Yasmin Karachiwala brings her pilates brand to Dubai. Celebrity fitness trainer Yasmin Karachiwala and Anjali Chandiramani of A-Tone Fitness Lounge share their inspiration for bringing Yasmin Karachiwala's brand of pilates to Dubai. Yasmin also discusses her passion for pilates, the challenges of working with celebrities and her opinion of CrossFit.
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00:00I've been in Dubai all my life and Yas and me met through a common friend.
00:14So we've known each other a few years, we've been friends, we've partied together and it
00:19was a friend and my husband's birthday and we were having it in Goa and we happened to
00:24sit next to each other and we were just chatting.
00:26I'm like, why are you not in Dubai?
00:29Like you're so amazing and I love everything you do and I have actually tried training
00:34in her studio in Bombay and everyone here knows you, so why are you not in Dubai?
00:39So she was like, good idea, let's do it.
00:43I've been in the fitness industry for about 25 years and I was just looking for something
00:50which was revolutionary to the abdominals because everyone manages to get everything
00:56else working and when it comes to the abs, people are struggling.
01:00So we tried 500 sit-ups and reverse crunches and abdominal exercises and I even reached
01:07a thousand and it didn't help and I was researching and finding out and I discovered Pilates.
01:15Just the way Pilates made me feel was completely different from anything I'd felt or experienced
01:23before and I've done everything from CrossFit to functional training to yoga.
01:27It's like it merged everything into one and gave you that.
01:32You, me, a 10-year-old, a 100-year-old, everybody from the age of 10 to 100.
01:41Pilates is great if you're a sports person, if you need rehab, if you have a back, knee,
01:47hip, shoulder injury, if you're an obese person, if you're a skinny person, if you're a super
01:54fit person, if you're a completely unfit person.
02:01In their own way, they're all tough because they all have expectations of how they want
02:06to look, they have time frames, they know like when Katrina was doing Chikni Chamele,
02:13the dance, she said, even if one thing jiggles, you're dead, she says to him.
02:19And she really moved in that song.
02:22So that's a lot of stress for me.
02:26Lucky for them, I don't take stress easily.
02:29I can just brush it off.
02:32So they're all tough with what they want and they're tough on themselves.
02:38So I can't complain and say they're tough on me because it's just part of being part
02:43of their process.
02:45You know, when they look good on screen and they get appreciated, I feel really great
02:50as well.
02:51So it's worth it.
02:58People always want a diet.
02:59Okay, this is the funniest thing, can you give me a diet?
03:03And I always ask them, what's your age?
03:06Someone will say 30, someone will say 40, someone says 50, 20.
03:10I'm like, so you're 20 years old and you don't know how to eat for your body or you're 40
03:15years old and seriously, you need me to tell you?
03:19So are you smart?
03:21Is my next question to them and everyone is smart.
03:24So then why are you not smart about the choices you make in life?
03:28So I just make them realize which foods are good, which foods are bad, which foods work
03:34for them by trying it out and then make their own food plan because that is what will help
03:40them sustain it for a longer time.
03:43Diets don't last.
03:44I think people tend to compare themselves to someone else more than try to improve themselves.
03:51So it's always like Katrina's abs and Alia lost a lot of weight or, you know, how does
03:55she look like that?
03:56We were having this experience just the other day when we were saying that, you know, she
04:00always wants to look like someone else.
04:02So why don't you want to be a better version of you and try to improve yourself versus
04:06just trying to always be like the third person?
04:09Your body is yours.
04:10Yeah.
04:11It's unique.
04:12You know, so either you can be a better version of yourself, which is Aton's logo, or you
04:17can be fit because you deserve it, which is body, which is logo.
04:21Which both bottle down to the exact same thing.
04:26Every workout has a science and the science is great, but people are taking it to such
04:31levels like they have a they have a throw up wall.
04:34So if you throw up after a CrossFit workout, your name goes up on the board and you've
04:39achieved something.
04:40They make you work out till there's so much lactic acid build up that you throw up.
04:45And for me, it's it's just not OK.
04:50I mean, you know, I wouldn't want to do that to anybody because I want people to feel great.
04:55But the people who throw up, I mean, having said that, feel great that they threw up.
04:59So it's actually kind of an achievement.
05:01Yeah, it's a win-win.
05:04And it also depends what you're looking for at that point in your life.
05:07So if someone's looking for CrossFit, I'm not going to go and try and convince that
05:12person that, hey, you know what, Pilates is great.
05:14Like I said, they won't like it.
05:16They want that adrenaline rush.
05:19So it's what you're looking for.
05:20And I just want to say, we're right here, Pilates.
05:24Whenever you're done with whatever you're doing, come to us.
05:27We'll take care of you.
05:32I've been doing CrossFit for a while, and as much as I really enjoy it, it has a lot
05:39of negative publicity going on about it, where they try to make people do the similar kind
05:45of exercises at different levels.
05:48But I don't want people coming to my studio and feeling intimidated with the fact that
05:53they need to finish everything with the numbers as much as everybody else in the room has
05:58to do.
05:59So we came up with CrossKit, which is like a circuit-based training.
06:04It's time-based.
06:05So eventually, we'd say 10 minutes of burpees, whereby maybe she can do 100 and I can do
06:11a 20, for example.
06:13But at least we're all doing the same exercise, but we have our levels, which the trainer
06:18understands.
06:23So I have five mantras.
06:24One is move.
06:25One is strength train, drink water, eat smart, which we just spoke about, and the most important
06:33is your attitude.
06:36You know, if you have a positive attitude, you can conquer anything.