{"id":3482,"date":"2008-10-20T15:54:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T15:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/10\/20\/bollywood-leads-rise-in-asian-bodybuilding\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:23:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:23:07","slug":"bollywood-leads-rise-in-asian-bodybuilding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/20\/bollywood-leads-rise-in-asian-bodybuilding\/","title":{"rendered":"Bollywood leads rise in Asian bodybuilding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Asian men seek better bodies to emulate film idols<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"269\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/SRKAsianbodybuilding_180x232.jpg\"\/>HUNDREDS of young Asian men are adapting their fitness routines in the gym to include body building, as they try to mirror the image of their Bollywood screen idols.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>There has also been a huge rise in sales of nutritional supplements as the Asian community seeks to enhance muscular growth, stamina development and recovery after work outs.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>That is according to Kunel Patel, owner of Bulksupplementsdirect.co.uk, the UK\u2019s leading online supplier of \u2018own brand\u2019 nutritional supplements.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cI think it\u2019s all to do with influences from the Bollywood film industry,\u201d says Patel.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cYoung Asian men see mega stars like Salman Khan and Saif Ali Khan doing so well with their image that they want to get the same results.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The Bollywood industry is a huge source of income for India, and now with Hollywood director Steven Spielberg forging a multi-billion dollar deal with a leading Bollywood studio, the bond between the East and West is getting even closer.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cI think the boys do it for a focus and goal. Many Asian men don\u2019t drink or smoke, so weight training is something they can concentrate on to promote a good clean image,\u201d says Patel.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian men seek better bodies to emulate film idols HUNDREDS of young Asian men are adapting their fitness routines in the gym to include body building, as they try to mirror the image of their Bollywood screen idols. &#13; There has also been a huge rise in sales of nutritional supplements as the Asian community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}