For NSmen of Singapore, if you did not manage to pass your IPPT within 1 year (starting from your birthday), you will need to attend Remedial Training (RT). RT is a twice a week Physical Training (PT) session that includes some simple exercise plus a 3 km run. All done in the company of fellow NSmen that had failed IPPT too.

It wasn't as bad as I thought. The PTIs knew most of use were physically ill-conditioned and hence the exercises are scaled down. The last session, we even played a game ("Are you smarter than your fellow RT mate?") whereby the losing side have to do twice the amout of repetition of sit-ups, push-ups etc.

What was most encouraging is that more than half (I would say majority) of the people actually take the training quite seriously. I mean, it's not easy to get 30 year olds like me to count out the timing when we're doing flutter kicks and burpees, but we did. Of course there are those slackers that are here just to pass time, who find every opportunity to skip the exercises and only walked 2 km out of 3 for the run.

Sound like a typical secondary school actually....

That's not all. From the PT sessions, I actually learn quite a bit (warm up and cool down routines, sequence of exercises, 'lesson plan' for PTs) that will prove useful when I take my NCC cadets for PT sessions. :)

I failed because of 3 seconds in my 2.4 run. After 3 weeks and 6 sessions, I passed and even got a silver!

Moral of the story? CPT Guay was fucking too lazy to run regularly, and have to depend of 'regimentation and routine' to get him to train, when he could have done it easily at his own pace. So sad...