New Delhi, Sept. 26 -- In the fall of 2017, when Tejaswin Shankar arrived at the Kansas State University as a freshman, his 19-year-old body weighed 78kg with a fat percentage of around 8%. At 6'4", his frame was lean with relatively little upper body muscle mass and he checked most of the anthropometric characteristics associated with elite high jumpers. "His leg-to-torso ratio was in excess of 50%, and he had a high centre of mass. Those are the broad factors you'd notice in elite high jumpers," strength and conditioning expert Wayne Lombard recalled. Nearly nine years on, Tejaswin weighs 90kg with a markedly more muscular build. The fat percentage has dropped to 5%, and his pectorals, latissimus dorsi, and deltoids are well-defined, givi...