Goal!

If you do a google on goals this is what you will get:

"Goals originate within a person's mind and are stored primarily in the subconscious. The "stored" thoughts are put into action by the conscious. For example, when a person continually tells themselves they will never accomplish anything this message is stored in the subconscious section of their mind. (here is a description of the unconscious if you are not familiar with it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subconscious) Once these "messages" are stored in the subconscious mind they are put into action by the conscious mind. The consequence of this mindset is the person unconsciously acts to fulfill the thought of accomplishing nothing."

These were just words until I realize one day that I need to change myself and that day onwards I started to put my subconscious thoughts into my conscious thoughts.

Setting up goal is as important as setting up time and day to take a flight. If you miss it you will miss the flight! Goal setting could be as simple as that.

In 2007 I decided to change the way I look and started to think about it 24X7. I have always achieved everything that I had ever desired for! I feel lucky to have the motivation that gets me going when everyone around me points in other direction.

I started my journey in Dec. of 2007. Early morning cardio in my garage, eating the same food every day, looking away from the food that I know will get me in trouble and working out at odd time resulted in not only achieving my goal but also gave me the motivation to dream beyond norm. In 2008 Oct I had my photo shoot and I looked like a new person! Every meal that I missed, every party that I sat and looked around for something healthy to eat and every B'Day parties that I sneaked out of... was all paid off. My health, my look and my motivation all pushed me to think beyond norm and I started to work on sharing that knowledge to anyone who is on the lookout!

Its true that if you want something bad enough..all you have to do is decide that you really want it and everything around you will change to bring you closer to your goal.

Set-up a goal and be positive. Don't loose hope in few days cause you are not seeing the result that you expected. Everything has a time and place and things will happen if you are honest and trying hard.

Below is my picture in Nov. 2007 and then in Oct. 2008. Take a look and decide which one you would rather be!


No matter what your goal is...be it loosing weight, buying a house, or starting a business..no matter what...the first thing we need to do is to set up a goal and have the desire to work on that goal....

My next goal is make Bollywood Bootcamp a huge success and I am tirelessly working in doing just that!


Make sure you pass along this blog to anyone who needs a little motivation...we all have our own ways of getting motivated....



Take Care and remember....

First Deserve - Then Desire!

- Achal

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5 Most effective ways to train yourself without any equipment!

Q1. I Don’t have much time to workout?
Q2. I Want to develop real strength?

Do you see yourself asking these questions...if so >

Then please keep reading because in this blog I will outline the 5 Most effective ways to train yourself without any equipment! that will not only help you get stronger but also burn a lot of calories YES a lot of it!

Compound exercises are simply exercises that target more than one muscle group. For
clarity, exercises that target a single muscle group are called isolation exercises.




1. Squats : The king of all exercises

Squats not only works your lower body but they also make your HR go up so you get the benefit of weight training & Cardio at the same time.

CORRECT FORM: Make sure that when you squat your knees should never go beyond your toes. (you should be able to see your big toe over looking your knee!)

2. Push-ups: Back to basics

This exercise can be done on a chair, steps, floor while on your knees or standing up against the wall. This could be included in the workout of beginners or really advanced. I have been training for over 10 yrs now and do them every single time when I train myself. You can get a good cardio just by doing these.

CORRECT FORM: Make sure that your hands are directly below your shoulders. Aim at touching your chest to the floor keeping your body straight.

3. Lunges:

A great leg toner that will also build explosive strength in the heart and lungs.

CORRECT FORM: Keeping your back straight lung forward with one leg paying close attention to the leg that is behind you & taking your knee almost to the floor. Make sure that you don't touch the floor with you knee.

4. Jump Rope: Old is gold!

If you have a jump rope or just pretending to be holding one, this workout works like a charm. It gets your HR up..work your legs and makes you sweat. Anywhere & anytime is the beauty of this workout.

CORRECT FORM: Make sure to land softly when you are actually jumping the rope. Come down on your toes and jump back up. Either count to a certain number or time yourself.

5. Step-ups: What goes up - comes down!

If you have steps in your house then this is a killer and you don't have any excuse. Go up and down the steps 5-10 times in a 3 set format non-stop for a total body workout.

CORRECT FORM: Hold while coming down and to add a little variation try to cover 2 steps at a time.


If you follow the above described exercise routine everyday (5-6 days a week) in a 3 set format one after the other, I guarantee that you will loose weight and will feel the difference in your energy right away!

Eat right and exercise is the only Mantra for a fit body and a fit mind!

Thank you

Achal

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Effects of Sugar!

Hello Everyone!

Let me start with reason for my silence cause this blog relates to it directly.

I am working to produce an exercise video from past few months. Any new product requires lots of planning and team effort. Now that being said since this is going to be a fitness DVD so I had to look my 110% and for that I have been working really hard from past few months. I always eat good and exercise but when you are going for 110% instead of 100% you need to go an extra mile. I start digging on what will take me that extra mile and start experimenting with Sodium, Sugar, Carbs & Protein.

I was shooting my commercial for Zee TV and Sony TV on Monday Feb 2nd 09'. So I was eating really well and cutting any extra calories. I recorded every morning how I was looking and I had it in video clips how my body changed day by day. I cut my sugar intake drastically and my body responded right in front of my eyes. Day by day inch by inch I saw a huge difference in my definition.

My point here is that when we eat things we don't pay attention on small things like sodium and sugar. We only go for big numbers like calories, carbs, protein & fat but smaller numbers like sugar & sodium are equally important.

I will post pictures to give you the evidence & and will point out how and where my body responded in few days.

My shoot! went great and you all will see the commercials airing on Zee & Sony TV soon!

Thank You all I will try to be more regular with my posts....

Now go out there and workout some!

