Discover the birthday present Jyotika Saravanan gave to herself.

Discover the birthday present Jyotika Saravanan gave to herself.

Jyotika Saravanan, a recently 44-year-old Tamil actor, wrote a touching essay on maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

On the occasion of her 44th birthday, Tamil star Jyotika Saravanan, well known as Jo by her friends and family, wrote a touching letter. She captioned a video montage of her working out at the gym, “Giving myself this birthday with strength and health.”

The actor-producer revealed that she had been doing functional training with coach Mahesh Ghanekar from Mahesh Fitness Club in the lead-up to her birthday, which was on October 18. She had just gotten the National Award for her husband Suriya’s film Soorarai Pottru.

The Raatchasi actor wrote, “I will not let aging alter me; I will change the way I age.” She performs a variety of bodyweight exercises, strength exercises, and High-Intensity Interval Training in the video.

How does functional training work?

Functional training, which consists of compound exercises like squats, lunges, burpees, and deadlifts, requires more than one muscle group to cooperate in order to simulate common movement patterns. According to specialists, this calls for strong abdominal muscles, which stabilize and regulate the pelvis and spine.

“People with strong cores learn to recognize and engage the muscles required to complete a task. In an earlier interview with IndianExpress.com, famous physiotherapist Dr. Prashant Mistry explained that learning to engage the core needs focus and increases body awareness.

Dr. Mistry continued, “Core strength is less about power and more about maintaining the body in appropriate positions to unload the joints and encourage ease of movement.

Regardless of age or gender, everyone should and can execute functional motions. Balance training is useful for an 80-year-old. Agility exercises are beneficial for a college-level athlete, according to Varun Rattan, co-founder of The Body Science Academy.

Functional training should be done gradually and under supervision, just like any other exercise. According to Rattan, it could be wise to concentrate on strengthening the gluteal muscles, and hamstrings, and improving hip and ankle mobility rather than making a client scramble around if they must wear knee braces to the gym due to the danger of injury.