Milind Soman asks us to do 10 push-ups for a selfie. We ask him to join us, insisting it will make for a better grab for this piece. He refuses. He's too cool for 'regular' push-up. "If I do it, we'll have to do clap push-ups," he sets conditions. We give it a shot, fail, and blame the deceptive flooring for being too slippery. Arms tucked into the pockets of his hoodie, he seems all too comfortable to even lift a finger. "I'm the laziest person," he announces at one point in this conversation, and follows it with clichés such as "Everyone can run a marathon", "I'm addicted to fitness", and even gems like "Have you seen my body in the Made in India video? It's amazing!"

There's abundant tomfoolery going on at this interaction, or so we believe it would. Not because we didn't intend to take this seriously, but because we had read so much about Soman's fitness journey that we wondered if he would perhaps even have anything more to say. After cracking the eulogised Ironman challenge (3.86 km swim, 180.25 km bicycle ride and 42.20 km run) in 2015, and giving a spate of interviews describing his fitness routine, he went on to complete the Ultraman, which made the former look, well, 'cute'. It comprised a 10 km swim, 424 km bike ride and 84 km run. So we only begin with what seems to be the most obvious question we can: 'Which question pertaining to fitness are you most tired of answering?" Pat comes his reply, "All".