{"id":708006,"date":"2026-06-01T09:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T09:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/708006\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T09:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T09:51:10","slug":"virat-kohlis-fitness-secrets-from-eating-40-toffees-a-week-to-following-a-strict-diet-training-routine-and-discipline-the-transformation-journey-of-crickets-fittest-athlete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/708006\/","title":{"rendered":"Virat Kohli&#8217;s fitness secrets: From eating 40 toffees a week to following a strict diet, training routine, and discipline\u2014the transformation journey of cricket&#8217;s fittest athlete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kohli openly credits diet as the cornerstone of his physical transformation. Speaking to Star Sports, he laid it out plainly: &#8220;You can go to the gym and work hard. But with food, it is very different. You have taste buds, and it&#8217;s linked to your own mind wanting something and not wanting something.&#8221; And then he said something that sounds almost absurd until you believe he means it: &#8220;I can eat the same thing for the next six months, three times a day. I have no issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Around 90% of his food is steamed or boiled. No masala. Just salt, pepper, and lime. He&#8217;s gone fully plant-based in recent years, trading grilled chicken and red meat for lentils, quinoa, vegetables, and protein shakes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kohli openly credits diet as the cornerstone of his physical transformation. Speaking to Star Sports, he laid it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[64,63,538,137,159411,2131,157751,84466,344381,344382],"class_list":["post-708006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-rcb","tag-virat-kohli","tag-virat-kohli-diet","tag-virat-kohli-fitness","tag-virat-kohli-fitness-and-diet","tag-virat-kohli-workout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}