When he entered Basic Military Training, Corporal First Class (CFC) (NS) Venkat Subramaniam was 108kg. His fitness was in the dumps and he would fail his Individual Physical Proficiency Test (IPPT) with a 2.4km timing of 17min and 50s.
Meet Private Asher Ong - he gets busy when others are resting during admin time, filling up his notebook with sketches of his life at the Basic Military Training Centre. The 21-year-old has made over 200 sketches and notes over the past two months!
Ex-competitive swimmer 2LT Tey Yi Jun scored a full 100 points for IPPT when he took it for the first time during BMT, and has since maintained this record – for seven more times.
LTC Twelve Lim has scored 100 points for his IPPT four times! His secret? Healthy eating and regular training.
In a company full of Operationally Ready National Servicemen (NSmen), arranging manpower to cover another man’s job whenever he has to go for his In-Camp Training (ICT) is no easy task.
His fitness level may have dropped after a year of sedentary lifestyle due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but Lieutenant (LTA) (NS) William Xin Loong Werry is confident of scoring a Gold for his Individual Physical Proficiency Test (IPPT) this year.
Even before joining the Army, LTA Muhammad Irfan had already set his sights on getting full marks for his IPPT.
ME3 Joseph Ng plays sports with his sons every weekend to maintain his fitness and avoid getting a "dad bod". That’s what has helped him score full marks for IPPT in the past two years!
FIT@Home will give NSmen the added flexibility of fulfilling their NS FIT requirements at home.
What unfinished business does CFC (NS) Johnathan Chua have in the Naval Diving Unit (NDU), and what exactly is the '3-second legend' of NDU-lore?
The new Central Manpower Base (CMPB) at Bukit Gombak officially opened its doors on 14 Oct, welcoming pre-enlistees, servicemen and the public alike to a state-of-the-art, one-stop hub for all things National Service (NS).
Would you reschedule your honeymoon to cover for a colleague while he went for In-Camp Training (ICT)? Ms Ulfah Khairiah Binte Aman did just that in December last year.
LTA Felicia Yap has been scoring 100 points for IPPT for four consecutive years. Find out how she does it, in the third of our 100-pointer IPPT series.
Find out how SSG Isaac Restan went from obese to fit and eventually scored full marks for IPPT in 2020 and 2022, in the first of our 100-pointer IPPT series.
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