Imagine if someone told you to lift dumbbells,
but just do it really slowly.
While breathing.
My name is Arundhati
and my relationship with the gym is a joke.
Hi! I'm Sonia and
it's only in the past year that I have just started enjoying working out a little more than usual.
Katrina Kaif is really good-looking.
By looking at her I can only sense that she works out a lot,
because she used to get fit-shamed a lot
when she entered the industry, she was more muscular than
other actresses or, like, she looked way fitter.
I think she does everything, like, I think out of twenty-four hours, for ten hours she works out.
I am expecting my body to hurt every single day for the next thirty days.
Katrina works out a lot. I don't know if I'll be able to do it.
Hey guys, I am Yasmin Karachiwala.
I've been in the fitness space for the last 26 years.
Yea that is how old I am. Good one.
You are going to be training with me for the next thirty days.
Your profile includes Alia Bhatt, Katrina Kaif, Deepika Padukone.
What kind of workout does each one do and especially
Katrina Kaif who has been known for being so fit.
So we make short-term goals, which is what I do with all of my celebs.
Katrina does everything.
She'll do crazy functional training, she'll do crazy cardio, and then she'll do crazy amounts of Pilates.
It just depends where she is in her body.
Pilates looks very intimidating because there are so many machines that look very simple but suddenly someone is upside down on it.
In layman's terms, Pilates is a combination of strength training and yoga.
You are working on flexibility and strength at the same time.
So guys, after all your questions, are you ready?
I guess. Yea. Kind of.
Come on, let's start then.
This is one of my favourite machines.
It really makes you aware of your alignment.
Don't move the elbows and five, and bend, last one, and bend.
Ok. So that was your warm-up.
Elbows open, five, you've to use your obliques. Six, come on, come on, seven.
Take your hands in front.
Those are your legs.
Oh...sorry.
Sonia, are you ok?
We are still alive.
And you're going to take something and then throw it. Go, go, go Arundhati, without smiling.
And pull, and bring it with you, extending.
Four more and let's go.
That's taking your butt with you.
And exhale. Come back to the center.
Thank you. Nice meeting you, Yasmin.
It's day one. It's 7 a.m. and guess where we are?
This is our workout for day one.
Just got done with day one and it wasn't bad at all. It was really fun.
Can have some water.
I do need water.
Thank you to my competitor, Sonia. Did you like the class?
We are not competing.
We are. I'm winning.
Wow, looks like we are the only ones who are excited about working out.
Open, stabilise your pelvis, close.
Together, go down.
Sonia, you can raise your leg a bit.
When it was on the mat for two-three days, initial days,
my energy levels were like ok. I'm doing it because I committed to it.
The exercises were super basic.
It felt like a regular yoga session, but lighter.
For the past two days I've been finding this really easy and was able to do everything.
Today, though, was intense.
We've not moved like this.
Inhale. Inhale up, circle.
We started doing exercises on the reformer, which is my favourite machine of all time.
The reformer is like, this L-shaped thing.
We lie down over here and we just go up-down, up-down, horizontally, like this.
Which is what looks cool in all these Pilates videos.
So today we have an instrument called the chair and it looks nothing like a chair.
What do you think, Aru?
We'll have fun.
There were some parts of our muscles which were getting suddenly activated
but we wouldn't sweat at the end of the workout. It didn't feel like we had worked out at all.
After any exercise I'm like, extremely high, I'm running around.
I'm high on energy, but after this, I would go home, take a nap, get ready, and come to work.
We are halfway there. Six classes done, six to go.
It's getting more intense and more fun. I'm starting to like it even more now.
The second half of the month was when things started getting more intense.
Everything we did on the mat, even though it was on the mat, it wasn't similar to yoga. I wasn't used to it.
There were sudden muscles in my thighs that I didn't know existed.
It is called a "wonder chair" and we did exercises on that and everything on the chair was difficult
We were back on the reformer today and I really enjoy it so much.
I was just, like, relaxed.
It is the best form of exercise. It is the best machine.
We are so used to like, hearing your instructor say that "Sit straight" or "Don't move your pelvis", "Tuck down your tail bone."
That you kinda start using it in your real life also,
like, while at work also, as soon as I realise oh I'm slouching, I would be like ok.
At some points I was like, holy shit, I didn't know my inner thighs could hurt that much.
Suddenly I realised I was exercising muscles that I usually don't.
Just when you start enjoying something, life takes it away from you.
So now I'm like, what will I do after Pilates? What is the purpose of my life?
This was an analogy I used to describe Pilates to a friend the other day.
Where I said, imagine if someone told you to lift dumbbells but just do it really slowly.
While breathing.
Today is our last class and I feel like crying.
The physical transformation was my strength.
My core strength improved.
We were told that Katrina has been doing Pilates for years.
When we see her Instagram workouts and we see her being like, super chill and, like, graceful on the reformer.
Whereas when you're there you're just shaking. Hoping you don't lose your balance.
It's not achievable unless you have the kind of time, the kind of resources, and
the kind of dedicated trainers that she has at her disposal.
You know, if you want to work out like Katrina Kaif, you have to probably be Katrina Kaif.
First of all, today we did the most difficult exercise.
It looked so easy, so effortless, but I just couldn't do it.
There's a reason Katrina is Katrina.
Let's be real, there is no way I could've afforded Pilates on my own.
I would definitely do Pilates again if I have the resources, if I have the chance, if I'm able to afford it.
It's completely different from a gym. Way more fun, way more intense.
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