PNP launches new fitness program for cops amid pandemic

The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Monday launched a new fitness program to protect the health and wellness of police officers amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Outgoing PNP chief Police General Camilo Pancratius Cascolan said the program is a health-centered scheme called PNP Fitness Interval Time or PNP-FIT.

“This program solely aims to reduce the adverse quarantine effects brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially on our body,” Cascolan said in a press release.

He said the PNP-FIT is consists of one-minute modified physical exercises, or 1MPE, which will be performed daily at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., and four-minute modified physical exercises (4MPE) which will be performed Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3:30 p.m. at any designated area of each office or unit.

Cascolan said the PNP-FIT will be a combination of various stretching exercises and basic movements.

He added that the exercises would accelerate the body's heart rate, jump-start the body's metabolism, improve blood circulation, develop muscle strength, boost endurance, and increase balance and flexibility.

“This new health program is geared towards the promotion of normalization of physical activities of PNP personnel without compromising the health protocols being prescribed by the Inter-Agency Task Force under the new normal,” Cascolan said. — BM, GMA News