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00:21At home, I had to do all the work. I had to get water in the well, heat the water, fill the pot and take the water up and down.
00:31I had to carry the pot and bucket up and down.
00:34That must have been a lot of work.
00:36Yes, it was a lot of work.
00:38I had to fill the pot, filter the water, take the pot up and down. I had to do all the work by hand.
00:43I had to crush the spices by hand. I didn't eat the spices from the market.
00:49Did you do all the work at home?
00:51No, I didn't do all the work.
01:07I was having a lot of pain in my body.
01:11My hands and legs were aching.
01:13Then I started doing exercise.
01:16While doing exercise, my grandson Chirag came and asked me, how will you get strength?
01:24If you do some work, you will get strength.
01:28That's how I started doing this work.
01:30Before that, I used to do all the exercises by watching videos.
01:35I used to do all the exercises by listening to the sound of my hands and legs.
01:37I used to do all the exercises by sleeping upside down.
01:39I used to do all the exercises by doing Pranayam.
01:41I used to do all the exercises by moving my legs up and down.
01:44When I started doing all these exercises, I used to have a little pain in my body.
01:50But now that I have lost my strength, I have stopped doing all the exercises.
01:56Because I used to get scared that I might fall down.
02:00That's why I stopped doing all the exercises.
02:02Then I started again.
02:14The kind of workout that she was doing was essentially three days a week of weight training.
02:21She used to do full body workouts.
02:24Every day she used to do something different.
02:28Exercises that she enjoyed.
02:30So there would be things like squats.
02:32She would do rows.
02:33She would use resistance bands.
02:34She would use weights.
02:35And she has never lifted weights before.
02:38What was the reason she stopped doing the workout?
02:41She doesn't need to be afraid.
02:44I also used to get scared.
02:46I used to question myself about how I would lift weights.
02:48I used to ask her to practice slowly.
02:52She would place a small object down to lift the weights.
02:55She used to place the water bottle.
02:57She would lift 2 bottles.
02:58And put the younger one on top.
02:59And then I would place the old one on the bottom.
03:01Then I would increase the weight.
03:03Today I had to lift 5kgs of bottles.
03:06I had a button on my feet.
03:07Then I did more.
03:08Then I did more.
03:09Now I do it for half an hour.
03:10Training has really helped her maintain muscle, have the strength to do what she wants to
03:22do, all the activities.
03:23She is now able to sit down on the floor which she wasn't able to do for the last three years.
03:27She's been on a wheelchair.
03:28She's been walking around but not being able to get down to the floor.
03:32So now, just in two to three months of training, she's been able to go down to the floor, get
03:38back up on her own without much effort.
03:41And that's where training has really had an impact on her.
03:52There's a common myth that goes around that seniors should not lift weights.
03:56But that couldn't be further from the truth.
03:59What's important is that training is really important to you because it helps you preserve
04:04as much strength, muscle and bone as possible.
04:07And as you grow older, you want to hold on to that so that you can continue to do what
04:12you want to do every day.
04:13So things like daily activities.
04:29Boots, baby.
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