
Lakshmi Kumar
The Puducherry-born Lakshmi Kumar is the founder of Phoenix Fitness Studio at Santhome in Chennai. Even as he chose journalism as his profession and worked as Assistant Editor in The Hindu, India?s national daily, bodybuilding remained his passion. He is a certified fitness coach with over two decades? experience and has four certifications, including three international programmes. His wife Srimathy, also a certified trainer and fitness columnist, is the Director of Phoenix Fitness Studio.