CNA : 5 housing estates to have fitness corners for NSmen to prepare for IPPT

5 housing estates to have fitness corners for NSmen to prepare for IPPT:
SAFRA
By Imelda Saad, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 03 March 2010 1930 hrs

SINGAPORE: It's a recommendation made by the latest RECORD committee to help
NSmen to prepare for their Individual Physical Proficiency Test.

There will soon be ten fitness corners in five housing estates to make it
convenient for them to keep fit and train.

All the upgraded fitness corners are scheduled for completion within the
next few months.

NSmen living around Bukit Purmei will now have better facilities to train
for their IPPT.

The enhanced fitness corner located at Hilllock Park, near Block 108 Bukit
Purmei Road is the first to be completed under the IPPT-In-Your-Community
project.

It was opened by SAFRA's President and Minister of State for Defence,
Associate Professor Koo Tsai Kee.

The upgraded facility comprises stations with sit-up benches, chin-up bars,
and facilities for shuttle run and standing broad jump.

In addition, running routes will be clearly demarcated for 2.4 kilometre
practice runs.

MP for Tanjong Pagar GRC, Sam Tan said: "It is very important to make IPPT
training facilities convenient to NSmen who live in the HDB estate. So, this
facility will allow our NSmen to train up their physical fitness even within
their own neighbourhood near their doorsteps."

Besides Tanjong Pagar, the enhanced fitness corners will be set up at
Bishan-Toa Payoh, Sembawang, Tampines, and West Coast estates.

Over 3,000 NSmen are expected to benefit from these fitness corners.

Col Chan Chee Pong, chairman, IPPT In Your Community Project, said: "First
of all, if already fitness corners are there and we can enhance it, upgrade
it, we'll do that first. For building new fitness corners, that will
probably come in at a very different phase of this entire development. There
are many fitness corners within all the HDB estates. So, we're going every
particular corner that can be enhanced or upgraded and we'll start off with
that. Only at a later stage, then we will decide what else needs to be
done." - CNA/vm