Saturday, February 9, 2013

Abuzar, How I miss you?



“Appa, how do I look?”

Beaming ear to ear moving my body side to side giving my Appa an all round glimpse of my dolled up self, hoping to hear him say, you look GREAT

And what do I get in return.. “OMG you are slowly turning into a mini elephant!  What happened to my daughter??? Remember the time, when you used to look like Shilpa Shetty?? So thin, so tall and so beautiful!!! ? You need exercise..,” My Mum joins in at this point to add, “Oh and you don’t even dance at home any more, this Kathak has only made you FAT… look at your father, he still wakes up every morning, every single day and exercise’s, what……..” At this point I slowly stop listening to them, or you could say my sheer unsaturated FAT traveled all the way from my supposedly bloated face and botched arms into my ear drums and clogged them, making me DEAF!!!!


GASP! So I am FAT! This is a shocker, I mean, common I used to model in college, people used to say I had the perfect figure… and more importantly, what the hell happened? Looking the mirror and gauging my reflection, I am SHOCKED to see this FAT CAT, yes a fat cat, much like a very pampered and babied offspring of a cross breed between a plump Persian feline and a lazy Peke-Faced tomcat instead of my previously well toned 
and fit body!


What I am going to DO?!?! Well, I hated exercising!

Yes I hated it. With a staunch and unwavering passion.

I thought who in the right mind would knowingly make themselves sweat, get tired and huff and puff for a normal breath of oxygen?? But nonetheless I HAD to do something about my renewed state of bodily affairs. So what do I do? For starters I dreamt, of a machine, wherein I could simply lie down, relax and ponder over life’s many uncertainties, complexities or maybe even about my next blog entry!! And while I would think of ways to make the world a better place, this machine would magically cut into my fat, tone away the unflattering curves, and eat into other such unpleasantness!

Ahh… This was but, my first stage, the stage of procrastination and avoiding the job at hand, this went on for a while, until I realized that most of my gorgeous dresses and blouses where all… ahem, TIGHT!  I could no longer do this to myself! Right? OF COURSE I couldn’t… but again I just slept on it! But come July 27th 2012, a hectic Friday morning, it all just came rushing to me… This was a time, three very important people in my life where on a holiday, my mum, my brother and my dear friend, I was cooking, cleaning, sulking and missing them all terribly, and suddenly I said to my Appa, “Appa, let’s go to the GYM, I want to join!!!”

Don’t ask me what got into me, but that realization changed a lot of things for me… By early afternoon, I had enrolled, shopped around for comfortable gym clothes (shopping is inevitable! Don’t you know that by now?!?) and I had visited the gym for the first time in so many years!!!

It’s not the machines, it’s not the fancy equipments and the treadmills of the world that got me hooked! It is ABUZAR! The Man and his wonderful class of Body combat changed my Life! At every point in life I have something I get unbelievably attached and bonded to! Photography, blogging, sketching and many more things have at different timelines all being extremely important to ME.
The first time I walked into the Body Combat class, I was shocked to see a group of 40 to 50 odd people all screaming on top of their lungs, to HA’s, HO’s and HEY’s and jumping, kicking, cross punching as though their very existence depended on IT. It was beautiful to see all these people vehemently and dedicatedly working to keep themselves fitter, healthier and stronger! I was ashamed to see old aunties, uncles and as well as people with disabilities all trying their level best to keep up with the class whereas I used to think of ways to avoid exercising!! Just as I stood there contemplating and analyzing, this extremely sweaty and energetic man standing high up on a podium gestured me to join in. That was Abuzar! This handsome Iranian man is undoubtedly the best body combat teacher I have seen in all my months working out.

For those of you who are wondering what Body combat is all about…. Well it is an empowering cardio workout inspired by The Martial Arts.  This class incorporates disciplines such as Karate, Boxing, Tae Kwon Do, Tai Chi, and Muay Thai for a fierce calorie burning workout. It is a fiercely energetic martial arts workout wherein you are left feeling totally UNLEASHED and EMPOWERED.

It is an exceptionally FUN and EXCITING CLASS! An adrenaline pumped, and action-packed class. Abuzar and body combat made me love to sweat and pant, it made me feel empowered and inspired. It also a wonderful way to get the negativity and hatred out of you and makes you live the life of FIGHTER! I have always secretly (NOT quiet) wanted to get into a physical fight, get into the life of a soldier, a fighter in the ring, both in mind and spirit and my body combat sessions headed by the fierce Abuzar has helped me get a taste of exactly that and also has gotten me addicted to IT!!!

Both A and B (Abuzar and Body Combat) have both helped me appreciate the beauty in Losing!!! The beauty and the happiness in losing WATER content, losing INCHES, losing WEIGHT and at the same time, gaining my HAPPINESS and gaining an INTEREST IN EXERCISING, to the extent of working out for straight THREE HOURS!!!

But as all good things in my life, A and B have been on Hold for the past two months! Thanks to me not feeling all that well, and being down under, I have been missing both! That being said, I was still FIGHTING, fighting to get back on my feet, after this terrible fiasco that I was in!!!

Now that I have gotten myself OUT of all this, I can’t wait to get back to IT! I am ready with my shoes, my combat wear, my raring to go attitude and a smile as I head towards my mission, what mission did you ask?

Well MISSION HOTNESS!!! – woot woot!!!