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Yash Birla: ‘Fitness is a journey, not a destination’
Updated On: 09 December, 2022 11:55 AM IST | Mumbai | Nascimento Pinto
The Mumbai industrialist and fitness enthusiast takes readers on his revelatory personal fitness journey that makes it relatable and follows it up with a detailed guide for those who want to build their body
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Yash Birla first visited the gym as a teenager when his parents told him to go but it never interested him; shortly after that he would fall in love with bodybuilding forever. Photo Courtesy: On special request
When Mumbai industrialist Yash Birla, was told to go to the gym by his parents, it wasn’t all that attractive. A visit to a garage gym in Malabar Hill as a teenager didn’t help much either, the well-known scion of the Birla family tells us because he lacked motivation. Birla explains, “My parents were very keen on me joining a gym. I wasn’t very tall. So, they thought that going to the gym would help me. At that time, there weren’t many gyms and there was only one that was called Pujari’s gym that I joined.” However, like every other child around the world, even when his late parents told Birla something including joining a gym, he only did it as a chore and tried to escape it as much as he could.
Little did he know his life would shortly change a great deal after that when he went to the US for his higher studies and would circle back to this very chore. Being into none of the other vices like other people his age, it was a visit to a nearby gym in his student town that completely changed his perspective about bodybuilding and weight training. He narrates, “I walked into a gym and obviously I like to look good, so that was a motivation. I just started working out and saw a difference in 10 days and then it never stopped.”
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