Ms. Namita Nayyar:
In 2016, you qualified for the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the women’s 10 metre air pistol and the women’s 25 metre pistol events. Having performed so well throughout your career, who is your role model(s), inspiration, and motivator in your career as an athlete?
Ms. Heena Sidhu:
A lot of people ask me this question about role models but I’ve always told them that I’ve never had a role model and I never believed in role models. If you see everybody comes with their own set of weaknesses and strengths and everybody have to face their own challenges in life and no two people can have the same life, no two people can have the same set of talents. So everybody has to find their own way, yes some people can inspire you but in the end everybody has to find their own way in this life and the key is to keep working hard not to give up and see what life throws at you and give it your best shot.
Ms. Namita Nayyar:
In a recent interview you said “The plan for 2020 has already begun.” Please elaborate it for us. How is your preparation for the future games going?
Ms. Heena Sidhu:
Training for any Olympics starts the moment you end the last Olympic. So it’s always a four year cycle and every athlete to break those four years into time frame of working on specific problems or technique or anything you want to work on so it’s not that training for Olympics starts just one month before the Olympics. It’s a four year plan, long-term plan and it keeps going and as I have already told you it’s the journey which is important and the journey is never ending. It is not like if you have remedied one mistake not come back again, you always have to keep manoeuvring, keep finding new challenges and keep getting better. So that is what I meant when I said that the training for Olympics has already begun. So right now the whole team is concentrating on getting the Olympic quota which will be in world championship in the coming world cup next year so we are all concentrating on that.
Ms. Namita Nayyar:
Women Fitness works with a goal to reach out to women all over the world providing them with best in health, fitness, nutrition, beauty & fashion. What do you wish to say about the website (Womenfitness.org) and a message for our visitors?
Ms. Heena Sidhu:
I think WomenFitness.Org is a very good initiative. Even the sentiment and the emotion behind the magazine is great to support women facing challenges in their career and giving them advice regarding fitness, nutrition, etc. It is very important to stay fit, it’s very important to stay healthy especially in today’s world with changing time where we have pollution and adulteration in the food. It’s very important to get the correct advice. So If women fitness is doing that then I think I’m very proud of it and helping women achieve their dream that’s another area that society needs to work on and I’m sure women fitness is providing all sorts of right advice to the women and as I already told you my advice to the women out their is to believe in yourself and don’t go by the norms set by the society of what an ideal woman needs to do, you need to find your own set of talent, you need to find your own way of life and if you get support in life very good that’s a bonus but if you don’t do or not do things because you got or didn’t get the support. So everybody is on their own you have to find your way and I think as I told you god doesn’t throw anything at us which we cannot handle, you are much stronger than you think and just go for it and believe in yourself.
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