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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73rd Singapore Open Track and Field Championship 2011

We witnessed the 73rd Singapore Open over the weekend with 36 teams - ( foreign and local ) participating. It has been a long while since we enjoyed the crowd filling up the stadium for both days. The Championship was held in Bukit Gombak Stadium for 2 full days. The appearance of the stadium looks quite different this time, with decorated flower pots and nice tentage. They also hired a DJ to provide music for the whole event.

The Singapore Masters also participated in the event. I've never been to the Master Track and Field meet before and this time, it was an eye opener for me to see our veteran runners competing. This is also very motivating for our younger athletes as the veterans displayed their determination and passion for the sport.

Republic Poly sent a small team to prepare for the upcoming POLITE games in October. A small team was sent to expose themselves to the competition atmosphere as most of them were first timer in Athletics. We saw improvements from previous results and we are eager and hungry to achieve more.

The weather was not on our side, it was a wet weather on Saturday where it was raining for the whole afternoon. Nikita ran her 400m heats in the rain and was made to wait for 4-5mins in the rain before the race started. Despite the difficulties that she faced, she managed to trash her PB by a second, and crossed the line with a time of 59.08s.

The Association also promised to award anyone who can break the Singapore Open record for $500.00. The Japanese 110m men's Hurdler - Iida Masayuki from Japan did 13.93s (0.2m/s) broke the championship record and earned himself a $500.00! The previous record was also set by a Japanese, Hideki Nomoto with the time of 14.11s back in 2007. This is also a new initiative by the SAA, giving away cash prizes to motivate and encourage better performances.

The next competition coming up will be the POLITE, 2 more months of preparation before we see the under 23 age group competing among themselves. It will be a crucial 3 months for those preparing for the SEA Games, stay healthy, fresh, positive and injury free!!

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Postponement of 4th Health & Fitness Training

Since our dedicated coaches are involved in the upcoming Singapore Open Track & Field Championships, the 4th Health & Fitness Training (21st Aug) will be postponed to the following Sunday morning (28th Aug).

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3rd Health & Fitness Outdoor Training

Reactiv 3rd Health & Fitness Outdoor Training was held on the 14th of July. The weather was perfect for our healthians to have about 1.5hours of exercise.

We did a total body weight training, on the upperbody, core muscles and the legs today as well. Doing exercises that involved the use of speed ladders and therabands, each healthian were able to reap the benefits of these exercises.

This outdoor training concept is to escape from the monotonous routine in an air-conditioned gym, and enjoy the outdoor breeze and sunshine. For anyone who is interested in this program, feel free to contact us at : enquiry.reactiv@gmail.com. We welcome you to join us with your group of friends in this fun and relax 1.5hr session at CCAB!!

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