<p>Parul Tongaria used to take a gym membership in Bengaluru but whenever she travelled for work, that membership remained unutilised, leaving her frustrated. Even if she found a gym or a fitness centre in the vicinity in the place she was visiting, talking to the in charge and working out a reasonable cost for a couple of days’ usage was a hassle. <br /><br /></p>.<p>However, her frustration gradually led her to a unique idea that she’s proud of today — ‘Gymmy’, a startup that allows its users to buy one membership that lets them access any gyms in its network across cities and even within the same city. <br /><br />“I would be travelling for work for most part of the year and my membership was at a gym near my home in Bengaluru. It would take me hours to search for a nearby gym or fitness centre in a new city, leading me to compromise on my health while I was on the move. A year back, my tech team helped me put this concept online at www.gymmy.in. The idea is to reduce the friction of going to a gym and taking care of oneself in a cost effective manner,” highlights Parul, the founder of the startup.<br /><br />She feels that the present generation works flexible hours and moves around a lot. “But we don’t focus on our health at all and this leads to stress-related conditions as well as back injuries due to lack of physical activity, says Parul adding, “I come from a family of fitness lovers. My father taught me yoga when I was still in school and we used to wake up at 5 am even in the Delhi winters and practice yoga everyday.<br /><br /> To me, working out is a form of meditation that allows one to silence out the city noise in the middle of the day. Yoga is very close to my heart; in fact, we want to enable people to practise any form of exercise even when they’re on the move.” The startup is presently focussed in Bengaluru and they also have a few gyms covered in Delhi and Mumbai. However, their plan is to be present in all major cities and be truly mobile.<br /><br />An engineer from Delhi College of Engineering and an MBA from IIT Bombay, Parul says that her time at IIT permanently moulded her towards entrepreneurship. “I underwent a transformation of sorts, especially after interacting with so many brilliant minds, all in a short span of time. In such an environment, one’s mindset changes from looking at problems to focussing on finding solutions for most of them,” she says. <br /><br />She is indeed glad to have found a solution to a major concern facing many and wants to take ‘Gymmy’ to even greater heights.<br /><br /></p>
<p>Parul Tongaria used to take a gym membership in Bengaluru but whenever she travelled for work, that membership remained unutilised, leaving her frustrated. Even if she found a gym or a fitness centre in the vicinity in the place she was visiting, talking to the in charge and working out a reasonable cost for a couple of days’ usage was a hassle. <br /><br /></p>.<p>However, her frustration gradually led her to a unique idea that she’s proud of today — ‘Gymmy’, a startup that allows its users to buy one membership that lets them access any gyms in its network across cities and even within the same city. <br /><br />“I would be travelling for work for most part of the year and my membership was at a gym near my home in Bengaluru. It would take me hours to search for a nearby gym or fitness centre in a new city, leading me to compromise on my health while I was on the move. A year back, my tech team helped me put this concept online at www.gymmy.in. The idea is to reduce the friction of going to a gym and taking care of oneself in a cost effective manner,” highlights Parul, the founder of the startup.<br /><br />She feels that the present generation works flexible hours and moves around a lot. “But we don’t focus on our health at all and this leads to stress-related conditions as well as back injuries due to lack of physical activity, says Parul adding, “I come from a family of fitness lovers. My father taught me yoga when I was still in school and we used to wake up at 5 am even in the Delhi winters and practice yoga everyday.<br /><br /> To me, working out is a form of meditation that allows one to silence out the city noise in the middle of the day. Yoga is very close to my heart; in fact, we want to enable people to practise any form of exercise even when they’re on the move.” The startup is presently focussed in Bengaluru and they also have a few gyms covered in Delhi and Mumbai. However, their plan is to be present in all major cities and be truly mobile.<br /><br />An engineer from Delhi College of Engineering and an MBA from IIT Bombay, Parul says that her time at IIT permanently moulded her towards entrepreneurship. “I underwent a transformation of sorts, especially after interacting with so many brilliant minds, all in a short span of time. In such an environment, one’s mindset changes from looking at problems to focussing on finding solutions for most of them,” she says. <br /><br />She is indeed glad to have found a solution to a major concern facing many and wants to take ‘Gymmy’ to even greater heights.<br /><br /></p>
