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April 28, 2018 By Anusha Subramanian Leave a Comment

“Pursue one sport or an activity like dancing and choose to lead a healthy lifestyle”-Kashvi Khurana

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Kashvi during Active Sunday in Gurgaon

When we see kids playing on the playground, we know very well that these kids are active and love to move around. The benefits of being active as a kid are plenty namely developing strong bones and muscles, weight control, better sleep and a better attitude towards life as they grow up.

Today, we are featuring one such child – Kashvi Khurana, as one of our active Sunday players from Gurgaon.

All of 11 years old, Kashvi’s journey to be active started when she got selected in her school sports team (Athletics -Track and Field) and since then she’s been asking her mother for a fitness tracking device. Then one day her normal digital watch broke down and that is when her mother Nishi Khurana decided to replace the digital watch with a fitness tracker-‘GOQii’ after comparing many other trackers available in the market. Kashvi’s happiness knew no bounds.

Kashvi has made few lifestyle changes such as having at least one fruit each day. She has also increased the protein portions of her diet (especially dals). While she has made some progress on drinking at least 2 litres of water daily and reducing processed food intake, she has not completely achieved the target set for her on these two parameters.

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It’s nice to note that an 11-year-old is all gung-ho to wake up early on a Sunday morning and go for an outdoor exercise session. So what inspires Kashvi to do that? He mother says that initially, it was the 1000 GOQii cash that was an attraction to register for the first time. But, when she actually started attending she loved working out with the fantastic group. The Gurgaon Active Sunday group shares a great camaraderie, and they laugh and have fun while exercising. She made great friends despite being the only kid present among adults in the first few sessions.

It’s not only on Sunday’s that Kashvi is active. On a daily basis, she has a very active lifestyle. She is part of the school sports team and has daily practice (moderate to intense) every morning Monday to Saturday from 6:00 am to 7:30 am. Apart from that, Kashvi has been training in Kathak for 6 years and has classes twice a week on Wednesdays and Saturdays for an hour each. She has also been training in roller speed skating (professional inline) and classes twice a week on Tuesday and Thursday for an hour and a half. Sunday was actually the only free day on her calendar and she willingly chooses to participate in Active Sundays.

Kashvi has been focusing on being healthy and fit and loves all kinds of sports activities. Her message to all is at least pursue one sport or physical activity like dancing etc. and choose to lead a healthy lifestyle.

April 21, 2018 By Anusha Subramanian Leave a Comment

Key to good health is practising a good lifestyle

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IT’S NOT A DIET

IT’S NOT A PHASE

IT’S A PERMANENT LIFESTYLE CHANGE

Lifestyle change works for all provided one is determined to make that change. Be it blood pressure, heart ailment, diabetes or even cancer, a lifestyle change has provided the most effective and sustainable result. Many think that making a lifestyle change is an arduous task but, there are few others who think otherwise and are very determined to make that change so as to have a good life in the future. Vilas Lange from Ahmedabad is one such gentleman who decided he wanted to change his lifestyle if he wanted a healthy life in the future.

His journey started with getting a tracking device a year ago, His goal was to reduce his weight and triglycerides. the tracking device GOQii also provided him the coach and doctor facility who helped him initially start with basic exercise and nutrition. Exerciing daily has helped him reach his target step count of 10000 to 12000 steps daily and right nutrition that helped him reduce his weight from 86 kegs to 79 kegs.

Vilas has had an issue of high triglycerides for past 11 years. His triglycerides are very high (@450) however, since being on the GOQii platform he has been able to control it and bring down a bit and is currently working on reducing this further with the help and guidance of his coach, GOQii doctor Andy his personal doctor.

Vilas now follows an exercise regime of walking at least 25 Kim’s a day and on Sundays he works out with the Active Sunday group for an hour.According to him Actove Sunday is a wonderful platform or concept where an inidividual gets to meet like minded individual who motivate and learn each other.

His message to the community is loud and clear ‘Stay Fit to be healthy’

April 14, 2018 By Anusha Subramanian Leave a Comment

From couch to running Marathons

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It has been rightly said that you will never achieve your goal if you never try. And, this is exactly what Rajneesh Sharma of Hyderabad has experienced. Rajneesh was lazy and how and had no control over his food habits. He weighed 98kgs and had no exercise routine. Weekends were all about being lazier. Rajneesh Kumar Sharma from Hyderabad felt there was an urgent need to reverse his life but, did not know where and how to start. Last year mid-October it began with him joining the GOQii platform. He was introduced to being disciplined in life, eating right, sleeping on time, exercising etc and the direct impact of all this was that his health got better. His weight dropped to 85 kgs and from being a lazy person sitting on the couch, he is today a very active person. He works out 5 days a week. From not being able to run even for 1 minute, Rajneesh now runs 7 km in 34 minutes. His weekends are also active. His life is reversed for the better. Now Rajneesh aspires to be fitter. He is more active now on weekends as well and Sunday mornings he looks forward to attending the Active Sunday. He says, it is not about just exercising and being active on a Sunday morning, it’s also about meet and talk to people from different lifestyles and listen to their stories and get motivated. Rajneesh has started participating in various Runs organized in Hyderabad. He is happy about the fact that people around him have noticed a lot of change in him.

His fitness message to all is “Don’t give up. Nothing comes easy in life, you have to sweat it out”.

April 7, 2018 By GOQii Editor Leave a Comment

“Be motivated, motivate others, learn and stay Fit”-Ruturaj

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Fit is not a destination but, it should be a way of life.

My fitness journey started with training for my first 21 km Half Marathon. However, I was finding it difficult to change my routine because of the lifestyle I was leading. This is when I came across GOQii and as I started interacting with my personalized coach on the GOQii app. My coach motivated me and took the effort to push me to change my lifestyle, from controlling my diet, avoiding unhealthy food, eating right, eating on time, building a fitness routine, having pre & post workout meals, etc. Thanks to GOQii, I lost 7 Kgs in 4 Months. I am learning to play Squash on Weekends. All these changes have helped me immensely and I thoroughly enjoyed my routine with the help of GOQii. For me working out on Sunday’s is an ode to my coach who has put in so much effort to make me fit. Another big reason for waking up on a Sunday morning early and going for group work out session is because I love meeting new people, sharing my knowledge and getting some knowledge back to stay fit. Active Sunday for me is all about enthusiasm to learn new exercises and new things about nutrition and fitness. His message to all is be motivated, motivate others, learn, and stay Fit.