NS Physical Training Phase PTP

ditzy SG

wah 275m shuttle run! Laughing

Ponders SG

Shed more light on this???

Well... basically there are 2 kinds of warming up exercises now.

1 is modified standard SAF warm-up. Basically has same "principle" like the old one just that now got "vertical-jump" -like type of training. then got jogging on the spot.

2 is Combat PT 1 & 2. Combat PT is for warming up before "combat"-type training like SOC. its 10 different types of warm ups which includes "traditional" things like push up, crunches. but alot of back strecthing. then there will be 100m shuttle run and 100m of "sprinting with small steps but each step should not exceed your other toe and leg raised to 90 degrees"

Combat PT 2 is done AFTER the combat type activity.. dun remember the list off hand... if i am not wrong it involves some assisted pull ups.

Gym and circuit training is now phased out. Replaced by weights training. trainees with have a set of 3, 4 or 5kg weights.

ET runs are replaced by ability group runs. this is when there are no fixed distance but trainees will be asked to run progressively at 15, 20, 30 minutes at the pace they would run 2.4km to pass.

k.... why this PT was implemented is because they noticed that progress thru the old syllabus is not encouraging and slow. most of the improvement is done by trainee's own initiatives or RT.

So a group of PTIs along with PE researchers (people with related academic expertise) along with ADF, G6, ATEC, SPT studied the mechanics of human body and designed a new pt sylaabus to suit better the shorter NS stinit.

LoVeMeLoVeMenOt SG

Hmmm sounds interesting!

Doesn't seems tough to me too...

wuming78 SG

interesting and weird.

btw, i think the combat PT is not classified as "warming up" exercises. 100 m shuttle run and sprint for warm-up sounds abit tiring. and combat PT 2, which is done AFTER combat type activities include chin-up?! abit asking for too much? and i don't suppose that can then be classified as cooling down exercise - you would need separate cooling down after chin-ups.

and does it then mean combat PT 1 and 2 will be done in your combat activity attire, i.e. long 4? and combat PT would not be conducted in isolation, but always part of a combat type activity?

one-niner SG

i can understand your feelings man ...my fren enlisted for BMT in Nee Soon Camp's 7 BTS then ..it was hell..if any of the forummers are bte 27 and above, you should recall the PT field , the lampost numbers and the famous of them all ..the PTI called Monkey God ...

Not to mention the Stand by Beds in parade square..

Moxie SG

I sense I'm one of the oldest on this board. Put it this way: As a recruit, I didn't even make half of the $240 mentioned here. Not so much low standard of living (a night at an Orchard disco cost $50/- then) but a case of the SAF paying NSFs peanuts & justifying that they're already providing meals & abodes.

My time was the days when log PT was a tekan standard; we even jogged with them in Tekong, & also while carrying medicine balls. I could still recall my DI proclaiming "You Delta Donkeys had it good" - we're Delta Dragons, honest ~lol~ - cuz when HE was a recruit the unfit were running with sandbagged fullpacks (already banned then).

Ponders SG

Yes, combat pt is done in combat type activity. and 2 is done after. I just learnt from my CO that there is combat pt 3 & 4 but SPT have not taught us about it so maybe it is not going to be implemented.

PT 2 is not cooling down, its just more training BEFORE cooling down.

Yes, i foresee that it is going to be tiring, even "us" (those who went thru commander training) found it challenging too.

Well, the ATEC/SPT guys told us that they used it in 3SIR as trial and results came encouraging. They studied the 3 companies, 1 do this new type PT the other 2 used old PT. The company with new PT as it WAS SAID TO US performed way better.

But my friends who just got back from 3SIR told me it's the other way round. weird.

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