Fitness is about building your strength and stamina, says Actress Sahher Bambba

For me fitness is more about your mental wellbeing, because I work out just to feel good. I like the adrenaline rush and the happiness which I feel after the workout. Fitness is about building your strength and stamina. It’s what fitness is for me.

I do yoga 3-4 times a week, apart from this I do a mix of functional training and weight training. That’s what I do.

I am a strong believer that fitness and diet go hand in hand. So, I keep a track of what I eat and what I don’t want to eat. I kickstart the day with either apple cider vinegar with water or lemon with water followed by my breakfast and my coffee. After a little break, I start with my workout. I like to complete my workout in the first half of the day. Sometimes in the evening if I have an off, I go on a jog, because I have been a sprinter in school.

It is not like that. Since I am from Shimla, I am used to walking long distances and also, I went to a boarding school, which was like an army school. I used to wake up at 5 in the morning and then run all around the campus. So, in that sense, I love jogging and running. I have not been a trained as a sprinter

My fitness mantra would be, ‘You must eat right’. I have seen this with a lot of people, including some of my friends. They work out and they think of celebrating with some sort of sweets or junk food. I believe diet has 80% of impact on your fitness.

As I have said, it is apple cider vinegar with water, or half a lemon with water since apple cider vinegar has a strong taste. After that I take my breakfast, Since I am a vegan, so I have to make sure that I take good source of protein, so in breakfast I take oats with almond milk or oats milk, or a tofu sandwich or sometimes I also eat parathas, I love them.

Many people take salads in every meal of their day and avoid rice or parathas or stuff like that. I don’t know how they survive with that only. Although I have also been on that kind of diet because there was a phase when I had to lose a lot of weight due to some physical issues. I remember there was a doctor/dietitian who put me on that diet, and I used to have salads and no carbs at all. Because of that I used to stay cranky throughout the day, so I don’t know how people follow that kind of diet.

Ever since my childhood, my first love has been dance than acting. In school I did many dance performances. My school only allowed Kathak and Semi-classical forms of dance, which is why we would only do that, and that is the reason I have a good hang of Kathak and Indian semi-classical.

Now, I like both dance and acting equally, and as an actor you also get to dance.

I don’t know if I can contribute, but I feel like a lot of youngsters should explore yoga, because everybody has this notion that yoga is very boring, but I think everyone should give yoga a shot.

I think Malaika Arora, I feel she is so fit and she’s great. There is also Shilpa Shetty.

I am inspired by many people that I can give you a list of. In particular, I admire Alia Bhatt’s work a lot. I think she is so effortless and so natural In front of camera.

I will be talking about it in the first week of March and besides that I have a music video coming up with Emraan Hashmi and B Praak.