Dr Punam Krishan on how Strictly ‘was the best thing I’ve done for my health and fitness’
Dr Punam Krishan on how Strictly ‘was the best thing I’ve done for my health and fitness’
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If Dr Punam Krishan could write a prescription to take part in Strictly Come Dancing for her unfit patients, she probably would. The resident doctor on the BBC’s Morning Live show, who also works full-time as an NHS GP, took part in the last series of Strictly herself, and says it had a huge positive impact on her health and fitness, as well as being a fantastic experience.
“It’s been the best fitness journey of my life, hands down,” she declares. “At first I was a bit anxious and I didn’t know how I was going to do it, but the training is so physical, and the dancing, and I was loving it. I’m more toned than I’ve ever been, and I had so much more energy as a result.
“And of course, there’s the mental wellbeing aspect as well – there’s mental fitness that you get as a result of dancing, and it brings so much joy. So all round, I think it was the best thing I’ve done for my health and fitness in my life.”.
She says her two children – 11-year-old son Aarish, and daughter Ellora, aged four – loved her being on Strictly. “My son and I have always watched Strictly together, and over the years he’d say ‘I can imagine you doing that one day mummy’, and I used to just laugh at him. But, of course, the joy in him when I told him that his mummy was going to do Strictly – it was just amazing to watch.
“So it felt like for a few months it wasn’t just a journey that I went on, the whole family went on it together, and they loved it.”. Krishan, 41, became the fifth contestant to be eliminated from the show at the end of October, but she was delighted that blind comedian Chris McCausland was the eventual winner.
