The village of Asola-Fatehpur Beri is the strongest in India. For
generations, men have held two-hour workouts every morning and evening
in this countryside community on the southern rim of Delhi.
From
pre-teens to men nearing 50, bodybuilders sweat it out at one of the
most popular training spots,
Akhada, which is a Hindi word that means
wrestling arena.
This is where brawny
men wrestle in mud, climb ropes and perform a few hundred sit-ups and
push-ups, balancing their hands on bricks.