Empowering Employees: The #IppoFit" Journey

“Truly inspired by Nithin Kamath ”?

Besides our CEO Mr. Mohan K entrepreneurial prowess, he has also been very regular and active at boxing and fitness. He believes health and physical fitness are supremely important to one's professional and personal life.?

But we have more to that….. !

And all of it on this read………!!?

It all started three months back…!!!

It was a casual lunchtime conversation when Mohan's colleagues challenged him to build a six-packed ab. Mohan reciprocated that a six-pack wasn't his fitness goal and that achieving one would require a different workout regimen. However, his colleagues jokingly dismissed his explanation and that he was just making excuses for the love of food.?

There was soon a fast exchange of comments and sooner a borderline provocation that he would never be able to bring about a six-packed abdomen. Mohan weighed in and spoke up that he has never thus far let anyone declare his potential failure.?

Even in the face of apparent impossibilities of life, giving up outright was never his choice. “I have never been afraid to fail, so let’s take this one up and give it the best shot” were his exact words.?

The six pack challenge began right there and Mr.Maulidharan former Mr.Tamilnadu was hired as his personal trainer. Mohan dived headlong into an organic shed-down period of 3 months and started the challenge with a perfect workout and diet plan.

While on this, Mohan also wanted to actively promote fitness within his company. That is when Nithin’s LinkedIn posts and his fitness campaigns at zerodha became the inspiration to do something similar at IppoPay and the IppoFit Campaign was announced.?

The IppoFit program is a fitness initiative by IppoPay, with an aim to build the culture of physical fitness and well-being among its employees and to create a fitness community where employees could share their everyday workouts,diet plans, progress, problems and solutions under the expert guidance of Mr.Moulidharan, hired as a full time in-office fitness consultant. The IppoFit challenge was taken up by 120 employees where they had to reduce 3kgs in a month and maintain weight for the next 2 months to win cash prizes.?

IppoFit Campaign is IppoPay’s first ever quaking move on fitness and today we stand at the end of IppoFit’s three month journey. We are seeing mentally and physically stronger employees with a better zeal for work and above all this initiative has ingrained the need and importance of health and fitness in the still so common sedentary, stress-filled IT lifestyle !

Mohan also had fitness experts validate his physique and declare him winning the six-pack challenge ???

It’s great that corporates have insurance benefits for employees but it’s also important to have some kind of fitness or gym allowances or campaigns like these that may probably never give insurance claims a chance !

Have you been thinking a 10 to 8 job is a barrier to keeping fit???

Well Team IppoFit have proved otherwise!

All it takes is the effort to create time, teaming up and encouraging one another!