Kolkata based startup Optimum Wellness Academy is a premier online fitness and nutrition academy, offering one-on-one guidance and encyclopaedic mentorship in concepts like fitness, nutrition, and wellness. CEO and co-founder Alan Baptist talks about how his platform has helped others and how it can help you.
Please introduce yourself and your brand.
My name is Alan Baptist, and I’m an internationally certified Nutritionist(Canada) and Fitness and Wellness Coach. I’m passionate about health myself, and it’s the reason I founded a brand called Optimum Wellness and Optimum Wellness Academy. It’s a brand that offers coaching services for fitness and nutrition and thorough application-based, relevant and pragmatic education programmes about fitness, wellness and nutrition.
What inspired you to form this academy, or what took you to become a wellness coach?
My biggest inspiration is my brothers, Mr Vinit Baptist (Founder of Optimum Wellness & ZEST chain of fitness studios) and Mr. Vivek Baptist (President, Optimum Wellness Academy). Mr. Vinit Baptist has been an authority figure in the world of fitness, nutrition and preventative healthcare for almost a decade now. As I was someone who was always recognised for being deeply involved in academics, I felt that it’s truly important for every single individual to be aware of the fundamental questions surrounding food and movement. Every human being on the planet eats food and moves, and the kind of food you consume and how actively and frequently you move is a huge determining factor of your overall health markers in the long term.
The current Indian healthcare system is frankly quite overburdened with respect to offering holistic care to patients suffering from life-threatening disorders induced by a dysfunctional modern lifestyle. Hence us brothers have made it our life’s sole mission to empower the layperson with the relevant information to avoid becoming a victim to lifestyle orders, to begin with, and, as a result, take a significant load off the shoulders of our healthcare system to allow it to evolve more effectively to solve other advanced medical crises and challenges.
How does your Optimum Wellness Academy stand apart from other academies ? Please talk about the courses it offers.
Well, talking about Optimum Wellness academy, it’s an educational institution founded entirely and precisely with the idea of empowering the average layperson with sufficient information about fitness and nutrition to enable them to take charge of their life and health confidently.
Every individual has the absolute right to know, understand and be informed about how the food choices and the conscious decisions surrounding the activity levels they’re making over time impact their overall health.
We exist to bridge this knowledge gap they lack.
We offer all kinds of courses ranging in nutrition, wellness and fitness and Diabetes, Thyroidism, HyperTension, PCOS awareness programmes to holistic wellness and lifestyle certification and diploma programmes aimed at beginners to highly intensive and rigorous programmes on biomechanics, kinesiology and human anatomy for specific scholars who wish to enhance their knowledge deeply. We have Foundational, Professional and Advanced Programmes on all our courses.
How does the Optimum Wellness coaching company handle such situations if the client has a limited budget but simultaneously their wellness goals achievements are essential?
Regarding a budget, we’ve repeatedly observed at Optimum Wellness that limiting a client’s budget, in fact, does them an incredible amount of good, as when there’s a ceiling on the budget, you automatically avoid eating out, as an extension of which high-calorie “junk” food is no longer a part of the client’s dietary framework, you don’t order take out as often, and one ends up minimising their intake of packaged foods.
The belief that leading a healthy lifestyle is expensive is a complete falsehood and, perhaps, hands down, the largest myth that prevails as it stands in the industry.
Share some instances when your team provided guidance that resulted in a positive change for a client.
Oh, we have a 99.5% success rate with clients who follow exactly as we guide them. It’s all available to read on the blog section of our websites.
How does the online program work?
It’s a really easy and simple process. Our coaches have an elaborate conversation with anyone seeking a health transformation. Post that, a customised workout and nutrition plan is set, during which we constantly follow up with clients to keep them on track. Rinse and repeat the process for 90 days, and you will notice a significant change.
How can anyone benefit from studying your academy?
Everyone eats food. Everyone moves. Once they’ve formally studied at Optimum Wellness Academy and have a thorough grasp of the basics, they would now have the capacity to steer life in the directions they want strategically.
Which wellness or fitness certifications or licence do you provide your clients when the course is finished?
Our students have the licence to practise as fitness and nutrition professionals to assist clients with managing chronic lifestyle disorders and diseases and transform people’s well being for the better.
We also soon intend to launch extensive courses on business, entrepreneurship, interpersonal-textual-public-business communication, sexual wellness, networking and financial literacy modules to holistically optimize an individual’s life.
How does the academy keep the students stay up-to-date on best practices?
We have a flagship application available to download both over the Android PlayStore(Optimum Wellness Academy) and the iOS store(My Institute Code – FRVBB or Optimum Wellness Academy) that allows students to stay in touch with Optimum Wellness Academy and the Optimum Wellness faculty members for a lifetime. They have unrestricted access to updated material. This enables them to be in touch with the updated guidelines on nutrition.
Everyone should be interested in holistic education. If you’re someone who’s interested, Optimum Wellness Academy is a great place to start. The Academy offers lifetime education support to its students. The approach is simple. All you have to do is raise your hand for help and the dedicated team of mentors will never fail to guide you throughout your journey. This approach not only helps the students in their career growth but also gives everyone a chance to acquire holistic development.
“As a fitness coach, one of the most rewarding things about my job is seeing the progress of my clients. While some fitness programs claim to be more effective than others, the truth is that all of them require a lot of hard work and discipline from you,” adds Alan Baptist.
If you are interested in learning more about Optimum Wellness and Optimum Wellness Academy, you can visit the official website https://www.optimumwellness.in/ and https://www.owacademy.in/
