My diet is discipline, says star shot putter Inderjeet Singh

Shot putter Inderjeet Singh has shoulders wide as a big screen TV. Inevitably, the Rio-bound 28-year-old gets many questions about his food habits. When he tells people he is vegetarian, they are often surprised.

“Lot of people ask me about my diet, and I tell them that my diet is discipline,” Singh said at a felicitation by employers Indian Oil in Mumbai. “You can’t eat something potent once in a while and expect to develop muscle. You have to have those meals at a fixed time, a certain number of times a day, over a number of years. And you have to train.”

Asked about his diet, he said, “I eat what the average person eats – dal, sabzi, roti, chawal. And I take protein and vitamin supplements. I am a vegetarian from the start. I don’t even have eggs. Vegetarian me hai utni taqat (vegetarian possesses that much power).”

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