23 Oct 2007 - Gym Training Summary

This evening, everyone arrived a little later than usual. The strange thing was – Coach was still nowhere to be seen! We were openly secretly happy for a while, before Coach appeared – too bad…

And thus we began with a warm-up jog, followed by 4 x 40m sprints. First-appearance Dawn shocked the socks off everyone with her speed and everyone, feeling a bit mutinous today, egged Coach to race with her. Coach upped the stakes by declaring he would relieve us of the 100 push-ups if he lost – GAME ON.

On Christy’s sexy flag-off, Dawn piew-ed off, but a “wait wait wait” was heard – wah lau, FALSE START by Coach. The 2nd time, both shot off and Dawn led the initial distance before Coach overtook and alas, we were doomed to do the 100 push-ups.

Then it was off to the gym. We did just 2 sets of the 5 weights exercises – only because Coach had something more exciting up his short sleeves – we were going to play a real-life, arcade-style rowing game. With 4 in a group, the team which logs greatest total distance on the rowing machine wins a dinner!

Line-ups:
Team A – Freddy, Christy, Jon, Jessica
Team B – Desmond, Ken, Dawn and Su Li (almost disowned by the team cos she offered to surrender – before we even started?!?)

With such an attractive proposition, Ken was all psyched up and everyone gaped in awe as he rowed like a man possessed and threatened to yank the chain off the machine while falling off the seat – a formidable backpack indeed. In other news – Jon was put to the test rowing beside Dawn as her power hamstrings propelled her to achieve good mileage.

It was an exciting game where everyone threw in all the energy they had – well done Teams! Spent and delirious, everyone collapsed with their limbs splayed all over the place. Coach whipped out his trusty handphone to tabulate the total distances (whatever happened to good old mental sums??) And the winning team was… *DRUM ROLL…* Team B!

YAY very good can go for dinner already.

As we sauntered out of the stadium, Jon was observed to be woozy and sat down to rest. Diagnosis by medic-wannabes concluded it was due to: Insufficient warm-up before plunging into the rowing game – resulting in a surge in heart-rate and breathing, causing lightheadedness and a puke-ish feeling. But not to worry, nothing a good meal can’t solve! So we ended with a trip to Coach’s family restaurant where we cleaned up a good deal of the food.

Good workout today and a great makan session after!

=Chief Editor signing off=