WAGING WAR AGAINST OURSELVES.

I MISS BOOTCAMP

Since I became a bootcamper, my whole life took a turn. From a night owl to an early riser (with 8 hours of minimum sleep). Just before I began training at the bootcamp in 2009 in Padang Merbuk, my night life was at its prime. Party, clubbing, layparking was all me.

When I became hooked or addicted rather, to the bootcamp training at start 545am, my whole system was overhauled. Now a work-in progress to tame my Blood pressure back to normal and I shall be back on my feet and slowly build myself back to a Delta.

HOOYAH

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Thank you

IT IS MORE THAN FITNESS AND HEALTH

If we can measure health and fitness in monetary term, many people would be in overdraft or in great debts. Yes, that is how we had neglected our health. Likewise, there are these bunch of people whom are multi-millionaires (in health and fitness) having consistently workout for years at the Chief's Original Bootcamp. 

To make sure everyone is in the right path and direction, COBC organized a quarterly get together with recruits and the first partyfor this year 2016 was held at the Chef & Brew on 17 April 2016. This event was originally organised on a monthly basis the soonest we completed our 1 month of training. Heck.. in those days, not many can survive the whole month consistently without missing a session and that calls for a celebration (Actually we just want to party) but as time passesby, 80% of recruits every monthh are returning recruits and the one month of consistent training felt abit too easy. So we started celebrating it every quarter. We deserves to party after being discipline and consistent with our training.

This party too was organised so recruits can get up close and personal with COBC trainers from other platoons, acquainted with recruits from other platoons and as well as get to know those behind the scene, COBC admins. There are in total 10 platoons in total.

It was great to see Anna Chai, Danny, Surani and others whom has been working out at the Chief's Original Bootcamp as early as its inception in 2010. There were a few recruits whom had just join the bootcamp less than a month and I do hope you all were inspired to hear the success stories of the otais. Success is in term of discipline, weight lost, fat lost and as well as athletic performance. The oldest recruit in our bootcamp network are in their 60s and the youngest recruit is 17 years old. Todate, we have trained more than 9,000 recruits and majority of them are now avid runners, marathoners, ultramarathoners, cyclists and as well as triathletes.

Everyone shared their experience and journey towards a better health and fitness. At the Chief's Original Bootcamp, it is not always about health and fitness, it is all about friendship and a strong support community.

Bring The A-Game

 BRING THE A-GAME

Chasing a successful career and maintaining peak levels of fitness arena inherently incompatible with one another. Both require diligence, discipline and the unyielding drive to overcome immense obstacles. The Peak...

Thursday, March 24, 2016 By Editors

BEATING THE ODDS

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/

CHIEF'S ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP "NO BETTER FRIENDS, NO WORST ENEMY" ~ BATTLE OF PLATOONS 4.0

The battle of platoons is an annual event organised by the Chief's Original Bootcamp to foster the spirit of camaraderie between recruits from their own battalion and among others as well as to compete in a friendly manner. The strongest and the best teamwork battalion will be crowned the Champion. There are 5 battalions at the Chief's Original Bootcamp at Ampang, Bandar Utama, Cyberjaya, Damansara Heights and Subang Jaya.

For the first time in COBC history, Damansara Heights was disqualified for insufficient enrollment but in good spirit, recruits from Damansara Heights enjoins Bandar Utama. Damansara Heights platoon, codenamed the Highlanders was crowned Champion twice in the 4 years the Battle of platoons were organised. We also have a new battalion from Maxis whom have been under corporate training with COBC for almost a year. MAXIS is the first corporate company that promote and emphasizes health and fitness for their employees all year through and even sponsor their employees to keep fit. All was from the effort and dedication from Asni Afzah and her team from Maxis Employees Engagement department.

Captains were selected for each team and the Captains in charge were Jason Lee for the Spartans, Aston for the Barracudas, Shahrul for the Maxis-Titans and Amri for the Legends. There were 152 participants in the event; Spartans 39pax, Barracudas 36, Maxis Titans 37pax and the Legends 40pax. Those that participated in the Battle of Platoons 4.0 are as follows:

(list to be updated)

This year there were 4 battalions competing under their own team banner as follows:

BATTLE OF PLATOONS 4.0

The Chief's Original Bootcamp has declared a state of emergency for all battalion to be at Defcon 3. All platoons under each battalion to form a unit ready for battle. This is the fourth war cry for battle issued in half a decade.

