Overview

• Pankaj Sharma, a 37-year-old resident of Raja Nahar Singh Colony and father of a 2.5-year-old, collapsed mid pull-up at a Sector-9 Ballabhgarh gym and was pronounced dead by Sarvodaya Hospital doctors.
• Gym members performed CPR twice after Sharma fell during his third shoulder pull-up following a cup of black coffee, but medical efforts failed to revive him.
• Local police have secured CCTV recordings and gym attendance logs as part of an ongoing investigation into the circumstances of the cardiac event.
• Sharma had spent the past four months attending the gym in an effort to lose weight and, according to his father, never used protein supplements or steroids.
• Cardiology experts are urging routine ECG and echocardiography screenings for individuals engaging in intense workouts to curb a growing trend of exercise-related cardiac arrests in India.