Fitness and Sports magazine-an inspiration to a healthy lifestyle

Fitness & Sports,a quarterly launched recently, aims to inspire and inform its readers to adopt a fitness lifestyle, with high quality content. The Magazine is authored by doctors, sportsmen, coaches, personal trainers and individuals who live the fitness lifestyle and give testament to its many benefits.

The magazine contains workouts and diets of elite sportsmen which will help readers understand the standards they need to reach in training and nutrition. It also strives to inspire and inform readers of all ages to achieve their own fitness goals and enjoy life to the fullest. The personal stories of sportsmen will inspire youngsters and teach them the discipline and dedication it takes to represent the country on the world stage.

The magazine also wishes to inculcate amongst youngsters good values that sport teaches such as teamwork and respect for one another.

Praveen Emmanuel Muttukumaru is the Editor of the magazine published by PE Enterprises. Fitness and sports have been his lifelong passion. Praveen played football and was an athlete in school and competed in cross country running and athletics when he was at university in the United States.

Later Praveen began to focus more on weight training, and worked out at a boxing gym, learning the basics of the "sweet science" of the sport. In the U.S. he observed different training methods of people which gave him the different perspectives of training.

Back in Sri Lanka, Praveen worked in Corporate Communications and Sales. This gave him an understanding and appreciation of marketing at ground levelas well as of building relationships. He then went to the U.K. to do an MBA. In the UK, Praveen worked out in an old school boxing gym as well as in a state-of-the art gym. Working out in the cold gloomy English weather "toughens your soul and is also a poetic experience". "There is a rich history of physical training amongst the working class in the U.K. which has spread to other segments of English society". From the UK, Praveen moved to Singapore where he met his future boss, an ex-British army officer with an illustrious career spanning military, corporate and philanthropy, who was in Singapore embarking on his new venture, an adventure park on Sentosa Island.

The two hit-it-off and Praveen became his first employee, assisting him in setting up the adventure park and then moving on to operational and sales roles. This experience gave Praveen a first-hand look at setting up a business.

While at Singapore Praveen also worked out at a local boxing club and experienced full contact sparring.

After moving back to Sri Lanka, Praveen joined a property development company. He always wanted to start his own venture but he did not know what it would be. As time passed he realised that what he truly loved was working out and learning more about fitness. He also began following local club rugby.

Praveen then decided in 2014 to launch a fitness magazine that would cover the fitness routines for sports as well. The magazine brought together his love of fitness and his love of the English language to help communicate to his audience the subject of fitness. It was a perfect fit!

He could call on his coaches from his running days in the sports ministry and also on the friendships he had made working out at the gym in the Royal College Sports Complex.

Through fitness he has made a lot of friends and continues to meet new people who are eager to share their knowledge and experience for the benefit of others.

Praveen is thankful for the support and encouragement of his family to live his dream of starting his own venture in a field which he truly loves. His goal is to bring fitness knowledge to all Sri Lankans and he hopes to also share foreign expertise in the magazine so Sri Lankans can up their fitness levels to new heights.