At Defcon 3, all recruits at all battalion to increase their training intensity and ready for deployment. Our intelligent unit speculate a war will break out with the following details:

DATE: 8 November 2015
TIME: 5:30am - 9:30am
WAR ZONE: To be advice.
THEME: No better friend, no worst enemy.

What is the Battle of Platoons?

The Battle of Platoons is a special event organized to foster the spirit of camaraderie between recruits from all platoons. Most of the time, recruits only interact with their fellow platoon mate without any opportunity to meet recruits from other platoons. During the battle, recruits from all locations will gather at the war zone. Recruits from all ranks; Rangers, Seals and Deltas would have to work together and win points for their platoon.

The Battle of Platoons was first mooted by Senior Sarge Coad; COBC Regional Master trainer & Spec Ops Coordinator in 2009. "The challenge was conducted to determine which platoon is the strongest in a friendly, enjoyable and slightly competitive way".

Who can participate?

1. Any recruits that is registered and train at COBC. 

2. To enable more recruits to join & participate in the BOP 4.0, a special fee is extended for all past, present & new recruit at only RM99.50 per month for the month of October and RM99.50 for November (The fee is conditional on registration and payment for both November & December before November intake- total RM199.00 for 2 intakes). This RM99 per month is for all recruits registered for the months of October & November 2015.
3. All WIP and special recruits can defer their WIP payment to December and pay the "special fees" instead.

BOOTCAMP FOR LIFE~ 5th YEAR

Our journey with the Chief's bootcamp began 6 years ago in 2009 as a recruit at the bootcamp Padang Merbuk. Alike all others, we fell in love with the program at first sight. Prior to our training at the bootcamp, I have explored everything else from running, weight training, personal training, RPM, Body pump, swimming, triathlon, dualthon and even mountain climbing. My bootcamp partner Dr Malek Aziz too went through the same phase seeking and searching for an active lifestyle and training that can keep our mojo and fitness align with our medical history. Those who were given a second life having survived cancer would understand how nothing else matters but a good bill of great health. We love the program so much that we practically begged Chief Brabon and Gunny Hames to obtained the license to operate the program at Bandar Utama in 2010. The thought of not having the program being run in Malaysia was a nightmare having discovered the previous licensee wanted to opt out.

That was the beginning of our journey running the world's oldest military inspired bootcamp in Malaysia. When the licensee for Subang Jaya, Cyberjaya, Damansara Heights and Shah Alam too opted out from the network, we quickly took over. It was all for the passion for fitness. Not much for the money but for the network of people that shares similar passion as us. 

The Chief's Original Bootcamp is where it all started. It revolutionize the whole concept of exercising in Malaysia. That was during the period where all the boutique gym mushrooms throughout Malaysia. We went against the odd to establish the outdoor group fitness concept ala Military training. Now, the bootcamp concept had grow from just the Chief's Original Bootcamp to dozens of others but todate, the Chief's Original Bootcamp is the only bootcamp in Malaysia where the program is actually designed by former and currently serving infantry soldier, namely the Royal Australian army. Of course, the program is then customize for civilian training. At the Chief's Original Bootcamp (COBC), we deliver the program that was professionally and scientifically design to reap out the maximum results. The founder Chief Brabon and his Master Global trainers (whom design the program for COBC) establish the program way back in 1999; for already 16 years!!

SPECIAL SESSION WITH MASTER SARGE COAD, GLOBAL MASTER TRAINER

January 3rd - Special Session with Master Sarge Coad.

UPDATE: To register for the complimentary session with Master Sarge Coad, please email: admin@bootcampmalaysia.com.

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Master Sergeant Coad is the 3rd highest ranking in the world's oldest military-inspired bootcamp, Original Bootcamp, Australia (known as Chief's Original Bootcamp in Malaysia). He was the first man responsible to bring the Original Bootcamp program to Malaysia in 2008 and we took over in 2010. He last visited Malaysia and conducted a session in 2009 and he is coming back to Malaysia for a short transit on 1st January. Rob had agree to conduct a session for Malaysia recruit on Saturday, 3rd January 2014 at Pre-Dawn. The last session we did with Master Sarge had left us with a strong impact till today. This is one special session that no one should missed. Below, is his brief background. 

