actor rana daggubati talks about how he reshaped his lifestyle and went from flabby to ripped looming six feet three inches tall with shoulders sprawling 45 inches actor rana daggubati weighs 95 kg and betrays no trace of body fat there seems no scope for sculpting his physique any further but three years ago i couldnt even think of talking about fitness he says trudging through 125 kg the ladykiller was then grappling with the unhealthy fallouts of a sedentary lifestyle for the five years that he ran his visual effects company rana did a swell job of hiding his excess pounds a myth that operated for a year was that my broad structure secretly held a deadly body i was so wary of my burgeoning tummy that i would conceal it by wearing very loose clothes he says from building a hunky body to amping up his work out sessions to dizzying levels of toughness rana tells us how he made the switchpast imperfect as a child i was into cricket and boxing in school i quit the latter in college when i got knocked off my nose i needed my face working in a vfx office meant haywire schedules and odd eating hours we would end up having biryani late at night adding to my bodys misery i just let myself go i had a paunch love handles bingo wings the works eventually it got unmanageable in december 2007 i sold my company and took up acting if i had to take my shirt off and do cool action scenes i better be in fine shape i took a year off to hone my personality theatre class dance class stunt and working outhot pursuit during those eight months of intense physical training i did things i had never done before i revisited boxing and got in touch with my martial arts trainers i chalked out my diet plan and sweated out in the gym five days a week this mostly worked on the principles of shocking your body if you do things you have never done your weight drops rapidly i was on a strict diet for six days a week and on my cheat day i would pig out though i lost 20 kgs and looked fit i wasnt still muscular or rippedharsh measures it has been seven months since i have plunged into obscene amounts of training i hit the gym twice a day i get up at 6 am for the next 45 minutes on an empty stomach i swing into a punishing ab routine and about 30 minutes of strengthbuilding exercises such as pushups pullups and rigorous weighttraining for evening workouts i work out two body parts a big muscle and a small like say the chest and the triceps i lift crazy weights and take no breaks while im at itlaxmanrekha last year at a bodybuilding competition in hyderabad i met laxman a 25yearold mr india silver medalist and asked him