Shahid Kapoor : Maintaining a 6 PACK is tough

Maintaining a six-pack is tough

Shahid Kapoor, who reveals his chiselled body in his next film, has advice for fitness enthusiasts

MEENA IYER Times News Network

If 2007 was Shah Rukh Khans year to show off his newly-acquired six-pack in Om Shanti Om and 2008 Aamir Khans to reveal what an eight-pack looks like in Ghajini, then 2010 is going to be Shahid Kapoors year for possessing Bollywoods most finel-chiselled body in recent times. Salman Khan and Hrithik Roshan, of course, are the all-time Gods of The Body... but nudging them for a place on the pedestal is Shahid whose amazing physique is in ripping display in a song in UTV Motion Pictures Chance Pe Dance that releases on January 15, 2010.
Shahid, who is proud of his body, says, I wont recommend that guys try to maintain a six-pack or a eight-pack all through the year... because it is tough, believe me. However, building the eight-pack was a challenge he loved. Im inherently drawn to fitness. For me working out is a lifestyle. When Vishal Bharadwaj suggested that I get a tough look for Kaminey and Ken Ghosh said I should try and get eight-pack abs for a song in Chance Pe Dance, I had a goal to work towards. Of course, Kaminey is different from Chance Pe Dance so I have a different body-type is both films.
What is amazing is how the disciplined actor, who is a vegetarian, took on the extraordinary task of building his dream body.
For a year, Shahid altered his lifestyle completely. First he went completely low on sugar and gradually introduced himself to slowacting carbohydrates. Oats and brown rice became a regular at his dining table. And he ate his six meals a day at intervals of two-anda-half hours, religiously. I also worked out extensively, despite gruelling shooting schedules, even it meant hitting the gym at 2 am, reveals the actor of his fitness fundas. His high-intensity workout was a combination of parkour and weights, plus cardio-circuit training.
The actor, who works on changing his physicality for almost every film that he undertakes, has a word of advice to wannabe bodybuilders and fitness enthusiasts : Maintaining a sixpack is tough. Instead, follow a regular fitness regime and make sure you stay in shape, rather than aim for a six-pack . The sacrifices required to make a body like the one I have in Chance Pe Dance are immense. I would rather eat healthy and stay fit than try to flaunt a dream body all the time.