In my opinion, i always thought we have a pretty long sequence of warm-ups/cool-downs. Sometimes the guys team start their warm-ups later than us, and then when they finish, we are still not done.
The warm-up sequence begins from the head down to the legs, always starting with the left side... yes we are darn systematic. One thing's for sure, it always ends with jumping jacks. Every 2 jumping jacks, we count. Don't ask we why favour the even numbers more, coz it's always been done this way. Unless the sun has risen from the west that morning, you are never gonna do less than 60. With "last 10" being the only instruction, you never know how many you are gonna end up doing. 2 crucial elements when doing jumping jacks. Make sure the hands touch above the head and count loud. Coz if these 2 aren't fufilled, numbers will sky-rocket in no time. Who can forget the morning warm-up at SDBA where mong-na pushed the figure up to 200 coz the 20 of us were counting just loud enough for the little ants on the ground to hear.
Cool-down sequence starts from the legs up, and as usual, left sides first. Needless to say, the cool-down sequence is equally long. Which can get me pretty bored and impatient coz the end of cool-down marks the end of training, and sometimes you just hope training would end soon. So you can guess i'd always be damn happy when the captain says "neck stretch, left".
I can safely say that the most suspense-thrilling moment of water training cool-downs has gotta be just before it starts or the time between the quads stretch and back stretch. Coz everyone knows that if we are gonna do any push-ups, that will be the time. And with water training just finished, you always pray that that magic number is as small as possible. Once again, the only instruction given is "last one", so you are left having mind battles in your head anticipating how many you are gonna do. But experience will tell you that it's best just to let your mind go and do it. Coz the mind games is just gonna make you feel more miserable, needless to say, it's not gonna make the number smaller anyway.
Numbers range from 10 to infinity, depending on how many people were late that training or just the mood of the captains. With the most unforgettable being 30th October 2003 when Peiwen dished out a total of 100 push-ups, only allowing a short minute break at the 50 mark for people to catch up. On days when there are no push-ups, captains sometimes add a pregnant pause between these 2 cool-down stretches, just for the added suspense... cheap thrill or what.
The warm-up and cool-down sequences have pretty much stayed the same since the beginning of time. With the exception of added "bonuses", it's prehaps one of the most predicitabe parts of training... or so we are made to believe... heh heh heh!
The warm-up sequence begins from the head down to the legs, always starting with the left side... yes we are darn systematic. One thing's for sure, it always ends with jumping jacks. Every 2 jumping jacks, we count. Don't ask we why favour the even numbers more, coz it's always been done this way. Unless the sun has risen from the west that morning, you are never gonna do less than 60. With "last 10" being the only instruction, you never know how many you are gonna end up doing. 2 crucial elements when doing jumping jacks. Make sure the hands touch above the head and count loud. Coz if these 2 aren't fufilled, numbers will sky-rocket in no time. Who can forget the morning warm-up at SDBA where mong-na pushed the figure up to 200 coz the 20 of us were counting just loud enough for the little ants on the ground to hear.
Cool-down sequence starts from the legs up, and as usual, left sides first. Needless to say, the cool-down sequence is equally long. Which can get me pretty bored and impatient coz the end of cool-down marks the end of training, and sometimes you just hope training would end soon. So you can guess i'd always be damn happy when the captain says "neck stretch, left".
I can safely say that the most suspense-thrilling moment of water training cool-downs has gotta be just before it starts or the time between the quads stretch and back stretch. Coz everyone knows that if we are gonna do any push-ups, that will be the time. And with water training just finished, you always pray that that magic number is as small as possible. Once again, the only instruction given is "last one", so you are left having mind battles in your head anticipating how many you are gonna do. But experience will tell you that it's best just to let your mind go and do it. Coz the mind games is just gonna make you feel more miserable, needless to say, it's not gonna make the number smaller anyway.
Numbers range from 10 to infinity, depending on how many people were late that training or just the mood of the captains. With the most unforgettable being 30th October 2003 when Peiwen dished out a total of 100 push-ups, only allowing a short minute break at the 50 mark for people to catch up. On days when there are no push-ups, captains sometimes add a pregnant pause between these 2 cool-down stretches, just for the added suspense... cheap thrill or what.
The warm-up and cool-down sequences have pretty much stayed the same since the beginning of time. With the exception of added "bonuses", it's prehaps one of the most predicitabe parts of training... or so we are made to believe... heh heh heh!
2 comments:
quite a nice read, hahahaha
i love the jumping jacks part. too soft for the ants to hear ;]
ha, cindy you don't say loh,
you are famous for the "pregnant pause" syndrome...
purposely wanna see us have that stressed out (are we gonna do IT or not?!) look on our face only...
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