Master Sergeant Rob Coad

A former member of  the Royal Australian Army’s 2nd Calvary Regiment (Armoured Surveillance Troop), Rob is no stranger to the intensity and effectiveness of the military’s discipline based training methods. As the Franchise Owner and Head Trainer of 5 separate ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP licenses in Adelaide, Rob has quickly become one of the countries most respected Bootcamp instructors, and a highly sort after fitness advisor. Rob recently returned from Sydney where he had been representing ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP as Senior Conditioning Coach for the 2009 series of the Gladiators television series.

As if Rob isn’t busy enough heading up some of ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP's most successful Bootcamp programs, he is also the National Coordinator for ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP’s exciting new adventure training program, Spec Ops.

Rob’s Qualifications include:

• Certificate III in Fitness Instruction
• Certificate IV in Fitness Instruction
• International Fitness Master Trainer Certification
• THUMP Certified Advanced Boxing Specialist
• Certified Level II Military Fitness Specialist

FROM COUCH POTATOES TO RUNNERS...

Chee Yee Law - Bandar Utama

Yes we hear you... Of course we do. It took longer than expected but the running vest is finally out! With most of the Chief's Original Bootcamp recruits turning from couch potatoes into runners, there are so many requests for a running vest to represent our community. The vest was partially designed by recruit themselves (thanks Fei Fei) and New Balance.

Printed in limited supply for mix sizes and sold at a subsidized price, please contact Admin at 017-3795988 or 012-3145665 to order. Admin Farhanah & Admin Rose will be visiting each location with the vest for cash on delivery. Of course there is some discount for WIP members. There is limited supply for each sizes and it is on a first come first serve basis.

You can also get more details from your instructors or get testimony from the Running Vest models at your location. Who are the running vest models? Beside the 3 recruits displayed here? Stay tuned....

THE GRAND CHAMPIONS FOR 8 WEEK CHALLENGE SPRING 2014

Guest Judges which includes the Editors or Men's Fitness & GQ, the Publisher of UltraFitness & Oxygen, and the Directors of BodyScience had concluded their voting for Men's and Women's overall Grand Champions, Malaysia Champion and home training Champion. Well Done Kok Siew Wong on being voted as the Malaysia Champion for 8 Week Chalenge Spring 2014.

2014 SPRING 8 WEEK CHALLENGE FINALISTS

From the 11 Malaysian that was voted into semi-finals in Australia's most talked about program, 2 made it into the Finals. Congratulation Kok Siew Wong from Ampang platoon and Sundera Siringivi from USJ1 Subang Jaya Pre-Dawn platoon.

This year's 8 Weeks to Wow is the best Wow so far. If you view the list of those semi-finalists at HERE, you will know what I mean. The transformation of most participants in just 8 weeks was jaw dropping. Always be guided by the results when choosing the best program for your health, fitness and physique. Choose the Chief's Original Bootcamp, click www.cobc.biz for more information. 

Results speaks louder than words.

8 Weeks To Wow: Result speaks louder than words at the Chief's Original Bootcamp.

Needless to say, results speaks louder than words. Every year for the past 4 years, the Chief's Original Bootcamp Malaysia, the only licensee for the world's oldest military-inspired bootcamp program in Malaysia, together with its licensor, the ORIGINAL BOOTCAMP AUSTRALIA, organizes the 8 Weeks to Wow challenge twice a year in February and October for 8 weeks. The 8 Week program challenges individuals to get the best and the most optimum result in just 8 weeks.

Below are just some of the 8 weeks result which is self-explanatory. This year, more than 100 recruits from Malaysia participated in the 8 week challenge and while their own grand prize is the new physique, self confidence and new look, there is also a bonus to those that is voted into the finals and overall Grand Champion. Scroll down for the list of Malaysians that was voted into Semi-Finals. Voting was done online by the public. (Click on picture to enlarge)

2014 8 WEEKS CHALLENGE- SUPPLEMENTS FOR OPTIMUM RESULT

Choosing the right supplement to optimize the result from our sweat pouring workout can be a pain and at time, with an adverse effect. Instead of gaining muscle mass, we can also gained unnecessary fat. Fortunate for us, the 8 Weeks program at the Chief's Original Bootcamp had researched the contents and ingredients for a list of supplement that will maximise lean muscle mass, improve health and at the same time, burn those unwanted stored fat. Personally, having a whole list of perks of being me with diabetic, high cholestrol etc... choosing the best supplement is alot harder. 

