Pradeekumar Yadav

Nagpurian Mehre successfully finishes Ironman in Western Australia By Pradeepkumar Yadav NAGPUR’S Mayank Mehre, working as a Bank Manager in New Delhi, has become second athlete from Central India to successfully finish the Ironman race. He achieved the feat last Sunday by completing the tough SunSmart Ironman Western Australia held at Busselton, Western Australia. Dr Amit Samarth holds the honour of completing the Ironman in Western Australia last year. SunSmart Ironman Western Australia is considered an important race on the Ironman calendar since over a decade. Twenty-six-year-old Mehre did extremely well to complete the full Ironman in 13 hours, 44 minutes, 37 seconds. Over 1300 athletes from over 40 countries took part in the race. The Ironman constitutes of 3.8km swimming followed by 180 kms of cycling and a full marathon run of 42.2 kms. All the three categories are to be completed in 17 hours. Mayank completed the race well before the scheduled time despite having a...

Many times I come across on a question of diet plan. In today's world diet plan is followed strictly and many dieticians are getting involved in the sports world to use their knowledge on the sports players to make them fit.                 Being a cricket coach, I came across many dieticians with whom I shared my player's diet chart and ask them to improvise it. I got many suggestions for diet plans but some were getting effective, while some were getting failed. Nowadays, we see players are using supplementary food items to balance the diet comprising high protein, high carbohydrate, or high-fat diets/foods. But I used to ask myself is it the right way to increase ones energy and power. So, I researched and followed some top-notch sporting personalities and local players daily diet routine and came to a conclusion.                  A plant-based diet is one of the best diet plan which...

"Its 8:00pm shall we start the class now." Topic was paper 1 of National eligibility Test (NET). Students from different college and university were allowed to attend this classes. 2 in the morning, break was taken and again on 2:15am sharply the class begins. Not a single student complaint anything. There was a cool morning breeze and the birds were chirruping. The class was in full flow and everyone was focusing on the lecture. When the topic was coming to the end, needles of the clock were coming close. And finally the clock tik on 8 am, and  topic got over. No one had ever thought that they will become a part of history by sitting in a class for 12 consecutive hours. Till yet no one had taken class as long as this. The person who was behind this scene is Known for his teaching skills, he brought many laurels for his family and Nagpur city. He is a Teaching Machine of Nagpur University, Dr.  Anilkumar Karwande, former Principal of Ishwar Deshmukh College of Phy...

The mantra of “no pain, no gain,” is a motivator for some, however, it can be dangerous when taken to the extreme. Doing cricket coaching from last 12 years, I have come across many players who overdo exercises. By taking tips from well-known fitness trainers in India, I prepare a schedule for them. But despite that, they have a myth that they need to train more to improve their strength and this results in injury or muscle pain. Players need to understand that overtraining regularly allows the body to drain quickly. And it starts going otherwise. The part of the body which we want to increase starts decreasing. Generally, we think that doing a double workout can help us to increase power and strength. Although, it results negatively. 90 minutes of exercise every day is enough for a player to improve mental health, but anything over this threshold is worse for mental health than no exercise at all, this what researchers had found recently. For regular exercisers, reducing or st...

IT WAS a hot summer day in 1975, and the university’s exam had just got finished at St Francis De Sales College. The exam papers were being checked. A lecturer from the zoology department came to ask for pen from the Head of Department (HOD) of Physical Education, “Sir, can I get a red pen please?”, he replied, “why not!”. After a few hours, the lecturer came to return the pen. But when the HOD had given him that pen, the smile and happiness he saw on his face was an extremely pleasant one. This was the main reason that led him to start distributing pens in public, just as a token of love. This person (HOD) is none other than Ramsundar Mahadeo Kubde, who is also known as Shyamrao, a 68-year-old retired lecturer. Since 1975, Shyamrao started purchasing pens for gifting as a token of love from his side and that made him famous all over Nagpur and specially in the Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU). Let it be sports field, examination centre or general meet...

MAYANK Mehre and Akash Katole from Nagpur are all set to conquer top of Africa continent on coming August 15th. Mt Kilimanjaro stands at height 19341 feet and is highest peak in African Continent and is one of the 7 highest peaks on 7 continents. Mayank and Akash will leave India on Aug 8 and will start their journey on Aug 10. Mayank told ‘The Hitavada’ “That they will complete the journey in the five days and will hoist the India’s flag on the peak of the Kilimanjaro on Aug 15 to celebrate the Independence day.” Duo are preparing the altitude mask training in gym to use the limited oxygen while trekking. They will start their the Trekking from Zero level (SEA 2 SUMMIT) they will start with some cycling and swimming in Tanzania and will emerge for the summit. Mayank, resident of Dharampeth, Nagpur and Akash, resident of Manewada are friends from their Engineering at Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (VIT), Pune.  After engineering Akash went o...