About

From its very start, Blitz Athletics has been committed to providing high-quality fitness services to athletes, sportspersons, and fitness enthusiasts to enable them to excel at fitness and at life. Blitz was born out of our dedication to provide the best fitness services and to foster a community of like minded individuals united by their fitness goals. Our tribe of fitness aficionados is on a journey to become their fittest, strongest, fastest, and healthiest selves.

As a fitness center, Blitz caters to professional athletes and sportspersons looking to improve their strength and conditioning in order to enhance their performance in their chosen sport. We offer Strength & Conditioning (S & C) and TRX training (suspension exercises that use specialized equipment to improve the body’s strength, flexibility, balance, and core stability) to athletes and sportspersons, which we think are essential for them to enhance their athletic/sports performance.

Functional fitness, our other popular plan, is aimed at instilling the importance of fitness in all those who walk into our gym: functional fitness in some form or the other is indispensable to living a healthy life. At Blitz, our functional fitness plans are guaranteed to transform your ideas of fitness and make you want to incorporate this form of fitness in your daily life.

Our fitness philosophy

Co-founded by athletes and sportspersons, Blitz’s fitness philosophy is backed by science as well as the personal experiences of our founders. Bhalchandra Murkute, one of our co-founders, realized that there were no gyms in Pune catering to the fitness needs of athletes and sportspersons in Pune. Bhalchandra decided to fill this need by starting a facility specially catering to sports fitness or athlete fitness. Bhalchandra believes that every athlete, be it a runner, footballer, basketball player, or a cricketer, has to train different muscle groups to improve his or her performance on the field. Athletes cannot be part of the regular gym setup and train like those who work out without this competitive pressure. At Blitz, Bhalchandra decided to design and provide detailed training programs catering to particular sports.

Akash Benali, our other co-founder, conceptualised Blitz as a fitness institute that strives to inculcate a healthy fitness mindset in its clients. As a cricket player, Akash is a repository of a wealth of information about strength and conditioning programs to enhance sports performance. He believes that the prevalent attitudes towards fitness in the market reduce fitness to six-pack abs or size zero, but fitness is about so much more than that. Fitness should ideally be about strength endurance, coordination, stability, power, speed, agility, mobility, as well as flexibility. Akash is proud to say that Blitz has managed to create this mindset among its community of members.

Abhijeet Shirodkar, our third co-founder, also a competitive cricket player, believes that Blitz owes its success to the quality of coaching. It is the one thing Abhijeet decided they should never compromise on. He believes that members who were sincere and stuck with Blitz saw early positive results, which helped spread the word. Today, Abhijeet is proud to see Blitz becoming popularly known in Pune as the go-to fitness center for S & C and functional fitness.