The Desi Halftime Show: Recent Episodes
Aaron Abraham
Talking shop and breaking cultural norms regarding sports and culture within the south asian community.
Welcome to The Desi Halftime Show. On this episode we have Aditi Shah joining us. Aditi is a yoga instructor at the world renowned fitness company, Peloton Studios. Aditi shares her journey to her unique and groundbreaking role with Peloton by sheding light on how she she got there, the benefits of yoga, and breaking the stigmas of surrounding yoga.
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Welcome to The Desi Halftime Show. In this installment, we have a good friend of the show on as a guest. His name is Abe Joseph. Abe is a veteran in the college athletics industry and has worked his way up to being a high level athletic administrator at the Division II level.
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Welcome to The Desi Halftime Show. In this installment, we take a deep dive into the life of one of the greatest athletes to ever come out of India: Milkha Singh. Singh came from an impoverished village but defied all odds to become a world renowned athlete.
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Welcome to The Desi Halftime Show. This is the first installment of the show with no guests but just the host: Aaron Abraham. He takes us into a deep dive of taking advantage of your younger years and how to take well calculated risks in life.
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On this installment of the show we are joined by sports medicine physician Dr. Rathna Nuti. She has a decorated career in the field of sports medicine. She shares her roles as a physician on sports teams and how she has continued to serve here clients through the pandemic.
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On this installment we bring in a guest who is a dear friend of the show, his name is Chris George. Chris is a Maryland native and runs the Blessan Samuel Classic basketball tournament. We bring him on the show to discuss how he manages the league, the many legacies, and it's rich history. He also discusses the tournament's extraordinary impact on our generation's culture and community.
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In this installment of the show we are joined by recent graduate and student-athlete of Northwestern University. Abhijeet Joshi played grew up playing tennis and went on to play all four years at Northwestern. Join us to hear about his journey and the impact the sport of tennis had on him.
In this installment of the show we have one of our co-producers join us to talk shop on training and his path in fitness. Justin John aka "Bird"
brings up some interesting topics such as neural overload training and how to properly improve upon your current training regimen.
In this episode Coach Rifat Ahmed joins us on the show to talk about her journey through disordered eating and how she found her passion in fitness. We also discuss how you can distinguish between all the loads of information out there on trainers, exercise, and food.
In this installment of the show we are joined by a Chicagoland gym owner and personal trainer by the name of Arsalan Afshar. Coach Arsalan is a full-time student at DePaul University while also running a gym out of his garage. With his roots in wrestling, he shares a lot about how that has improved his game as a coach and personal trainer.
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One of the greatest bodybuilders in Indian history joins us on the second installment your Desi Halftime Show. Pushpinder Bharti is a multiple time national champion bodybuilder in the country of India and takes us through his journey of furthering his career by coming to the states.
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It's been almost a year since the last Installment of the show and I'm here to explain why! Also going over what's to come in the future. Stay tuned.