The recommended supplements by our principal Chief & Gunny in Australia are those from the BSC range of supplements (which is not available in Malaysia) viewable by members only at HERE. We have search and found an equivalent if not better content of supplements and much reasonably priced. The list of supplements that is equivalent to those recommended for the 8 Week Challenge are available at the Chief's Original Bootcamp, Malaysia. You can view them at HERE or contact any of your instructors or email admin@bootcampmalaysia.com for more information. 

The following are supplements available for immediate purchase.

COUNTDOWN TO BOOTCAMP FANCY DRESS PARTY!!

The Chief's Original Bootcamp is throwing a Fancy Dress Party on 23 August 2014, 730pm at the Chef & Brew, Damansara Heights. The theme for this party is Fancy Dress costume!! The party is organized to foster a better spirit of camaraderie among fellow recruits, instructors, admin and owners of the Chief's Original Bootcamp Malaysia and also to celebrate the amazing results achieved by recruits as well as strengthened the community of fitness enthusiasts.

Please check that you have replied at: https://www.facebook.com/events/272631082942830/ If your name is not in the list, maybe you are not in the admin's friend's list. No problem, please contact your Platoon Commander or instructors to invite you to the event page. Everyone and their family members are invited.

Price? Pay for your own food order. Its Ala Carte beside that, there is no other charges.
Time? 7pm
Date? 23 August 2014
Venue: The Chef & Brew, 1 Jalan Medan Setia 1, Bukit Damansara, 50490 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur.

Location Map (click on picture):

After a long hard thinking and a long hard googling, we decided to try out some costume in Hartamas and after dozens of try-outs with pictures at the bottom, we finally are able to find one just for the occasion!

If you have not rented or bought your costume, please do so before Saturday. Make sure you are dressed to kill!!  Be stylo and be different!!! Time to camwhore and stand a chance to win prizes.

GET YOUR DREAM PHYSIQUE IN JUST 8 WEEKS FOR ONLY A FEW HUNDRED RINGGIT

Did you know that you can completely change your body in just 8 weeks? 

Yes, it is true!! You can change your body through a better lifestyle. You can own your dream body and health by just changing your lifestyle. You can boost your confidence with a head turning, jaw dropping body. You will discover a hidden energy that you never knew you had.

Did you know that it will only cost you a few hundred ringgit to change your life?

Yes, that is right!!! Forget the thousands of Ringgit spent undergoing unnecessary liposuctions, thousands of Ringgit for personal trainers, thousands of Ringgit at slimming centres etc etc... DO NOT spend thousands of Ringgit for you to look good. You do not need to.

It will only cost you from as little as RM500.00 for 8 weeks inclusive of the 8 Week Challenge (8WC) fees (AUD$49.00) paid online if you purchase the Groupon Voucher for the 1 month at only RM49.00 at HERE. If you buy from Groupon, you will need to subscribe to another month from any of the listed promotion fees at HERE (for the 8WC- the Virgin promotion is not applicable). You must register for 2 months (or 8 weeks) to participate in the challenge.

Note: Groupon is only applicable for first time recruit and/or recruits that have not been training with Chief's Original Bootcamp for more than a year.

SPRING 2014 8 WEEKS CHALLENGE

The Chief's Original Bootcamp, Malaysia September Military Corporation (pronounced as "Military Kor") intake is open for registration. 

If you are interested to participate in the forthcoming 8 Weeks Challenge which began with September intake, please register and pay for both September and October at http://www.cobc.biz/#!training-schedule/c72u and register your interest for the 8 Weeks Challenge at www.8WeeksToWow.com.au. 

A note to recruits that had purchased the Groupon Voucher: 

a) The Groupon voucher can be used as payment for September but you will need to enroll and pay for October to participate in the 8 Weeks Challenge. For best promotion, click http://www.cobc.biz/#!cobc-fees-/c1xu1. Groupon recruit can subscribe to all promotion listed except for Virgin promotion.

b) The Groupon voucher is only valid for first time registration (recruit that had never participate in the monthly Chief's Original Bootcamp training) but we are pleased to extend the Groupon promotion to recruit that had stopped working out with the Chief's Original Bootcamp (COBC) for more than a year.

The registration for the 8 Weeks Challenge will be open on 23 August 2014 and it is best for you to register your interest now so you will receive all the updates. 

