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While most celebrities speak at length about how they spend hours in the gym to get in shape and stay fit, model-turned actor Milind Soman has a different approach to fitness. Gymming, he says, does not work for him.
“I have never liked going to the gym. I like the outdoors. I like to run. In gym I feel restricted. When I exercise in open, it gives me a certain freedom and pushes me to do more,” he told IANS.
He was 50 when he won Ironman in 2015, and he would go onto do the seemingly impossible, winning Ultraman two years later.
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“It does not mean I am against gymming. It depends upon person to person. Some people are very much comfortable working out in gyms. Basically, it is all about movement. If you are comfortable moving in a gym, that is absolutely fine. But gymming does not work for me. I don’t like carrying those weights and and doing workouts on those heavy machines,” Milind, who is a fitness enthusiast and an avid runner, said.
The 53-year-old successfully completed Ironman Challenge in 2015 and later bagged the Ultraman title by completing the Florida Ultraman 2017 challenge, which which involved 423 km of cycling, a 10-km swim and an 84-km ultra-marathon. Incidentally, he won the challenge by participating barefoot.
Sharing why does he love to run barefoot, Milind said: ” It (running barefoot) increases my efficiency as a runner. It helps me to maintain proper balance and coordination, and it feels great when my feet touch the ground.”
Milind is also a founder of Pinkathon, India’s women marathon. He is now all set to come up with the seventh edition of the marathon in Delhi on September 8.