Anita Raaj, Warda Nadiadwala: Meet the women who lift

Updated On: 17 February, 2021 11:48 AM IST | Mumbai | The Hitlist Team

Raising the bar of what an athletic body could look like way past 40, Anita Raaj, 58, and Warda Nadiadwala, 45, on developing functional strength.

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Fancy a 61-minute plank, like Anita Raaj

Negotiation skills can best be tested under a plank hold. When your own weight drags you down, the mental tools you employ to hold on for “just a few more seconds”, go a long way in defining your grit, and athletic levels. Evidently then, we are eager to get in on the mental conversation Anita Raaj had with herself when holding a plank for 61 minutes. “That’s a good question. Nobody has ever asked me that,” she teases, before adding, “I am into Buddhist chanting, and, in that one hour, I derived a lot of strength from meditation.”

Raaj’s workouts are not for the faint-hearted, encompassing everything from CrossFit, and pure lifting, to body-weight training and HIIT routines. “I have been training since my 20s, even though my routines were never as strenuous as they are, now. Back then, weight-lifting was something only men did. It was only in 1995 that I started lifting, with Pervez Mistry. Yasmin [Karachiwala] and I would go to him. I was fascinated to see that he was teaching women how to lift. Given my passion for training, I worked with him. In the beginning, I needed a guru who could understand the right technique. When I saw how my muscles developed, and noticed my body’s shape change, there was no looking back,” says the actor.

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