Jogging at Senayan

Jogging is an activity routinely organized by Medical Department in my Company to enhance employee health. Besides jogging, there are numerous sports subsides by Company such as cycling, aerobics, squash, basket ball, tennis, mountain climbing to name a few. As a holder of 2007 Petro Cup championship, Company supports a lot of sports activities.

But last week was a bit extraordinary, nearly 22 people registered to join the jogging activity. Two taxis were hired to mobilize extra participant besides Company mini bus and several employee cars. The previous week, only 5 people went jogging. It might be caused by socialization done by Medical Department at the beginning of the week. The socialization was on anticipation of Heart Attack. One of recommendation to avoid heart attacked is regular exercise. The socialization was done by a specialist doctor from Mitra Hospital. He clearly depicted the hazard and process of heart blockage either to heart or brain that caused stroke. The socialization was extended from one hour duration to two hours due to a lot of question from employee. Most of employee, especially those above 40 has gone to heart surgery to place a ring or performed a bypass. Most of patients are working in fields, that notorious for eating a lot of fatty food and lack exercises.

Similar situation also occurs in field several years back when I still work at field. Shortly after one of my colleagues died due to high cholesterol, many people went exercise in the afternoon. Most of them never exercise before. Some time, we need to be reminded to trigger a healthy habit.

For a diver, a fit body means less fat body. Fit bodies will in turn make diving more enjoyable. Less fat body will require less weight to get negative buoyancy and hence less effort in swimming.

Jogging is regularly done at Senayan Sport Hall. It took me around 30 minutes for hard exercise as I used a programmable private trainer of Polar F11 watch on my wrist. To avoid injury, I perform a warm up lap before hard exercise. After jogging, the medical guy will provide a mixed fresh fruit and free selection of drinks from a food seller at the site (if there is no trantib – or district police that prohibit people selling anything near the Sport Hall). I usually choose Pocari sweat. Then as usual, most of the girls will have pictures taking session while drinking after exhaustedly running. One picture depicting them while jogging was shown above. It was a quite relaxed session and the jogging habit is very good for our health. Many thanks to Medical Department and the team for organizing the event.