Yesterday we brought you some stunning pictures of Atharva's six pack and today we got the insiders behind the sportive look. Atharva said that, he is playing as an athlete in 'Eeti' and the director wanted me to take special efforts to look authentic. I was not able to jump the hurdles in the first few weeks, and struggled a lot. Slowly, I made efforts to jump the hurdles by jogging and nearly after 6 weeks of training, I finally crossed the hurdles by running properly.

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In order to achieve it, the training which I've undergone helped me a lot. My personal trainer, Jeyakumar is very strict and shaped my body to a great extent. It is very tough to maintain the physique, since I should be very careful of what I eat, and my stomach must be half empty all the time. It has been more than a year since I had rice in my routine. Well, everything comes at price, isn't it?

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