Sunil Sharma born in 1993, popularly known as 'Dinda' has provided fitness training to several popular Bollywood stars, national and international cricket players, and top bureaucrats of his home state, the Madhya Pradesh cadre so far.
Speaking to The Pioneer during a visit to his home town, Sunil says that he belonged to a very weak socio-economic family when he was 12 and his father could hardly bear the family expenses. But he had a passion for playing cricket and started practising in the gullies of his mohalla.
"Incidentally, I got a chance to play at the international ground Captain Roop Singh Stadium in the under-13 team of Gwalior Division Cricket Association (GDCA) as a fast bowler. Seeing my performance, the functionaries of GDCA gave me the opportunities to represent the teams of under-14, 15, 16 and then 17 in various intra-state and interstate tournaments," Sunil said, adding that Cricket is a more expensive sport and his family couldn't bear, and a big competition and fewer opportunities in it. "Due to this I have turned myself into a professional fitness trainer because I had been focusing on it together with playing," he added. A good athlete's physique was also given by God to me, he further adds.
Dinda has been providing training in personal fitness to the popular film star Sanjay Dutt, his wife Manyata and son Shahraan in Dubai for one and half years. He also worked as a fitness trainer to other Bollywood movie stars including actress Soundarya Sharma. He also goes abroad to provide personal and fitness training. He has so far visited the United Kingdom, Bangladesh and Shri Lanka.
Sunil, who has a specialisation in strengthening (SC) has also provided training to Rashid Khan, Ankit Sharma, Ishan Pandey Naman Ojha and Ankit Rajput etc (all are international and IPL cricket players). Apart from being a fitness trainer, he is also a personal, SC coach and nutritionist.
He has been an official trainer of the GDCA and MP Cricket Association for junior teams in the camps. Dinda has done a certificate course in fitness with the International Sports Sciences Association, Phoenix, Arizona (United State).
When he turned himself into a fitness trainer, he established a sports gym DFT in Gwalior city along with his friends as an entrepreneur in 2019.
