Yasmin Karachiwala reveals her secrets on weight loss and fitness

How is it training with celebrities? Who is your favorite celeb client? Why?
Training celebrities are always fun as they have certain looks they need to do for a movie or a song. I don't have any favourites they all work extremely hard even though they have extremely busy schedules. My favourite transformations would be - The time I worked with Katrina Kaif to achieve her 'Sheila ki Jawaani' look. Getting Alia Bhatt ready for her bikini scene in Shaandaar and Deepika Padukone's training for her Hollywood film 'xXx: Return of Xander Cage'

What are some of the common challenges you face with celebrity clients?
It always fun training celebrities to achieve their various looks for different roles. It keeps me on my toes to think differently and make new workouts. They work extremely hard despite their shooting schedules and so I have to sometimes come to work and 12 and 1 at night also.

Tell us something about Yasmin's Body Image?
Yasmin's Body Image is a place that is extremely personalised to your goals. My team and I discuss every workout before its made and for what purpose we give an exercise to a client. Be it in the gym or in Pilates we work with different types of clients with different body compositions and so we plan a workout accordingly.

What is that one fitness tip you swear by?
To be mobile and active. We are too sedentary and we need to move to try doing at least 6k steps per day. Don't sit for too long stand walk around and just be active!

What is your fitness mantra?
Be fit because you deserve it.

What are your tips for people who want to lose weight?

• Move: Be active throughout the day take the stairs, walk around the office just move
• Eat smart: We all know what foods to avoid like sweets, fried etc and eat healthy lots of veggies, fruit, lean protein and good fats
• Strength Train: Even own body weight exercises you don't need to go to the gym
• Hydrate: You need to drink 8 - 10 glasses of water most people don't know but if you are thirsty that means your body is already dehydrated so keep drinking water
• Attitude: Be positive and believe you can do it and you will!

 

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A post shared by Yasmin Karachiwala (@yasminkarachiwala) onOct 25, 2017 at 10:36am PDT

 

Booty Challenge exercises as requested by some of you... 1. Modified Squat: to give you an idea how low to go. 2. Squat 3. Bridge 4. Forward Lunge #befitbecauseyoudeserveit #yasminfitnessmantra #YasminsBodyImage #BeFitwithYasminKarachiwala #fitnessgoals #CelebrityTrainer #bootychallenge #Pilates #PilatesMasterTrainer #PilatesIndia

A post shared by Yasmin Karachiwala (@yasminkarachiwala) onDec 2, 2017 at 9:55pm PST

 

It's so easy to keep a track of my workouts with my @FitbitIN. Whether it's #Pilates or #Gym, love my #Fitbit #Charge2 and all that it does for me! #TeamFitbit #befitbecauseyoudeserveit #yasminfitnessmantra #YasminsBodyImage #BeFitwithYasminKarachiwala #Pilates #PilatesIndia #PilatesMasterTrainer #CelebrityTrainer #fitnessgoals

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