

Things clicked and Alkhas cancelled his return ticket and stayed on in Chennai as Suriya wanted him to become his personal trainer. Sathyajit picked me and that’s how I came to Chennai on a 3 day visit to meet Suriya,” recalls Alkhas fondly.īut the 3 day trip was destined to become a longer association. Aamir asked Sathyajit to send one of his trainers to Chennai. Suriya, a good friend of Aamir asked him for a trainer for a six pack for his film Vaaranam Ayiram. Sathyajit was training Aamir Khan for the 8 packs in Ghajini. In 2007, I went to Mumbai and started work for Sathyajith Chaurasia at the Barbarian gym.


“I have trained under Vaishnav Chaddha and worked as a trainer in Delhi for the past 5 years. That’s how he was able to achieve the six pack abs in four and a half months.” So how did Alkhas, who hails originally from Delhi, come all the way to Chennai to train Suriya? And thereby hangs an interesting tale. “Suriya is a perfectionist,” is the impression Alkhas has about his celebrity client. In a chat with Expresso he tells us about how he came to Chennai and the experience of working with Suriya. But talk to him about his favourite client Suriya and his eyes sparkle and the words come tumbling out. Personal trainer to Suriya for the past 12 months, Alkhas is as reticent as Suriya himself. HE'S tall and lean and what’s more, he sports a six pack himself! It sure looks like Alkhas Joseph, the man behind actor Suriya’s six pack abs believes in practising first what he preaches.
