Beeryani Fitness

15/03/2018

years later, this story is still making the rounds. :D

Thank you Woovly Bucket List for covering this. :)

Check it out over here guys:

From redefining fitness by consuming biryani thrice a day to losing weight in a month, Nishanth's story is surely a must try Bucket List.

05/03/2018

I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the Danger.

Kabooooom!

23/02/2018

Master Jedi has spoken!

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19/02/2018

Nobody has time to do anything, you have to make time for it.
You have to put effort to see the results you dream about!

You lost one time?

What will you lose if you keep going?where do you think 'not quitting' will take you to?

The END GAME bro, the Big Dream that you never thought possible in the beginning.

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And a huge shoutout to Jorge for this post, he has some great videos on his Instagram handle: fitness_iq , go follow him.

17/01/2018

Like most things in fitness, the answer depends on your personal choice, your health and what you want to accomplish.

If you are someone who likes being barefoot, feeling the ground underneath you and not be restricted by shoes, you probably already know what you are going to do. ;)

But, be cautious about doing any jumping or running movements and the environment though. If there are a lot of weights lying around and you are doing a lot of drills that require you to move your feet really fast on a rough surface, you may be better served doing them with shoes.

While on the other hand, if you are doing a lot of strength exercises and you want to work on improving your mobility, barefoot or minimal footwear would be the best option.

Because, most shoes aren't really designed for providing a lot of ankle mobility and may even restrict your mobility at times.

Most shoes have a higher heel, which raises your heel higher (I know right? Genius me!), limiting the amount of dorsiflexion or the amount your ankle can bend.

There's nothing inherently wrong with shoes, but if you want to work on your mobility and get the full ROM and associated benefits, try working out barefoot. Especially on exercises like squats and deadlifts.

Coming to beeryani, we have a lot of stuff lying around on some of our conditioning days and in my personal experience I've noticed that the artificial grass mat and the usual gym rubber flooring is going to be harsh on your toes if you are doing exercises like sled push and mountain climbers.

So, we recommend our folks to wear some amount of protection for the feet on conditioning days and try doing the strength days barefoot. :)

PS: Definitely wear shoes if you are diabetic or have any other health conditions that could put you in harms way.

13/01/2018

The following discussion was with a client of ours who recently moved to the US.

She was basically asking me which one to opt for as long as she's there.

I honestly think that people would benefit a lot more by picking things they enjoy rather than doing things just because they're the most effective ones.

Heck, one of the main reasons I started is because nobody around seemed to be talking about how amazing strength training is, for enjoyability and results.

And the majority of the folks I spoke to who say have been strength training, didn't really do strength training. They were just made to do exercises for countless reps while holding weights.

Strength training is so much more than that. It's so addictive man. You should see the faces of the folks who are able to deadlift their bodyweight for the first time.

You see that glow in their faces, that look where they can't believe they actually did it and a whole new world opens in front of them.

If you want to lose weight and are unsure about what to start with, don't rule out strength training till you are able to deadlift your bodyweight.

I honestly believe that's going to flip a switch and change your life for the better.

If you do try it and realize that it's not for you, give something else a shot and see if you enjoy doing that.

It may just be me, but I want you to experience the high you get when you're strength training properly.

I haven't figured it out completely, but there's something about strength training that gets people hooked. I've never met anyone who deadlifted their bodyweight or did their first chinup and not love that feeling.

If you need help getting started on your strength training journey, please feel free to contact us to see how we can help.

If you need a playlist of YouTube videos that teach you how to do the deadlift properly on your own, please DM us and we'll share the links with you.

Yoga, Pilates, dance forms and other exercise methodologies are all great and have a lot of folks teaching them too, but I sincerely, genuinely hope you give strength training a shot too.
If I could convince at least one of you to give it a shot, I'll be a happy man :)

10/01/2018

How to avoid Painful Blisters or calluses.
Buy a pair of gloves. That's it.

The End.

The thing about gloves is that they may help avoid calluses, but the problem with them, apart from not making you look like a badass, is that they don't make you look like a badass.

Before you decide to unfriend me and throw your money at gloves, let me tell you that most of the discomfort or pain can be avoided by tweaking your technique slightly.

The calluses/Palm Blisters that cause unbearable pain, like that time you hit your pinky toe on a piece of that fu***ng furniture, is because whenever you are pulling something, you let the skin on your Palm get pinched between the bar and your fingers.

To avoid that, just hold the bar in a way that doesn't let the skin of your Palm get pinched. Voila!

You could place the middle of your fingers on the bar and then slowly start gripping the bar while ensuring the Palm skin doesn't get stuck between the fingers and the bar.

And, there you have it folks, you can transfer the money you were going to spend on your gloves. I promise to spend that money on most important things like beer and biryani.

You can DM me for account details. You're welcome.

Love is too strong of a word, so I'll just say, I really like you guys very much.
Hit me up with how it goes or if you have a better strategy yo.

As I'm slowly getting more comfortable with a camera in my face, also hit me up with what I could improve upon yo.

Kudos to for recording it and Sai for making me look like a noob in the end.

10/01/2018

I came across this quote several years ago and it has guided me on designing a proper workout routine ever since.
Designing a killer workout program is easy: for starters, you could just add a bunch of compound movements done without any rest in between them and voila, you have a killer workout routine.
And, following up from yesterday's post, your goals should dictate the length and intensity of your workout(among other things), not how you feel at the end of it or how killer the workout is.
If you're doing a lot of high intensity activity like strength training and HIIT on a daily basis, and still want to add some more exercises to your day, focus on adding low intensity cardio.
High intensity activities are meant for giving all out, 100% effort in a short period of time.
I'd rather you focus on giving 100% effort during a short high intensity workout, before trying to add more activity.
We're all so used to falling for the more is better mindset, that we sometimes overlook the basic fundamental ideas of a certain methodology.
Though HIIT wasn't started as a fat burning tool, it was studied as a way to improve athletic performance and along the way, we found out that it burns insane amount of calories in a short period of time.
And, that's how it's popularity started growing, as a way to burn s**t loads of calories in a short span of time.
It may seem logical that, if doing it for 20 minutes is better, then 50 minutes should be even more amazing, but what actually happens is:
1. You won't keep up with the intensity and thus, it won't really be a high intensity activity anymore and you won't be burning so many calories anymore.(And now, if you're wondering, what's the harm in doing it, if it becomes a low intense activity...Wait up, yo! That's the next point)
2. Though the intensity may have come down as we end up doing it at a slow pace, the exercises place an insane amount of stress on our bodies that we cannot easily recover from. Especially, if you are doing high intensity activities on a daily basis.
So yeah, doing s**tloads of High intensity activities without planning for recovery, is a recipe for disaster waiting to happen.