The Fit Folk
Every person we feature, in one place — public creators we cover editorially and everyday people who share their stories with consent. Real people, real places.
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Tripat Singh — Started lifting at 62. Virat Kohli calls him an inspiration.
Diksha Chhabra — PCOD, thyroid, 100+kg post-pregnancy — answered with a barbell.
All the folk
- India
Anupriya Kapur
Single mother and former corporate worker who took up running in 2009 and documented using it to overcome postpartum depression on her blog Mom on the Run — later averaging 100+ km a month and founding the personal-care brand Imbue.
- India
Deepa Malik
India's first woman to win a Paralympic medal — silver in F53 shot put at Rio 2016. Paraplegic after spinal tumour surgeries; Padma Shri and Khel Ratna awardee; former President of the Paralympic Committee of India.
- Pune
Deepika Chowdhury
Molecular biologist (formerly at the National Institute of Virology) who joined a gym in 2012 and in 2016 became the first Indian woman to earn IFBB Pro status, as a Figure athlete.
- Delhi NCR
Diksha Chhabra
Came back from thyroid, PCOD, depression and 100+kg post-pregnancy weight through strength training begun in April 2016, reached 61kg, finished second runner-up at Mrs India Earth 2017, and now runs her own fitness consultancy focused on women's hormonal health.
- Delhi
Garima Barnoliya
Delhi's IFBB Figure Pro — earned her pro card after an Overall Champion win, competing and coaching from Delhi.
- Delhi NCR
Gaurav Taneja
Gaurav Taneja is an IIT Kharagpur-trained civil engineer (2008) and former commercial pilot for IndiGo and later AirAsia India who moved into full-time content creation. He runs the YouTube channels Flying Beast and FitMuscle TV, which together have drawn more than 3 million subscribers, and posts to Instagram as @taneja.gaurav, where his bio reads "Content Creator Flying Beast// FitMuscle TV."
- India / United States
Guru Mann
Guru Mann is a fitness educator and nutritionist born in a village near Rayya, Amritsar, Punjab, now settled in San Francisco, USA. He built one of India's largest fitness education audiences — around 6 million followers on Instagram (@gurumann) — through free, structured training and nutrition programs centered on Indian home food. He runs Mission India Fit, an initiative touring Indian cities to educate youth about exercise and health, and is set to make his film debut in the lead role of 'Pagalpan Next Level,' releasing October 27.
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Jelly Roll
Jelly Roll, born Jason Bradley DeFord on December 4, 1984 in Nashville, Tennessee, is a country-rap singer-songwriter known both for his music career and for speaking publicly about personal struggle, including a five-year, 275-pound weight-loss journey detailed in a Men's Health cover story that emphasized therapy for food addiction alongside physical change. In February 2025, he founded the Losers Run Club, a running community operated through Strava and Facebook, coached by his trainer Ian Larios and ultramarathoner Matthew Johnson, aimed at people who've felt excluded from running and fitness culture.
- India
Kajal
Fitness creator (@flex_fit_kajal) who documented a journey from 101kg to 65kg on a home-cooked Indian food rotation, covered by India TV.
