Gully Cricketer, Sunil turns into international fitness trainer for film and sports celebrities

NEW DELHI / It is believed that a weak socio-economic background hinders making a career, but a Gwalior-based youth, Sunil Sharma belonging to a lower-middle-class family, has broken this jinx by transforming himself into a celebrity in the fitness sector.

Sunil born in 1993, popularly known as ‘Dinda’ has provided fitness training to several popular Bollywood stars, national and international cricket players, and top bureaucrats of his home state, the Madhya Pradesh cadre so far.

Speaking to The Sun Today Sunil says that he used to belong to a very weak socio-economic family when he was 12 and his father could hardly bear the family expenses. But he had a passion for playing cricket and started practising in the gullies of his mohalla.

“Incidentally, I got a chance to play at the international ground Captain Roop Singh Stadium in the under-13 team of Gwalior Division Cricket Association(GDCA) as a fast bowler, seeing my performance, the functionaries of GDCA gave me the opportunities to represent the teams of under-14,15,16 and 17 in various intra-state and interstate tournaments”, Sunil says. “Kricket is a more expensive sport my family couldn’t bear, and a big competition and fewer opportunities in it, due to this I have turned myself into a professional fitness trainer because I had been focusing on it together with playing”, he adds. A good athlete’s physique was also given by God to me, he further adds.

Dinda has been providing training in personal fitness to the popular film star Sanjay Dutt, his wife Manyata and son Shahraan in Dubai for one and half years. He also worked as a fitness trainer to other Bollywood movie stars including actress Soundarya Sharma. He also goes abroad to provide personal and fitness training. He has so far visited the United Kingdom, Bangladesh and Shri Lanka.

Sunil, who has a specialisation in strengthening(SC) has also provided training to Rashid Khan, Ankit Sharma, Ishan Pandey Naman Ojha and Ankit Rajput etc (all are international and IPL cricket players). Apart from being a fitness trainer, he is also a personal, SC coach and nutritionist.

He has been an official trainer of the GDCA and MP Cricket Association for junior teams in the camps. Dinda has done a certificate course in fitness with the International Sports Sciences Association, Phoenix, Arizona (United State).

When he turned himself into a fitness trainer, he established a sports gym DFT in Gwalior city along with his friends as an entrepreneur in 2019.

Sunil says that he has a desire to make the people of his country healthy and fit so he also organises fitness seminars virtually and offline without taking any fee in this regard. He uploads his videos and exercise tips on social media platforms to aware his million followers.

Giving a message to cricket passionate, Sunil says that youngsters who want to make their line in this stream should keep choosing a second option also together with it in the same field for the future because making a career in it is a tough and challenging task, they should take the right step at an appropriate time.