Rajat Chauhan and Darren Player have seen it all. They know what it is like to break real and imaginary obstacles when it comes to exercising. Drawing from a range of experiences, MoveMint Medicine gives readers a refreshing view on working out. It isn't about pushing yourself to the limit but about building on small victories. Chauhan and Player focus on a widely ignored element of exercising: the mind.This book goes against the grain by drawing reader attention to mental health and its importance on one's physical self. Never preachy and always funny, MoveMint Medicine is the only book one needs to read to get in shape.
Dr Darren Player (Author)
Dr Darren J. Player is a scientist and an academic. He studied personal training, exercise referral and sports science before completing his PhD in muscle cellular and molecular physiology. Dr Player has also undertaken professional qualifications in nutritional coaching and sports massage. He is an external examiner for a UK Sport Science degree and personal training qualifications. Combining his scientific background and professional qualifications, he has a unique view of health, fitness and exercise. A published author, he has contributed chapters in two scientific textbooks and has published numerous articles in prestigious scientific journals. Dr Player has also been invited to speak at scientific conferences and acclaimed academic and medical institutions, including AIIMS, IIT Delhi and the University of Washington. As a teenager, he was a competitive 200-metre and 400-metre runner. Now he just trains for health and well-being.
Dr. Rajat Chauhan (Author) Dr Rajat Chauhan is a student of running (for the past thirty-seven years) and pain. He is also an aggressive promoter of GOYA (Get Off Your Arse). He is the founder and race director of La Ultra, an epic ultramarathon held in Ladakh since 2010. The ultramarathon features categories ranging from 11 km to 555 km, with altitudes varying from 11,000 feet to 17,400 feet. He is the author of
Move: Get Fit in 15 Weeks and
La Ultra: cOuch to 5, 11 & 22 km in 100 days. Dr Chauhan has been a columnist for
Mint and
Hindustan Times, besides being a guest columnist for national newspapers and magazines. He is a senior fellow at Livonics Institute of Integrated Learning and Research.
Dr Chauhan got his MBBS degree from Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara, Nepal. Because of his running, he had a head start of more than nine years over his medical college peers in knowing how the human body and mind work in synchronization to perform at an optimal level, one baby step at a time. Dr Chauhan went on to marry his passion and profession by doing his MSc in sports-exercise medicine from Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK. This was followed by membership of the London College of Osteopathic Medicine, London, UK, and several other certificates and diplomas, which give him a unique approach to human performance.
He was exposed to strength training for both performance and rehabilitation for the neck and back pain while heading the medical department at Kieser Training, a German chain of centres, in London. He was the founding head of the sports medicine department at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore, and the (quit) chairperson of the World Congress of Science and Medicine in Cricket, held during the 2011 Cricket World Cup which was hosted by India. He was also the founding director of the sports department at Manipal Hospital, and the principal running technical consultant and head coach for Adidas India. He was also the founding director of sports and exercise at Ashoka University.