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR CHIEF'S BOOTCAMPERS

SPECIAL NOTICE for Chief's Bootcampers:

Ramadhan buffet will end together with the holy month of Ramadhan in just two days but the BOOTCAMP BUFFET - unlimited  training for MC12! (Train as much as you want - at any COBC platoons conditional upon the total maximum number of recruits per platoon; which vary from one platoon to another) that was launched 2 years ago, will continue for another 3 months and will end after the October intake. Meaning, from November intake onwards, only the WIP subscribers are allowed an unlimited training sessions at all platoon under the bootcamp buffet. All other enrollment are only restricted to the 12 sessions at their registered platoon. For non-WIP recruits participating in special activities such as marathons, ultra-marathons, trail marathons, ironman triathlon, COBC will sponsor a Bootcamp-Buffet privilege as a support to our recruits.

SPRING 2014 Eight Weeks Challenge (8WC) will begin on 1st September 2014 and ends together with October intake on 25 October 2014 (Please diarise). Which also means you can still do Bootcamp-Buffet during the 8WC for optimum result.

BOOTCAMP FANCY DRESS PARTY is confirmed on 23 August 2014 and an official announcement will be made soon.
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BOOTCAMP IFTAR

Ramadhan is coming to an end in a few days and to end this period of fasting for the muslims, the bootcampers from all platoons gathered at my house for a long overdue gathering. This fostering of comradeship moment brought us all back into memory lane when we were all still fluffy and heavy to where we are all at now!! I had a great moment, listening to Penny, Marie and Sui Lynn journey with COBC and enjoyed getting updates from recruits from all over. There were more than 40 pax that brought variety of food for the pot luck iftar.

The invitations for the pot luck were sent by Afiza Abdul Halin. Guests that rsvp'ed were only less than 30 but not all recruits are tuned to Facebook invites. All instructors except for Affiq and James whom had prior engagements, came including the tall and handsome korean look-alike (as they say) Sarge Chun. Unfortunately, Staff Sarge Nawal was in Sydney for bootcamp training with Chief and could not be there for the iftar. Those that never tried, had their first taste of Corporal Amir's famous lasagna. I finished almost half of it and wanted more before everything was clean sweep. With almost 50 recruits from all over, I am always amazed at the spirit of camaraderie among fellow bootcampers... a true reflection of Malaysians.

NO MORE CODENAMES BUT 'TIME-OF-THE-DAY'

The Chief's Original Bootcamp, Malaysia intake for May to August is now open for registration with some improvements, namely the time-of-the-day instead of a codename for training time & day. This is to make it easier for recruits to relate and understand as well as avoid confusions.

Current codename for training time and days:

5:45am-6:45am : Alpha (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) MC12
5:45am-6:45am : Sierra (Monday, Wednesday) MC8
5:30am-6:30am : Charlie (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday) MC12
5:45am-6:45am : Tango (Monday, Wednesday) MC8
7:00am-8:00am : Bravo (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) MC12
7:00am-8:00am : Oscar (Monday, Wednesday) MC8
7:00am-8:00am : Echo (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday) MC12
7:00am-8:00am : Foxtrot (Monday, Wednesday)

6:45pm-7:45pm : Zulu (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) MC12
6:45pm-7:45pm : Victor (Monday, Wednesday) MC8
8:30pm-9:30pm : Dusks (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) MC12
8:30pm-9:30pm : Quebec (Monday, Wednesday) MC8

VOTING FOR THE CHIEF'S SPIRIT OF BOOTCAMP

Spirit of Bootcamp Certificate is awarded to the most inspiring recruit voted by your own comrade 

The Spirit of Bootcamp

It is time to vote for the Spirit of Bootcamp for your platoon!!! What is the Spirit of Bootcamp? The Spirit of Bootcamp (SOB) is awarded to somebody in your platoon that does not just inspire you, but motivates you to push yourself that little bit harder, somebody that makes your sessions more enjoyable and someone that is aspiring to you. It doesn’t even have to be somebody you know (but it must be someone in your platoon). It can be somebody that you have never spoken too, but you noticed him/her as encouraging, humorous and/or helpful.

You determine who motivate you the most.. and you award them with the "The Spirit of Bootcamp" by voting online for him/her. This is our culture, this is the Spirit of Bootcamp!!

The recipient of the award will receive a certificate as per the sample above.