Breaking The Stereotypes: Iron Woman of India

You have always heard about beauty with brains. Have you heard of beauty with six-pack? This is Iron Woman of India, Yashmeen Manak. She has broken the concept that women go to the gym to shed those extra kilos and fat bags.

Yashmeen Manak is 36 years old and is a fitness freak. She won the title of Gladrags Mrs India 2015 and the title of IBFF Miss India 2016 by Indian Body Building and Fitness Federation.

Childhood

As any other successful person, the love for fitness was present in Manak since her childhood. She was a winner in sports and other related activities. She has been into rigorous fitness regimen for 19 years of age and stepped into weight lifting.

Facing a Difficult Journey

It is not very easy for women to make their dream into reality in a conservative society like India. Manek has undergo serious struggles in life and the support provided by her parents, family and friends have been the reason for her success. People around always had doubts about materializing her dreams and her confidence made it possible to clear all doubts and make it possible.

Manek hates the stereotype life and believes that women are as good as men in any field. She is strong enough with her 17 years of training that she does power lifting. She even claims that she loves to see that her body is much more muscular than many men. Her highest weight lifting record is 160 kilos and this has broken all records set by men. That truly does justification to the name “Iron Woman of India”.

She is a star attraction in several beauty pageants and is also providing fitness coaching to celebrities. She has the perfect face and the perfect body. 

She opened her own Gym in Gurgaon and has over 300 people, both boys and girls who train under her. She admits that initially it was difficult for her as people were skeptical about a lady fitness trainer to train men. This was because of the norms that has been set into society that only men can do such tough jobs. But, now she has a good number which is increasing rapidly.