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Anant Ambani's Fitness Trainer: Healthy and efficient living (free from pain) depends on the joints, as they help one live an active and independent life. Young or old, your joints are important in movement, flexibility, as well as balance. Celebrity fitness trainer Vinod Channa, who assisted Anant and Nita Ambani with their weight loss adventures, explains in a recent Instagram post a surprisingly simple yet powerful approach to keep joints strong practising everyday movements such as sitting cross-legged and squatting. Given that, according to him, these fundamental poses can go a long way in enhancing mobility, eliminating stiffness, and generally feeling much better.
Vinod explains in his post, "I tell people who come to the bot centre that they don't do any intense or beneficial workouts. Whether it's getting up, sitting down, some agility work, speed, endurance, or power, they avoid it."
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He adds, "The main reason for this is that nowadays, everybody sits at a 90-degree angle, and the lower body strength required for squatting has been lost. Their ankles, knees, hip joints, core strength, and elbows are all weak. That's why they struggle with getting up, sitting down, and performing agility movements. They don't even spend a full hour in 24 hours doing basic human activities like walking or moving around."
Highlighting the importance of simple routines, he says, "Even a simple hour of walking in a day is enough to maintain your joint and overall body strength. The lack of this is the reason for weakness. So whenever you get a chance, sit down to eat in a squatting position."
Calling it the most natural way to use the body, Vinod concludes, "This is the traditional Indian style and is the best way; it engages elbows, wrists, shoulders, and hip joints while eating. Always try to use your joints and muscles whenever you get the opportunity."
The trainer of Anant Ambani is trying to stress the idea that it is not always necessary to use complex training programs and costly gym training devices to defend against joint disorders.Rather, individual and careful lifestyle modifications will be of assistance.Two ancient Indian postures, sitting cross-legged (or Sukhasana, which also means sitting cross-legged in yoga) and squatting, were shown as natural poses that can be practised by people in their everyday lives.
Squatting and the cross-legged position both can seem simple, but the effect they have on the body is impressive. Among the main advantages are:
The trainer recommends one begin short and start extending with time. The first thing that you can do is to sit cross-legged on your floor for a few minutes a day at meals, meditation times, reading time and so on. Likewise, you can also make a habit of resisting bodyweight squats with an emphasis on posture and breathing. As time goes by, these movements become accessible and comfortable.