Crunches

The trainees had to lie with their bare backs on the warm sand while doing tummy crunches. Grains of sand stuck to their skins forming patches of peach like an incomplete skin-tight vest. The swim in the sea washed their sandy vests off.

However, some of the simplelooking exercises are the hardest to perform, say trainees. “Like stretching out the hands to the sides and rotating them in small circles. Do a couple of rotations and it feels like your shoulder muscles are being ripped apart.” Hamed Al-Sayyar along with a couple of other captains gave the