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Leading Physical Training Instructor (LPTI) ‘Daz’ Hoare is the Royal Navy’s PTI of the Year and he has been presented with the award by CBF, Commodore Adrian Bell.
The nomination for the award came from the Captain of HMS Lancaster on which Daz served prior to his posting to Gibraltar. In an 18 month period, HMS Lancaster spent 15 months at sea on active operations.
During that time, Daz introduced a software package which kept records of each participant’s level of fitness, including such data as body fat readings and peak flow measurements. This data allowed Daz to compile an individual fitness and nutrition programme for each person. HMS Lancaster was the first Royal Navy ship to introduce such a detailed Fitness Assessment package.
As well as the usual football cricket and netball teams, Daz also encouraged the ship’s company to enter a team in the prestigious Dubai Rugby Sevens competition and, whilst the ship was in Gibraltar, nearly seventy members of the ship’s company ran up the Rock in a record-winning time for the fleet.
‘I’m pretty certain that HMS Lancaster had the fittest ship’s company in the fleet,’ said Daz. ‘But I did get the support of everybody on board. It was just that we all went just one step further in everything we did.’
The nomination also makes mention of Daz’s achievement in gaining for the ship a National Boxing award and being the first ship to gain the Football Association’s Charter Award.
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