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Now, in case any of you were wondering what went down at the second Urbanathlon Bootcamp Training Session by Polar, here are the details as promised (scroll to bottom for the video)...
For this second instalment, the Bootcamp took place at the scenic Hort Park. For warm-ups we started with some games:
Warm-up Game 1: Try and touch your buddy's knees. Forfeit: 5 Push-ups everytime your knee gets touched.
Warm-up Game 2: With your left hand grabbing your buddy's right wrist, try and slap your buddy with your right hand while avoiding getting slapped yourself. Forfeit: 5 Push-ups everytime your buddy succeeds in slapping you.
Warm-up Game 3: Prone arm-wrestling. Forfeit: 5 Push-ups everytime you get pwned.
Warm-up 4: Sprinting-on-the spot
After this it was off for a run...interrupted with sprint intervals. The first interval required two 50-metre sprints; the second saw this upped to four 30-metre sprints at an incline; and the third involved four 100-metre sprints at an even steeper incline up a hill! We were all well and truly knackered at this point, but it was only the halfway point of the day.
Next, we ran about a kilometre more before our next station. There, the Polar trainers put us through some team games involving relay sprints, jumping over each other, and a really strange, awkward one involving holding each others' hands. That one felt a little awkward but I think we were all too tired to protest (damn you Polar for making us look a dandy bunch!).
Our next station down the road was at a towering 25-floor HDB block. Here, we were told to run to the top floor, then run down to the 6th floor carpark, perform a set of exercises, run back up to the 25th floor and back down to the 6th floor carpark, and do another set of exercises to complete this station. I can tell you personally that most of us could not even force a jogging pace beyond the 3rd storey as much as we tried. Here are the exercise sets we performed in between trudging up a total of 63 flights of stairs...
(RIght: That's us taking a breather on the 25th floor)
After all that torturous stair-climbing, we finally ran back to the Hort Park, the start and end point for the day's 5km route. Brides, grooms and wedding parties greeted our return with rapturous cheer and applause (ok, so they weren't cheering for us so much as the respective newly-weds making their vows there). Myself, I was most chuffed at finishing the session without falling out having done so halfway through the previous bootcamp training session. Perhaps, there's still hope for me yet to finish the Urbanathlon. But first, let's see what the final bootcamp session has in store!
All the pictures and video here courtesy of Polar.
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