Why fitness coach Raj Ganpath keeps his health advice simple

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When it comes to doling out fitness advice, Raj Ganpath, fitness & nutrition coach and co-founder of fitness coaching company, The Quad in Chennai, prefers to keep it really simple. This philosophy of his is quite evident in the content he regularly posts on Instagram.

And now, he takes it a step further by writing a book— unsurprisingly named— Simple, Not Easy. The book, in 100 short chapters, covers almost every topic related to fitness including nutrition, movement, stress and sleep. As someone who has been in the fitness industry for over 15 years, the idea of writing a big fat tome that contained all the ‘gyan’ he knew may have seemed tempting, but “having worked with people over the years, what I realized is, people don’t need a biochemistry textbook.

What people are looking for is a book that will make fitness accessible to them," explains Ganpath about why he chose to pare his exhaustive fitness knowhow down to the basics. “I want this book to be something that anyone can pick up and read and treat it like a companion," the 41-year-old says, sitting down for an interview with Lounge. Edited excerpts: Today, as fitness coaches, we’re just trying to get people to live better lives.

It’s important for people in the industry to understand that we need to respect our audience —these are real people with real problems in the real world. The fact that they make it to training on top of everything else is a big deal. And what they need is nothing extreme.

They don’t need that mad discipline or that crazy motivation. What they need is consistency and kindness. What they need is a coach who is not a taskmaster forcing you into a diet or an exercise plan, but a companion, a guide who is