I am Afreen Khan a 32-years-old from Bangalore. I have been married for last 9 years and I am a mother of 5-year-old. I am entrepreneur by profession and fitness influencer by passion. I have recently been featured by Decathlon Sports India. I have led my life on my own terms. I have had the pleasure of working with corporate giants like Microsoft as their empanelled technical trainings partner. However my passion towards fitness has driven my life in a very different direction.
I have won the title of Mrs. India Earth Face of South 2018 and was specially acknowledged for my physical strength in the pageant when I surprised the judges in the fitness round by doing clap and single arm pushups on the stage. Being an entrepreneur is my profession but being a fitness enthusiast is something that depicts my personality on the whole.
I have lost 15 kg weight and I am learning calisthenics. I proved myself that you do not need to be a sportsperson to keep yourself fit; you can be a business owner, a working professional and yet be as fit as an athlete.
I was brought up in a Punjabi family; food was always a big part of my life and still is. The difference being, I have learnt not to starve but eat as per my body requirements. After becoming a mother I did not just gain immense weight but lost my self-confidence as a woman when my own friends started making fun of me calling me a big fat Punjabi having a midlife crisis. On top of that when I started losing weight, the same people criticised me for doing it to please others. When I realised I need to do things for myself according to myself. So what started just as a shallow attempt to look thinner became my strongest perspective towards life in general, it made me stronger not just physically but mentally too.
I work out 5 to 6 days a week and start my day early by doing strength training for around 90 minutes and then continue my official work. That one hour in the gym is my time and I don’t let anything take that away from me.
When my child was a year old and I started feeling weakness in my body so much that I could barely stand carrying her. It got worse as I suffered medical concerns like low BP, slip disc etc. in an early age. I found myself losing my identity as a woman and that scared me because I have a daughter and I had to set the right example for her to follow. Now my daughter is my biggest supporter and she works out with me when I train at home. She enjoys watching me fit and is learning about the importance of health at such a young age.
I do a combination of cardio and strength training. I love doing compound movements like deadlifts but right now my focus is calisthenics. I am learning body weight training and that is the reason I am much stronger from inside than I was when I did only weight lifting.I feel that strength when doing movements like push ups and headstands which are not easy to perform as they need core strength.
I do carb-cycling when I feel like I have hit a plateau but other than that I follow intermittent fasting on a regular basis wherein I follow a 16 hour fasting and 8 hour eating window. My regular diet includes chicken salad, 16 eggs and 2 chapattis with veggies a day.
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