Get Off Your Arse: A ran-dumb blog to get you moving, by a bit of a nudge and a bit of a push.

Transforming to a nation of leaders than followers
Rajat Chauhan Rajat Chauhan

Transforming to a nation of leaders than followers

No one is extra-ordinary. Actions are!: Last weekend, while the thousands ran Mumbai marathon, 3 ordinary working class Indians, made their way to Brazil135 ultra marathon, and made India proud. Followers had become leaders. That is the need of the hour.

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New look Back 2 Fitness
Rajat Chauhan Rajat Chauhan

New look Back 2 Fitness

I had planned to have 100 centres across the country in 10 years. The first one was to start in Bangalore, and it did. I sat in Cafe Coffee Day in Total Mall, Sharjahpur Road, Bangalore, along with my friend Satya and scribbled a name on a tissue paper. Back 2 Fitness.

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Exercising & Running with Heavy Menstrual Bleeding
Rajat Chauhan Rajat Chauhan

Exercising & Running with Heavy Menstrual Bleeding

A quarter to one-third of ladies experience heavy menstrual bleeding (periods). As if the society had done enough harm to repeatedly remind them that sports and exercises are very unladylike, these ‘painful’ periods acts like a massive deterrent to be themselves.

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Are Insoles (Orthotics) The New Saviours For Your Feet & Running?
Rajat Chauhan Rajat Chauhan

Are Insoles (Orthotics) The New Saviours For Your Feet & Running?

No amount of stability whether in-built in running shoes from the best brands or customised insoles (orthotics) are going to give you a long term solution. Only when you move and load those foot arches, similar to muscles in the rest of your body and even mind, will they get strong.

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Finding a NEW YOU. Pro-Actively.
Rajat Chauhan Rajat Chauhan

Finding a NEW YOU. Pro-Actively.

Most of us have been told by the so-sigh-tea (others or yourselves) that we can’t get fit. We then spend a lifetime proving that prophecy right. As part of the 10th edition I invite folks, who’ve struggled over and over again, to crawl-walk-run 555 kms (the longest category at the the 10th edition of La Ultra - The High) in next 321 days (as of 1st Oct 2018) and make ‘Impossible’ yell, ‘I’m Impossible’. 

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Runners’ High
Rajat Chauhan Rajat Chauhan

Runners’ High

A runner high on running, who ran run when shouldn’t have, ended up losing a bit of weight. But yet smiling.

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For Depression denial or outsourcing aren't solutions, Moving is
Rajat Chauhan Rajat Chauhan

For Depression denial or outsourcing aren't solutions, Moving is

Depression doesn’t go away by being pressed away and is a real problem. An extremely big one at that. Here I share a recent Facebook Live conversation and a co-authored column in my series ‘Run & Bee’ in Hindustan Times with Divya Parashar, a psycho-analyst at Indian Spinal Injuries Centre.

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False sense of over-achievemnt leads to life long mess-ups
Leadership Rajat Chauhan Leadership Rajat Chauhan

False sense of over-achievemnt leads to life long mess-ups

2018 CBSE results‬ show that enormous number of students have scored above 90%. Good for them for having worked so hard. But are we giving them a false sense of over-achievement, soon followed by sense-of-entitlement. If they think there is no room for improvement, they stop improving.
Failure is the biggest teacher. It is inevitable you are going to face it in life. How you tackle being in the dumps and then bouncing back is what shows your true character.

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