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Karan Tacker advised the youth against using artificial enhancers.
Karan expressed concern.
Karan Tacker has been a heartthrob on television for several years before venturing into the OTT space. Recently, he expressed his concern for the younger generation who uses artificial substances to enhance their muscles as a cheat code to gaining their desired body.
Karan Tacker told the Hindustan Times, “Every time I go to the gym, I see young guys and girls constantly using substances to aid their muscles and their fitness journey. I feel bad for them that even without attempting to go natural, they have started artificially pumping their body and in fact, reduce the potential of their body naturally. In this generation of social media, everyone is desperate to look very good, very soon because it’s all about a perception about how many likes you get or what kind of pictures you are posting.”
“Pressure kabhi banta nahi hai, pressure log le lete hain. I am an actor, and I have the pressure of my profession. But even with that, I’ve been working here for like 15 years and I have never used anything,” he said and added, “I don’t know at what point, anyone who wants to be an actor started thinking that body banane se kaam milta hai. In fact, whatever body we might build, when we get a role, we do need to shred it down, kyunki body kisi ko chahiye hi nahi aaj ki taareekh mein. You have to look as regular as you can. There are very specific projects that require you take your shirt off. Other than that, you’re just playing real people and nobody really cares about ki tumhari shirt ke neeche abs hain ki nahi hain. I don’t know at what point did the norm become that actors need to have a body. I feel like that becomes a hindrance more than anything else.”
“Going to the gym helps me achieve my mindset on a daily basis to attack life and its challenges. My body looking good is a side effect of exercising, that’s not the only agenda. The idea has always been that you want to achieve a fit mind and a fit body. That fit body doesn’t necessarily need to have like abs or have a chest or arms to it. You could be doing Yoga or running every day, and you could be extremely fit. You don’t need to look muscular to look fit,” he said.
“Anything that goes up quick, comes down quick, figuratively and literally. So, just enjoy fitness and wait for things to turn around over a period of time. I see people who come to the gym and unki shaklon pe likha hota hai ky kyun aa gaye hum yahaan. Every fitness journey doesn’t need to start inside a gym. You have to find what works for you and it’s got to be an enjoyable experience,” he concluded.