page_title: The Great Gama
section_title: Training and diet
hierarchical_section_title: The Great Gama / Training and diet
caption_attribution_description: English: A photo of a dand (a.k.a. Hindu push-up) being performed by an Indian wrestler. The wrestler is possibly the famous 'Great Gama'.
context_page_description: Ghulam Mohammad Baksh Butt, commonly known as Rustam-e-Hind and by the ring name The Great Gama, was an Indian wrestler who remained the undefeated champion of the world.
  Born in Amritsar in the Punjab Province of colonial British India in 1878, he was awarded the Indian version of the World Heavyweight Championship on 15 October 1910, and went on to defeat free style wrestling champions across the world. Undefeated in a career spanning more than 52 years, he is considered one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. During the partition of India, the Great Gama saved the lives of many Hindus and then spent the rest of his days until his death on May 23, 1960 in Lahore, which became a part of the newly created state of Pakistan.
context_section_description: Gama's daily training consisted of grappling with forty of his fellow wrestlers in the akhada (court). He did a minimum of five thousand baithaks (Hindustani word for squats) (avg. speed  100-200 squats per minute) and three thousand dands (Hindustani word for pushups) (avg. speed 50-100 pushups per minute) in a day and even sometimes more within 30 to 45 minutes each by wearing a doughnut-shaped wrestling apparatus called a Hasli of 1 Quintal (approx. 100 kilos). Gama's everyday diet included
  10 litres of milk
  1.5 pounds of almond milk
  Half litre  of ghee
  six pounds  of butter
  three buckets of seasonal fruit
  Two desi mutton
  Six desi chicken or 36 whole eggs
  fruit juices
  and other ingredients to promote his digestive system and muscular health.
caption: Gama performing a dand
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