BRING THE A-GAME
Armin Baniaz Pahamin: President of Proton Edar Dealers Association Malaysia and Co-Founder of Chief's Original Bootcamp Malaysia (right); and Dr Malek Aziz: Co-Founder of Chief's Original Bootcamp Malaysia.
Having being diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia at the age of 15 and given only three years to live, Armin Baniaz Pahamin future prospects were not the brightest. Similarly, Dr Malek Aziz was also diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. After defying all expectations at the end of their successful cancer treatments, Pahamin and Dr Aziz decided never to take their health for granted and went on to found Malaysia very first military-inspired bootcamp, Chief's Original Bootcamp.
Armin: Original Bootcamp (COBC) was first brought to Malaysia by Master-Sergeant Rob Coad of Original Bootcamp Australia in 2009. When he decided to leave and focus on his business back home in Adelaide, Dr Malek and I, who were recruits at the time, decided we could not afford to let such a unique military-inspired training programme go to waste and took over the franchise. We wrote to Chief Gunny Brabon, the founder of Original Bootcamp Australia and a former service member of the Royal Australian Army, and, shortly after, he visited Malaysia to train our first batch of instructors to be certified Military Fitness specialists.
As Dr Malek and I are both cancer survivors, we both strive to take the best care of our health as you never know when you might robbed of your quality of life. Furthermore, being active and fit means that we are able to perform better in the workplace. The law of diminishing returns states that after a few hours, our performance at a given task will naturally suffer but, by being healthy, we can now work longer hours before burning out.
Bootcamp instils teamwork and discipline in its participants. It does't matter who you are or what your race or religion is; if someone commits an infraction, everyone is penalised with push ups! There is no preferential treatment given. This translates to the workplace and we also find that we are more objective oriented as a result.
While I have run nine full marathons, scaled Mt Kinabalu on three occasions and even attempted the Langkawi Ironman Triathlon, my proudest achievement, as well as Dr Malek (who is 61 years old), is that we can still find the motivation to wake up for COBC™ 5:45am sessions three times every week. We owe this to the exemplary camaraderie with our fellow recruits and instructors, who hold us accountable if we miss sessions.
This article first appeared at https://thepeak.com.my/uncategorized/bring-the-a-game/
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