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New entrant Aamir Khan is set to join the six-pack club
Hitting the gym trying to get a six-pack is all fine, but only if you know the basics. It takes two years of working out and adhering to a planned diet to result in six-pack abs. Crash diets and rigorous workouts leave you with short-term results and long-term pains.
Shah Rukh Khan trained for a few months to get his six-pack. Yet, while shooting for the Dard-e-disco number, was dehydrated due to exhaustion and consuming calories a tad too less. Kareena Kapoor has been making heads turn with her extra-slim, toned look and she thanks yoga and a planned diet for the same. But few know that Kareena switched over to an orange juice diet and stayed away from solid food days before shooting for a bikini sequence for her forthcoming film Tashan co-starring Saif Ali Khan. Obviously, you shouldn’t be taking a cue out of Ms. Kapoor’s diet plan.
The six-pack fever refuses to die down. The latest to join the list is Aamir Khan, who is rigorously working out for his next film Ghazini. And Shah Rukh Khan’s trainer Prashant is busy training Fardeen Khan, Irrfan Khan, Manoj Bajpai and Aftab Shivdasani for their film Acid Factory!
“A lot of people approach me asking if they can train to get six-pack abs within a couple of months. They don’t realise that it takes much more than that. There’s no short cut if you want to stay fit and healthy for a lifetime. For someone who hasn’t been working out, it will take at least four to six weeks to see some difference in his body,” says fitness trainer Faiyaz Ali.
Warns Dr. M. Rajiv, who specialises in internal medicine, “Orange juice will give your body some carbs, Vitamin C and Vitamin A but not proteins, fats and other essential minerals and vitamins. When you go back to a regular diet, your body will process it with vengeance since it is starved for nutrients. Film stars world over use performance-enhancing drugs and hormone supplements that thins fat and reduces body weight. They workout much more and eat differently than what they admit. Saying that moderate exercise and diet helped them shed pounds is like saying the sun rises in the West for them. Some people go on hibernation and return from abroad sporting a lean look. They may not admit if they’ve undergone plastic surgery because they have an image to live up to.”
S.D.D
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