SMD Weightlifting Club
By Thupten (teacher) Vidya B368 and Migmar B08

Our school weightlifting programme was started on August 22. There are 20 students in each group, all are interested in working out in the gym. Half the students are girls and the others are boys. SMD is providing Horlicks (a vitamin-rich hot drink, sort of like Ovaltine. sb) for the students to increase protein intake. Some of the boys have very muscled physiques. Now these days the students are quite healthy and strong. They are very eager to do exercise, and all the boys want to make big muscles.

  The school Gym Club was put in the butter lamp room, in the corner of one of the academic buildings. (When SMD has ‘droubchens’…prayer festivals, the butter lamp room will be needed, and the Gym Club will be temporarily shut down.) Although the room is small with little equipment, the kids are very interested to learn and do weightlifting. Due to Gym Club, the physical condition of SMD students has become better. The school Gym Club is a medium to improve the health status of SMD kids.

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