads into a gallery that serves as a shrine to the glory days of his past. The walls adorn memorabilia from his hockey-playing days, when he won bronze at the 1968 Mexico Olympics and gold at the 1966 Asian Games. But more importantly for him, they are a reminder that his tiny village, Sansarpur, now surrounded by a sprawling town, produced some of India’s greatest Olympians of the post-colonial era. “Go around (town) and you will see hockey is in our blood,” he says. For decades, Punjab and hockey have been synonymous in a way few regions are known for sports in India. And if Punjab was considered the sport’s spiritual home, Jalandhar was its hub. Even as other regions – from Karnataka to Odisha – began producing hockey players en masse, that maxim continues to hold a grain of truth even today. Eight of the 16 members of the squad that won bronze at the 2024 Paris Olympics …

Olympians advocate for Grassroots Sports at SFA Championships

Olympians advocate for Grassroots Sports at SFA Championships

The importance of grassroots sports took centre stage as Olympians and experts came together for “From The Ground Up,” a panel discussion held alongside the ongoing SFA (Sports for All) Championships in Bengaluru. Their consensus was clear: encouraging children to play sports, expanding grassroots participation, and embracing the unique lessons sport imparts are vital for individual and national growth. Srihari Nataraj, who swam in the 2024 Olympics, said he took the water early on: “I started swimming at 2. I was one of the kids who never cried and ran into the water,” he said. “I enjoyed the time I spent in the pool and started competing in small tournaments at the age of four. I had some success early and this gave me extra joy and passion. As a person, I was competitive and sporting and this made me choose swimming as a profession.” 16-year-old Tilottama Sen, who won silver in the Asian Shooting Championship last year, recounted her contrasting entry into sport: “Because of Covid, everything was shut down. My dad came up …

AP’s new sports policy to reserve 3 per cent jobs for sportspersons

AP’s new sports policy to reserve 3 per cent jobs for sportspersons

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Monday approved a new sports policy during a review meeting at the Secretariat in Amaravati. The policy emphasises four core objectives: sports for all, nurturing talent, building a supportive sports ecosystem, and enhancing global visibility. CM Naidu said that the new policy would help Andhra Pradesh emerge as India’s top state in the field of sports. The new sports policy proposed enhanced incentives for athletes and pledged to scale up the sports infrastructure of the state. Once the policy comes into effect, 2 to 3 per cent of jobs will be reserved for distinguished sportspers, with additional benefits for uniformed services. The Olympic gold medallists, meanwhile, will be feted with INR 7 crore cash rewards, while the silver medallists and the bronze medallists will get INR 5 crore and INR 3 crore respectively. Currently, the Olympic medallists from Andhra Pradesh are eligible for cash rewards of INR 75 lakh, INR 50 lakh and INR 30 lakh, respectively. Not only the Olympic medallists, but the medallists from the …

Olympians Maheshwari and Anantjeet back in action at the ISSF World Cup finals

Olympians Maheshwari and Anantjeet back in action at the ISSF World Cup finals

Skeet shooters Maheshwari Chauhan and Anantjeet Singh Naruka, who narrowly missed out on a podium finish in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, will return to world class competition at home in the ISSF World Cup final at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Ranges in Tuglakhabad here from Sunday. Maheshwari Chauhan thinks a home World Cup finals will give her an advantage. “It’s a great honour and my first World Cup final as well so I am very excited to be shooting with the best. There’s just one target this time – to be on the podium,” Maheshwari told SAI Media. She said she will take the lessons from the Paris experience of competing in the Mixed Team bronze medal shoot off. “The Olympic Games is a great learning experience. It taught me more than anything to trust myself and my process. It strengthened my resolve to take my Olympic journey ahead with the lessons I learnt from Paris,” she added. Together with Maheshwari, Anantjeet Naruka provided Indian shotgun shooting a watershed moment at the Paris …

PT Usha claims IOA EC failed to honour Olympians, EC terms it ‘blatant lie’

The cat and mouse fight at the Indian Olympic Association intensified as treausrer Sahdev Yadav hit back at President PT Usha for claiming that IOA Executive Committee members failed to honour Olympic medallists. Sahdev called PT Usha’s claim a ‘blatant lie’ on Tuesday. Usha on Monday claimed that she was concerned about the fact that the EC members failed to honour Olympic medallists and accused the Finance Committee of blocking funds intended to support Indian athletes’ preparation for the Paris Games. “It is deeply concerning that, even after returning home in mid-August, the EC has failed to discuss or take any steps towards organizing a formal felicitation ceremony. EC does not want to celebrate their success and it makes me very sad.These athletes have made the nation proud, and it is the responsibility of the IOA to celebrate their achievements with the respect they deserve,” Usha said in a press statement on Monday. She had also revealed that a proposal for a preparatory grant of Rs two lakh for each Olympic-bound athlete and Rs one …

Olympians Manu, Lovlina are guests at Adda today | Sport-others News

PARIS 2024 might not go down as India’s best-ever Olympics. Yet, it was historic no less. For the first time in the 100-plus years of the country sending its athletes to the biggest sporting event, India had a multiple-medal winner at a single Olympics. On Saturday, the athlete who pulled off the previously-unthinkable feat, Manu Bhaker, will be the guest at the Express Adda in New Delhi. Joining the 22-year-old will be world champion, Tokyo Olympics bronze winner and Asian Games medallist boxer Lovlina Borgohain, a trailblazer in her own right. They will be in conversation with Mihir Vasavda, Deputy Associate Editor, The Indian Express, who has covered three Olympics apart from three Commonwealth Games. The athletes have been at the centre of a change in Indian sport, becoming two of the faces of the rising women power not just in their discipline but the whole ecosystem. Three years ago in Tokyo, Lovlina — inspired by Mohammad Ali — ensured India’s return to the Olympic podium in boxing after a barren Rio Games. In doing …

Percy Jackson and the Olympians cast: Who plays what in the series? | Hollywood

The Disney+ team undertook the ambitious challenge of bringing Rick Riordan’s cherished Percy Jackson and the Olympians novel series to life. The first season continues to remain remarkably faithful to the source material, particularly the first book – The Lightning Thief, earning acclaim in stark contrast to its 20th Century Fox predecessor. The Disney+ series stands as a redemptive chapter for this iconic literary series, celebrated for its commitment to the original narrative. Still from Percy Jackson and the Olympians(Instagram/percyseries) Check out the awesome cast, a mix of fresh faces and experienced pros who’ve made Percy Jackson and the Olympians come alive on the screen. Wrap up the year gone by & gear up for 2024 with HT! Click here Leah Sava Jeffries, Aryan Simhadri, and Walker Scobell in Percy Jackson and the Olympians(Instagram/percyseries) Walker Scobell as Percy Jackson Taking the lead in the ensemble cast is Walker Scobell, stepping into the shoes of the titular character, Percy Jackson. Recognized for his breakout performance in the Netflix hit The Adam Project, Scobell brings his talent …