The Physical 'Challenges' Ahead...

The challenges which i meant was basically the challenges which lie ahead of the program, U RE THE MAN. We started off with Physical Endurance at Sentosa! Nice sunny weather for a good tan i would say for that day..Not knowing what we gotta do, we reached a place called Wave House. That's something new to me, and we found out that it was a place for wake-boarding enthusiasts who yearn to have slices of wake-boarding experiences. The producers knew that none of us have prior experience in wake-boarding, and posed us with the 1st challenge.

So the 1st challenge was...Balancing! The aim was to balance ourselves as long as we can on the wakeboard. We were given approximately 1 hour of crash course by the instructors. I would have to say it was quite demoralizing as i kept falling! Haha! Well, all in the name of fun and i did enjoyed that experience. Leon was the best at it, he got the 'tune' quite steadily i would say. After every segment of the coaching and training, the real thing was coming up. I wasn't confident, and i was praying that i would not end up as the last one, and at least let me stay for a few couple of seconds, because i didn't managed to stay even for 1 sec! Oh my goodness! It was my turn and i was giving all sorts of funny expressions and stuff, and i thought it was hilarious! I managed 6 secs by God's grace and wasn't the last fella. Needless to say, the best timing belonged to Leon, 27 secs for him. Good job!

Stage 2 of Physical Endurance, we went to Snow City @ Jurong. The aim was to endure the coldness under the temperature of -10 degree celsius. The hosts were clothed with winter outfit while the 10 of us were only put in windbreakers. Shivering cold i guessed. Things that we need to do...Part 1 was to eat ice kacang, then sing a song or a 'cold' joke with the fan blowing into our face. Part 2 was to blow as many balloons with the snow flakes falling on you..Part 3 was to do bare-footed skipping!Oh my goodness...Frankly speaking, i wasn't quite affected by the whole cold stuff, and went about doing my job. I was emerged as the winner for this part of the segment, having to blow the most balloons and not giving up in any of the challenges that were posed to us. I am a person who possessed quite a high tolerance for coldness, but melts easily in the heat..Haha! Nevertheless, everyone of us suffered frost-bite on our toes, and complained for 2 weeks. Heck of an experience!

Part 3 and we were back to Sentosa...We gotta climb and run thru high obstacles course..the hosts kept emphasizing the fact that i am the oldest among all. Well, thats for entertainment value i guessed..Well, being oldest is not a burden in terms of fitness challenges like this. Haha! At least, i emerged the fastest in my group though not the fastest among the 10 of us. In fact, i thought i should have done better if not for 1 part which i got stuck. Well, as a fitness instructor's point of view, it's not the best way to gauge one's fitness endurance. Nonetheless, the obstacle course was really interesting, reminded me of army days and i thoroughly enjoyed that.

End of Challenge No.1 and next we moved on the Challenge No.2...Oh ya! Challenge 1 winner was Dennis. He was the fastest in clearing the obstacle. His timing at 3min ++ was sickening. Had no idea how he did it, but advantage for him was he's lightweight. We started calling him 'Lau Gau' (monkey in hokkien). Haha!