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Tarun Dutta: From being bullied to becoming a bodybuilding champ
Updated On: 04 February, 2020 07:00 PM IST | Mumbai | Partnered Content
Humble beginnings, big dreams, and an envy-inducing physique - that would be the best way to describe Delhiu00e2u0080u0099s bodybuilding champ, Tarun Dutta
The 39-year-old has won over ten international titles and is a medallist at events organised by International Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation
Humble beginnings, big dreams and an envy-inducing physique – that would be the best way to describe Delhi's bodybuilding champ Tarun Dutta. He has just won the title of Mr Pan Pacific 2017 at the Pan Pacific ProAm International 2017, held in New Zealand, and is the only Indian to have done that. Looking at him today, it's hard for one to imagine that he, at one point, weighed a meagre 45 kgs. "That had been my motivation. I used to be so thin during school days that my peers would bully me, and that's when I decided to start gaining weight," he says, talking about how his interest was sparked. Dutta tells us that he reached 108 kilos before thinking of becoming lean again, post which he again lost a few kilos
"I'm from a very middle-class family. Bodybuilding wasn't as huge then, so my family would ask me to focus on my studies. They'd say: 'Tune itna gain bhi kar liya hai, itna khaane lag gaya hai. Padhai pe dhyaan de le' (You've gained so much weight, you eat so much...now start studying)," he continues, adding, "And back then, a jar of protein was around u00e2u0082u00b94000, so, it was hard to arrange. Toh tab main stalls lagata tha (I would put up stalls), and I would earn u00e2u0082u00b9100 per day. Then, I started coaching in gyms, borrowed some money from parents and invested it all in my body. Woh din the, aur ek aaj ka din hai."
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