Remember that I was saying I was up for something that I’ve not done before last month? and I will be out of Malaysia every weekend. Well, that something that I’ve not done, is done for as I received an email last week from the Singapore Sports Council informing me that I’ve successfully passed my Sports Massage course. And as mentioned on the title, I’m now a Certified Sports Masseur.

The 6 weekend course was a great one as I learned so much new things from the trainer of the course who is a Sports Rehabilitation Specialist with the Singapore Sports Council, assisted by one Senior Physiotherapist and two senior sports masseur. And of course, a short exposure to the Singapore fitness industry shows how much our country are actually lacking behind in terms of promoting fitness and healthy lifestyle by our government.

Out of the 22 students, only 6 of them including me are people working in the fitness industry (PT, GFI and Sports Trainer of a soccer team), 1 national Singapore athlete and the rest are fitness enthusiast who wants to learn something new that are not related to their profession at all. Talk about diversity? Hmm …

We were also given task to massage Singapore national athletes as part of our training. I was given one Netball player from the national junior team, and one Weightlifter who is training for the next Commonwealth game. Feedback from them? “It’s good and relaxing” said the Netballer. While the weightlifter actually added me on Facebook and thanked me for loosening his tight back and managed to improve on his Snatch training the next day. I really hope they are honest with me 🙂

Massage therapy anyone?