KATRINA KAIF UNDER YASMIN KARACHIWALA TRAINING FOR PRABHU DEVA'S SONG IN THUGS OF HINDOSTAN

We are very much aware about Katrina Kaif's sensational dance. She is one of the Actress in Bollywood who works really hard in delivering best dance performance. Hits like Sheila ki Jawani, Chikni Chameli, Kamli Kamli, Masha Allah, Kaala Chasma and the very recent Swag Se Swagat from Tiger Zinda Hai has some really great dance moves.

Katrina Kaif is recently working for her film Thugs of Hindostan which is an epic period action-adventure film. It will hit the Theatres during Diwali on 7 November 2018. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Katrina Kaif and Fatima Sana Shaikh are busy shooting for the film.

Katrina has to shoot for an intensive song for   under the choreography of genius Prabhu Deva. The song is inspired by North-Indian folk number. It is a mix of Pahadi style dance and gymnastics. To meet the needs of this song, Katrina has to change her diet and workout routine thrice as the song needs in-depth rehearsals and dance steps. She now has to take protein heavy coupled diet with cardio and muscle training.

Katrina is getting trained by Celebrity trainer Yasmin Karachiwala. Actresses like Alia Bhatt, Ileana d Cruz, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Deepika Padukone and Malaika Arora are also under her training guidance. According to a leading daily;

Yasmin says, “It was a very hectic song and because of that we really couldn’t do a lot of workouts but we did a lot of pilates. A month before the song started we were doing functional circuit training in the gym and pilates and once the song started, in between the four to six hours dance rehearsals with Prabhu Dheva, we started the 20-20-20 workout because we didn’t want to do high-intensive workouts as she was anyways dancing for so many hours to learn the dance steps. The 20-20-20 routine is where I work 20 minutes on her upper body, 20 minutes on her leg and 20 minutes on her core on machines of pilates. After the song started it was a different we did classical Pilates exercises for whatever she did like for reflexors or her back. While she was doing the song I would focus on what she needed for the workout. The workouts were basically tailored to what her needs were throughout.”

During the shooting of the song, Katrina would come to training at 11 pm in the night. Yasmin says, “She is a very hard-working girl. She left the set at 7 pm (her call time was 8-8.15 am), pack up and come straight to the gym at 10.30-11 pm in the night and stay till past midnight and then go back to the sets by 8 am the next day and shoot the song. This whole of last week Katrina has been coming to the gym by 10.30-11 pm. Katrina is at her best fitness level in her life right now. She wasn’t as flexible or smooth with her dancing as she has become now and of course, that’s all because of the hard work she puts in.”

While the actress did not have a single cheat day during the shooting of the song, she binged the day after it got over by having French toast at lunch. Yasmin says, “We had brunch because she starts rehearsing for the next song and you need to have the cheat days. Today was a full-on cheat lunch we had and that’s okay. Katrina is always very careful about what she eats but when you see the song, the clothes she’s wearing and the moves she’s making you will understand that you have to watch what you are eating because every a lot of her body, including her midriff, is shown in the song.”

How does Yasmin work on Katrina’s diet plan? “We work together on a food plan because also, when you are doing this kind of intense dancing you can’t starve yourself and not eat because you need some energy to flow and your sugar level can fall. I tailor her food according to what her requirement is, like for this song we had to have carbs in her diet. You can have carbs in the first half of the morning and have gluten-free food.”

The food would include gluten-free bread for breakfast. The celebrity trainer adds, “As the rest of the day goes the carbs get less. In the morning Katrina would have some toast in the morning, mid-morning she would have a snack, lunch would be fish and vegetables, evening she has another snack like protein balls which I make at home and send to her, she also has these gluten-free cupcakes that her cook makes, chia pudding – these are her snacks at different times and dinner which is after she finishes her work or completing it, is soup and eggs which is very light.”

Yasmin sums it up. “Every pilates routine differs with every song. I keep going abroad, getting trained and constantly learning new stuff as even in pilates there is so much to do so every time we do something - we do new and different. Pilates sound the same but you may have the reformer, the chest, the core alignment, there are different equipments that we use for different things so for every song we do it’s something different. So the pilates routine was again different from what we did in Swag se swagat in Tiger Zinda Hai.”