Read the following news:
And here's my outlook...
In summary, the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) wants to update the IPPT system to 'stay relevant' by removing the SBJ station and amending the running segment of the test. The SBJ station maybe replaced by Push-ups and the usual 2.4 km run would have it's distance increased by 0.8 km to 3.2 km.
From a sports science point of view, the push-ups and pull-ups / chin-ups exercises stresses the upper body and both exercises are compound exercises (exercises that involves multiple muscle groups simultaneously) with emphasis on stressing the upper body muscle groups. By doing 2 upper body compound exercises (push-ups and pull-ups / chin-ups), the person would be tired out more quickly and the physical performance would deteriorate.
The running portion of the IPPT test (currently is 2.4 km) is one of the 'Most-Failed' segment of the IPPT test. Trying to increase the distance to 3.2 km would be a particularly bad decision and there maybe an increase in failure rates.
Overall, the changes to the current IPPT system is not at all pleasant nor logical as the implementers of IPPT have not yet found a sound way to reduce the amount of failure rates in IPPT and yet wants to further modify the IPPT system for the worse.
What have to be understood is that the civilian conscripts have their own life and are different from full-time servicemen who have the time and energy available to train for long hours to prepare themselves physically for these IPPT tests. The civilian male population have to work in a competitive local environment where their jobs are being challenged by the ever quickly expanding local population and after a hard day's / week's work, they have to prepare for IPPT and National Service.
That is way too much things for the civilian male population in Singapore to do. How would the civilian population be able to pass their IPPT ?
Also, imagine you are the boss of a company, would you want an employee to
come to you to take a few hours off for their IPT/RT/IPPT sessions or to
leave for a week or a month to attend for NS matters ? My boss once
asked me the relevance of all these IPPT system when I was about to
leave work to tend to IPPT matters and I was unable to reply him.There
is a saying that time itself is money and wasted time is money lost.
Which company would want their employees leave work earlier to tend to
NS matters which would cost the company precious work hours and
indirectly lose possible profits ?
What is the true significance of IPPT when it has not much sense to it ?
Please read my earlier posts regarding my dissection of the IPPT system to understand much of the woes of this IPPT system.
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