How is the army's gym like

Simon Dean SG · 2007-07-16T22:37:56+00:00

In my opinion, SPT and Bedok FICC gym are the better ones. The PTI CSM in Bedok FICC told me that the cost of equipment was $500,000. I am looking for a gym...

Simon Dean SG

Is it those fanciful kind like commercial gyms?

or

those old smelly smelly kind with hardly a machine but plenty of freeweights like dumbbells and barbells.

The latter is the best for training.

Xtrider SG

SAFTI and pasir laba camps are not bad..i think most camps have a revamp on their gyms, plenty of free weights..

barbells i think not much though..

Simon Dean SG

Do they have this rack whereby there is this long olympic barbell where people can do squats in it?

The machines are a waste of money.

Patrik SG

Tekong gym best.
My unit's gym like like...
Evil or Very Mad
Aircon spoilt,smelly equipment,spoilt equipment.

Xtrider SG

barbells? no…never seen them anywhere i think..u will have to go outside and do urself then..

borntolive SG

Laughing

U wont like the gym, in fact i hated it..

lets see in tekong, there are 4 same sets of those multi-station exercise machines. u know wad i mean, machine shoulder press, lat pull downs, cable rows, leg curl all in 1.

in additon, several threadmills..

there is no bench press, racks, benches and wad have u got. I dont even think they have dumbell n barbells. In fact i only saw 1 barbell in the gym n very little 5-10kg pastic plates. However i think the barbell is bought to the gym by one of the nsf which mean it doesnt belong to the gym...

That is for tekong, i not sure of other gyms, but i m pretty sure its the same. I been to Maju camp n the gym though is nicer but no better all multistation machines n threadmills.

U know why they dont include barbellm dumbells, bench, racks? its cause its pretty dangerous..

Simon Dean SG

machines are even more dangerous with all that forced and super straight movement.

How on earth are freeweights dangerous?Infact they are more useful for building a soldier's strength than some machines.

Nvm i think i will do parallel bar dips and pullups in the army instead.

nanren4ever SG

Maju Camp recently had their gym revamped, and it looks like any commercial gym. Treadmills, step-up machines, weights etc..

ord personnel SG

Which gym are you referring to? I think Tekong Gym refers to the Ladang Gym, the big one beside the swimming pool. I found the equipment rather good. The brand of the machines is FreeMotion, same brand used in California Fitness if I am not wrong. As the name suggests, the machines use cables instead of inflexible metal, which probably better simulates normal body range-of-motion. There is a rack with lots of dumbells, some treadmills and elliptical trainers. The other gyms are comparatively older and smellier Laughing

Simon Dean SG

i prefer gyms that are simple with freeweights.

Machines are pretty useless for building functional strength.Exceptions are cable pulley machines.

Marco_Simone SG

u wont have much time to use them anyway

Gordonator SG

u should check out ADF's gym. Laughing

Marco_Simone SG

Bedok FICC got many machines and DBs up to 25kg

KenPlus SG

BMT ones still ok lah but units one worst and i don’t like to go my unit gym when those officers see you training,they will have the impression u are very garang,and in the end often tio those extra running lah field excerise etc,true they say got offs but there no confirmation ones and in the end weekend burn for nothing

Simon Dean SG

Double standards Rolling Eyes

See you workout they cant stand it

See your fitness like crap in the field also cant stand it

Evil or Very Mad

GHoST_18 SG

no babes...

Laughing

Gordonator SG

Maju FCC gym is great by my standards. the favourite station among the NSmen is the cycling stations. Laughing

ouchtthurt SG

Aiya, hendon’s gym is surely the best.

daphnique SG

Jurong Camp II’s newly renovated gym looks great!

dark_riverter SG

I'm getting the idea here that you're one of those hardcore bodybuilder types. I used to be somewhat like that before I enlisted so I roughly know what you're looking for. Sad to say, SAF gyms don't cater to hardcore bodybuilders.

The machines are more training for endurance and physical fitness, rather than building great strength and muscles. In the army, it's more of doing 100 continuous reps of 5kg, rinse, repeat; rather than doing several sets of 8 reps of 100+ kg weights. You get the idea...

Anyway, just my own opinion here, I feel endurance training helps more for combat fitness than hardcore bodybuilding. Just my personal opinions, it's helped me cope better in army training and exercises, than when I enlisted at nearly 100kg mass.