For more than five decades, I have made it my business to keep Hyderabad moving. What began with karate in the early seventies gradually became a much broader mission: to bring the disciplines of fitness -– serious fitness, the kind that asks something of you – to a city that was only just beginning to ask for it.
The Work
I am, by training, a martial artist.
I am, by trade, a fitness columnist.
And I am, by temperament, a teacher – which is to say, I cannot help but pass along what I have learned.
Over the years, I have introduced to Hyderabad & Secunderabad:
- Karate (first introduced – 1972)
- Aerobics (first introduced – 1984)
- Cardio Kickboxing – fast, fun & furious (first introduced – 1999)
- Weight Training & Personal Conditioning
- Training, diet, recovery & rehabilitation strategies for people in their 40s, 50s & beyond
- Health & Fitness Consultation Services
I have trained the trainers.
I have written the columns.
I have appeared on Gemini TV & All India Radio.
More importantly, I have watched two generations of students walk into my classes uncertain – and walk out transformed, in body as well as in mind.
The Philosophy
There are no shortcuts. There never were.
What we call “fitness” today is too often a marketing exercise – a piece of equipment, a packaged supplement, a six-week promise. Real conditioning is older than that, and quieter. It asks for honesty, repetition, and the willingness to show up tomorrow exactly as you did today.
I tell my students: don’t think of exercise as losing valuable time. Think of it instead as time devoted to sculpting your body, maximising recovery, and conditioning your delivery systems – the heart & lungs – for a higher level of health, strength & endurance.
That is the work.
That is all the work.
Beyond Fitness
When I am not teaching, I am most likely at the piano. Jazz, mostly — though classically trained, the standards are where I feel most at home.
There is more in common between a good kata and a good chord progression than most people imagine: both demand discipline first, and only then permit improvisation.
Get in touch
For training enquiries, consultations, columns, or media work:
Zareer Patell @ +91 9246520614
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