turned into a mini gymnasium and having fellow wrestler jitender kumar to grapple with but they dont have a mat and bajrang is without his personal coach shako bentinidis close by we have gym equipment in a spacious room on the other floor dont have a mat at home so doing just physical training at present the trainer gives the schedule am following that bajrang said about his lockdown fitness routinei keep talking to shako over the phone and he advises me on how to train he has advised me to grapple in standing position onlyjitender and i are living together because we know about each other we dont go out or meet anyone this disease spreads from human to human contact and ours is a contact sport so if we train with an unknown person it will be very risky so both jitender and i do standing training grapplingbajrang had plans to travel to russia in march but had to shelve his plans and stay at home which turned out to be a wise decision as the first phase of the lockdown march 25 to april 14 has been extended until may 3 as of now i was scheduled to go to russia for training as the olympics were approachingbut i cancelled my trip because the tournaments were getting cancelled or postponed so it would have been immature to still go ahead with my plans to train abroad said bajrangbajrang is 26 now and this is the longest that he has been home at a stretch since he started wrestling at the age of 10ever since i was a kid i have stayed away from home mostly i started wrestling when i was 10 or 11 years old and hadnt spent such a long period at home since then we do come home in between but never for this long no international athlete gets this much family time he said with a smilehe concluded with an appeal echoing the sentiments of millions of indians and his friends from the sports fraternitythrough timesofindiacom i would like to urge my fellow indians to not misbehave with the police and health workers this is inhuman please understand that these precautionary measures against the coronavirus are to safeguard india its time to unite in the fight against the virus