Running the Stairs: How Jason Tan Turns Your Block Into a Gym

Most mornings, Jason Tan is already three flights up before the rest of the building has had its coffee. “People think you need a studio, a rack of weights, a membership,” he laughs. “You don’t. You need a stairwell and forty minutes.”

His HIIT & Run sessions begin in the lobby and end on the roof deck, threading intervals through the very corridors residents pass every day. The format is deliberately low-barrier: no equipment, scalable intensity, and a group small enough that nobody hides at the back.

What keeps people coming back, he says, isn’t the burn — it’s the faces. “You sweat next to your neighbour twice a week, you stop being strangers in a lift. That’s the real result.” For Jason, fitness is just the most honest excuse to build a community.