Taapsee Pannu Explains How To Tell If You’re Truly Healthy

MUMBAI- Actress Taapsee Pannu has reflected on how her approach to fitness has evolved over the years, saying she initially began exercising to lose weight during her school and college years but now works out primarily to maintain her health, except when specific film roles require physical training.

Sharing her thoughts on social media, Taapsee said: “Initially I did work out to reduce weight when I put on a lot of weight during my school and college ending years but lately for last lot of years I’ve been working out to stay healthy except for a few films that I had to work out for, for specific goals of playing those athletes, but I’ve usually been working out just to stay healthy because it’s not like I’m getting glam type roles where I have to show off my body so that’s why I have to work out for that.”

The actress also spoke about how people should assess their fitness levels, arguing that health should not be measured solely by how long someone can run or how much weight they can lift.

“I usually only worked out to stay, and feel healthy, and how do you do that? Basically, people think that, ‘okay we ran for so long so we are healthy and we pushed so many kilos of weight, so we are healthy.’ What should be your like highest heart rate. And now-a-days everyone wears a smartwatch. So, if you actually want to test how healthy you are, you should test how quickly your heart rate stabilizes, how quickly your body recovers. The quicker your body recovers, the healthier you are. If it takes a long time to recover or get your heart rate normal or recover your body from a heavy workout, that means something probably is not right.” (IANS)