Growing From Strength To Strength

When Arun KR, a former track and field athlete and triple jump national medalist, decided to leave his government job in 2007 to pursue his dream of being associated with sports and coaching, it was not an easy decision.

- GOMESH S

Hailing from a family where sports had been ingrained in him from childhood, Arun wanted to do more in the field. Back then, however, it was a huge risk. He had been married by then and was responsible for taking care of the family. That is when his father and the family backed him to do something he was passionate about.

Arun left his job, joined a local fitness studio as a general manager in 2007. Eighteen years on, Arun is now the founder and Strength and Conditioning (S&C) coach at The Training Lab—an enterprise he started in 2016. That is not all, Arun is also the assistant S&C with five-time IPL champions Chennai Super Kings and the lead S&C coach with India Cements, taking care of their senior division teams.

The road to this point has been a long and arduous one, starting from taking a sabbatical to train up and coming athletes with Shankar Basu, a former India men's S&C coach. Through these years, he worked with several athletes from the state, including Murali Vijay, Dinesh Karthik, Abhinav Mukund, B Indrajith, and Aparajith…the list goes on.