Reactiv Thera-band exercises (upperbody)

Reactiv has officially launch it's Health and Fitness Corporate program and is headed by Fuad Idris. This program is targeted for anyone in different level of fitness and is fun and interactive. It is hassle free, minimal logistics and maximum benefits! Incorporating the resistance band - Thera-Band®, and body weight exercises, we can have a full body workout even in your office! It is versatile and inexpensive, for sports performance or rehabilitation training.

Reactiv is currently working closely together with Lifeline in providing Health and Fitness programs to corporate and schools, athletes to elderly. So what can we do with the band? Please take a few minutes off to enjoy the demo video done by us :
Reactiv Thera-Band exercises (upperbody)

having fun doing the video !

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ACSi Sprint King 2011

On the 5th of November, ACSi conducted their annual Sprint King event supported by Reactiv. This is the 2nd Sprint King event since and the participation has been going on well. The participants came from ACS (Junior) and ACS (Primary). Our target is to talent scout for sprinters from the ACS family. These athletes are in Primary 5 and this allows us to select our runners and offer DSA for the kids. Apart from sprinters selection, this is also a great chance for the kids to watch how the seniors train in Secondary level and also as an orientation for them if they should consider ACSi as their choice.


This year we have only 8 participants. The number doesn't seem convincing due to school holidays and many schools activities going on. Nevertheless, that did not stop us from running our Annual Sprint King event.

The seniors guided the P5 into our usual warm up routine and demonstrated the movement of the required drills and exercises. I strongly encourage mentorship as this is beneficial to both the seniors and juniors. By teaching, the seniors can also improve their own knowledge of the running technique.

We did drills and exercises and some agility runs to include some fun component in it. The races were done at the end of the session where the boys were required to sprint 60m for a round of heats and finals. From the group of boys, we identified a few potential sprinters and they were looking great during their drills and even in the race.



The participants were all given a T-shirt each, sponsored by Reactiv.



I am very excited about this project and I believe in the future this will be a big event that will attract much more athletes. All thanks to the ACS family, the teachers and coaches, student helpers who have helped out in this event.
See you next year :)

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POLITE Games 2011

Over the weekend we had our POLITE Games held at Bishan Stadium which was proudly hosted by Republic Poly. It was scorching hot early in the morning and our competitors from various institution gave their best performance despite the threatening weather. There were a total of 6 participating institution namely, Singapore Poly, Ngee Ann Poly, Nanyang Poly, Temasek Poly, Republic Poly and ITE with the largest number of participants coming from Singapore Poly – 60 participants.

Republic poly sent a contingent of mainly track athletes and out of the 37 athletes, only one representative contested in the women triple and long jump – Shireen. She also contributed in the 4 x 100m relay and received 2 silver medals from the jumps, out of the 3 events she participated.

Zaki leading the pack with Khalis fighting for his 3rd position.

Another outstanding performance came from Zaki Sapari of RP. He dominated the 400m and the 400mH coming in first for both events with a time of 50.63s and 54.13s respectively. My biggest surprise was Khalis, who did not train and clocked a reasonable time of 54.01s and managed to fight to a 3^rd position in the 400m finals.

Don Ng was also the dark horse in the sprints events. He managed to squeeze to the finals in the 100m and 200m. He ran many races in the 2 days event in POLITE, heats and finals plus the 2 relays.

It was a huge disappointment however when Don did not manage to complete the baton transaction from the 3^rd to the 4^th leg. Zaki slowed down for Don but he still fumbled and dropped the baton. It was a huge set back for the RP team.

However his efforts was paid off when he anchored the 4 x 400m team and finished 40m ahead of the 2^nd team to clinch the gold medal in the long sprints relay. Our 4 runners did really well and fought for the name of RP, with Khalis starting the 1^st leg, followed by Zaki who pull the gap away from the other schools and Shanker extending the lead further more, giving Don a big lead to finish the race comfortably.

Habibah leading with Natalie just behind.

RP is also quite lucky to have Natalie and Habibah to help us in the short sprints. I was hoping for some medals from them and indeed, they came in 1^st and 2^nd for the 100m and the 200m. Therefore I think I made the right decision to put Sok Hong in the 200m, and the 400m to let her have a chance to race in the finals. She did us proud by qualifying to the finals in the 400m.

Photos from: Zaki Facebook , RP office student affairs staff

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Speaking in the Health Carnival @Sembawang Shipyard

I was honoured to be invited to Sembawang Shipyard to talk about Sports injury prevention on their 3 days Health Carnival. All Thanks to Mr Luke Hung, Mr Rosli and Khalis for their great help and assistance.

It was my first time visiting a shipyard and seriously, it's huge... It was rather interesting to see the workers and staff cycling around the shipyard as it is really too far a distance to walk from one place to another. I didn't have the chance to explore further, as my main objective is to deliver a Health talk. There were booths and stores by external vendors selling health products and game stores with Xbox gaming for prizes waiting to be won!

I was given an hour slot to share about basic understanding of running, common injuries and how to prevent it by demonstrating stretching exercises.

Looked a little serious...

Topic of the Day!

Very Serious and Attentive Participants..

Not too serious please..


At last a smile was spotted!

Try to reach for your elbows, opps, sorry.. Try to stretch your Biceps :P

Understanding the importance of hipflexors and how it will cause backaches.

Did you see what's on the screen??

Many companies are very concerned about the well being and the health and fitness of their employees. I supposed the welfare of their staff are really well taken care off. It can be seen from these initiatives by bringing external vendors to conduct training sessions/workouts and talk/workshops to increase the awareness of healthy living. The trend has been significantly increasing, especially in the corporate world. I hope I can be of some help to the office crowd, giving them more ideas to workout even in their restricted small workplace - Introducing Theraband!

We will talk more about the Theraband in the next post :)

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Hirokazu Kobayashi Workshop

Prof Hirokazu Kobayashi

A project initiated by Mr Melvin Tan and Myself to help the 4 x 100m relay team check and discuss about our next 10weeks of training. We invited Prof Hirokazu Kobayashi from Japan - Coaching Director of Japan National Training Centre, Senior Lecturer of IAAF and Beijing RDC Sp. Researcher. His vast experience in Strength and Conditioning - body control and stabilizing exercises, helped the coaches and the athletes to understand their weaknesses in the core strength.

The workshop started off with basic understanding of sprinting and what the Japanese training system is currently doing. We had a great question and answer session with Prof. Since language was a barrier, we engaged Ken (also a sprinter in Singapore) for the help of a translation. We discussed about the training methods and technique of how the Japanese sprinters train. He also spoke about some training equipment used by the Japanese track team, the flexible hurdles.



We went on for practical session in the Singapore Sports School gym. We did many exercises to strengthen the core muscles and body alignment. Prof Kobayashi is amazing, demonstrating all exercises with proper posture and technique at the age of 55! Even many of our young and fit athletes couldn't do it.

I invited our Republic Polytechnic team to attend the workshop and we had lots of fun doing the exercises.



I sincerely thank all those who are involved in this project, and appreciated their support even though it was in such a short notice. Special thanks to the following people: From SAA: Mr Tang, Mr K, Mr Ong, Mr James Wong, Mr Low and Jinlong. Sports school for providing the venue, The athletes and coaches who came and attend the workshop, the translator - Ken and lastly Mr Melvin Tan for assisting me to make this happen.

We hope to have more of these experts to help and assist us in the future!

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