New Delhi is not the best place in the world to train for an expedition in the arctic environment. It’s a busy, bustling and pretty crazy city that is difficult to walk around and while there are parks littered throughout, the air quality is far from the best in the world (amongst the worst ten places in the world, and frequently at the top of the list, especially in winter when farmers burn crop stubble and cold air keeps the smoke trapped over the city). So it was a nice bonus finding Vesna’s Alto Celo pilates studio where Vesna and her husband Anuraag Jacob, together with a few other teachers, provide one-on-one pilates coaching… and not just pilates… After telling them about the expedition, they are helping me with more functional training focused on developing my core, and muscles that I will be using to pull the 80kg sled across the Greenland ice-cap. Can be tiring though started to real feel the difference after a few sessions, so after a couple of months going now.