NS Physical Training Phase PTP

• Moxie

  16 Dec 04, 16:07

  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 ...

  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

  17 Dec 04, 06:04

  Originally posted by wuming78:

  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?

  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.