Thank you

Achal

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Nutritional Value in Indian Food

There are basically 5 major component in any diet that most people are concerned about or I should say they should be concerned about:

1. CALORIES
2. PROTEIN
3. CARBOHYDRATES
4. FAT
5. FIBER

No matter what you eat they will have some of the above items in them, In this post I will compare few of them:

Most common DESI FOOD: (All the daal's are 1/2 cup cooked)














The most common food and their nutritional value. This will help you to decide which food is better and what to avoid. I was surprised to see that a onion can have as much as 16gms of carbs and we eat things like that as if they don't hold any nutritional value. (of course its a vegetable carbs but still contains 67 cal.).

If you look at the cal. content 1 serving of daal is equal to an entire meal now think about the stuff we add to it (roti, rice, sabji) and that is the reason the cal. content goes through the roof.

So next time be careful in mixing things up (either roti or rice & use more green vegetables and less roots when you are having daal cause of the carbs)

Now go out there and workout some!

Thank you

Achal

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FAT cells--are they permanent?

Hi Everyone...

Sorry for the delayed post...I have been really busy with my bollywoodabs.com production. (If anyone knows any good South Asian content writer please let me know at achaldua@gmail.com).

So back to our topic. The fat cells that every individual have..are they permanent or can we get rid of them...to help understand this concept better I will give you a example of water balloon. Fill a balloon with water and it will weigh more and will look bigger..now take the water out and there you have a weight less and leaner balloon...this is how fat cells works. They always exists in our body even when we loose all the weight they just sit quietly in the corner waiting for fat to accumulate so they can blow up again.

Ever heard of a saying.... "Its so easy to gain weight" that's where it came from...its easy cause this ugly tissue just waiting for you to put some bad things in it and it will blow up again making you feel miserable.

Don't feel bad and discouraged! I always say that loosing weight and getting in shape is a lifestyle shift and not a month or two deal. So all of you out there thinking that I will loose this extra 10 lbs and I will be fine...remember write down every bit of your diet or workout or you lifestyle in a dairy cause One time or other you will look back in it to see what the hell you were doing that you were feeling that good or that bad.

I came across a diary from 2002 where I wrote down 1 day of my eating..man o man...I was living on carbs and then I use to think at that time why don't I see a six pack like Salman Khan..lol


Look at the picture..the first one is full blown cell with fat and last one has no fat..so here you are a fat person and a skinny person but cell remains in our body!












Now go out there and workout some!

Thank you

Achal

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Burning calories after the workout?

We all know that by training we burn more calories and that's why we see the weight loss. But do you know we burn more calories even after we train for a long period of time.

So what works best..weight training or cardio?

I will say both but there is a difference and that is how you do both....for many years researchers have theorized that the boost in metabolism comes from the body's effort to process the lactic acid produced during exercise and to replenish depleted levels of creatine phosphate. Scientist discovered that when it comes to cardio, long and slow wins the race: Duration, not intensity or mode, is the biggest factor contributing to that after-exercise metabolic rise. This is cardio and now you will ask what about weight training...

Here it is>> The same study found that the opposite is true. The more intensely you lift--which equates to heavy weights, the higher your post-workout metabolic rate.

So to go in a more easy language try to go to gym and lift intensely (safely) and after go for a long cardio session and mix it with running and walking....then afterwards enjoy the calorie burning effect for hours....

KEEP WORKING

Achal

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Study Source: Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education

5 Most effective ways to train yourself without any equipment!

Q1. I Don’t have much time to workout?
Q2. I Want to develop real strength?

Do you see yourself asking these questions...if so >

Then please keep reading because in this blog I will outline the 5 Most effective ways to train yourself without any equipment! that will not only help you get stronger but also burn a lot of calories YES a lot of it!

Compound exercises are simply exercises that target more than one muscle group. For
clarity, exercises that target a single muscle group are called isolation exercises.


1. Squats : The king of all exercises

Squats not only works your lower body but they also make your HR go up so you get the benefit of weight training & Cardio at the same time.

CORRECT FORM: Make sure that when you squat your knees should never go beyond your toes. (you should be able to see your big toe over looking your knee!)

2. Push-ups: Back to basics

This exercise can be done on a chair, steps, floor while on your knees or standing up against the wall. This could be included in the workout of beginners or really advanced. I have been training for over 10 yrs now and do them every single time when I train myself. You can get a good cardio just by doing these.

CORRECT FORM: Make sure that your hands are directly below your shoulders. Aim at touching your chest to the floor keeping your body straight.

3. Lunges:

A great leg toner that will also build explosive strength in the heart and lungs.

CORRECT FORM: Keeping your back straight lung forward with one leg paying close attention to the leg that is behind you & taking your knee almost to the floor. Make sure that you don't touch the floor with you knee.

4. Jump Rope: Old is gold!

If you have a jump rope or just pretending to be holding one, this workout works like a charm. It gets your HR up..work your legs and makes you sweat. Anywhere & anytime is the beauty of this workout.

CORRECT FORM: Make sure to land softly when you are actually jumping the rope. Come down on your toes and jump back up. Either count to a certain number or time yourself.

5. Step-ups: What goes up - comes down!

If you have steps in your house then this is a killer and you don't have any excuse. Go up and down the steps 5-10 times in a 3 set format non-stop for a total body workout.

CORRECT FORM: Hold while coming down and to add a little variation try to cover 2 steps at a time.


If you follow the above described exercise routine everyday (5-6 days a week) in a 3 set format one after the other, I guarantee that you will loose weight and will feel the difference in your energy right away!

Eat right and exercise is the only Mantra for a fit body and a fit mind!

Thank you

Achal

----------------
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www.achaldua.com
http://picasaweb.google.com/achaldua/ - my photo gallery
http://twitter.com/achaldua - read what I am doing