Tradionally, India is not known as a great sporting nation where the fitness and life styles are not in sync with each other or even it's sporting heroes are not known for extreme agility.
But, renowned sport scientist and EQ Consultant Shyamal Vallabhjee believes that the attitude is slowly changing in India and especially the running culture is growing in the country.
Addressing some running enthusiasts at a hotel here on Wednesday, he said, "with the running workshops being conducted regularly and the half marathons getting popular in many cities, things are changing. Also, for the sportspersons, they are now able to quantify the datas of sports sciences on a serious note. With all the advancement of technology and the development of sports throughout the world, Indian athletes are also starting to stress on the aspects of physiology, diets and other experts ides to enhance their performance," Shymal, who has India's only high performance centre in Mumbai, said.
Shyamal has worked with the South African cricket and Davis cup teams, Indian cricket team in 2003 World Cup, Indian Olympics contingent in 2008 and 2012 and deals with India's elite tennis stars like leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi, Somdev Devvarman, Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza.
He reckons that the formula of success of longevity of multi-Grand Slam winner Paes is that the 1996 Olympics bronze medallist is a naturally fit person and at present India's number one singles player Somdev is the fittest player.
During the event, Shyamal talked about Puma's products like Nightcat Running Jacket and Glow Running Shirt and PUMATRAC, a unique running supplication for the iphone to help during workout.