COACHES, trainers, instructors and Physical Education teachers are being invited to a three-day workshop aimed specifically at the strength and conditioning of youth as well as senior national athletes.The Strength and Conditioning training workshop, a collaborative effort of the National Sports Commission’s (NSC) 50 Shades of Games Initiative, Guyana Olympics Association, B.E. Fitness & Tower Hotel Suites Gym, Banks DIH and Extra Energy, was officially launched on Wednesday morning.
The workshop, set for April 1-3, will feature United States-based Dr. Kyle Pierce from the Department of Kinesiology and Health Science at One University Place in Jackson, as the lead facilitator.
With registration set to close on Monday, March 21, president of the Guyana Amateur Weight-lifting Association, Seon Erskine, has urged those interested to get on board.
During the launch at B.E. Fitness & Tower Hotel Suites Gym, Erskine outlined the plans for the three-day workshop.
“This is not weightlifting specific but strength and conditioning is for every single trainer out there who is working with Guyanese athletes to benefit from contemporary principles that relate to biomechanics, physics anatomy therapy and even in first aid,” contended the president.
He added that there will be specific focus on Anti-doping and its rules as well as injury rehabilitation, among other things, with a view to making the event an annual one under its own body with its own accreditation.
Meanwhile, Fitness & Tower Hotel Suites Gym representative Tyson English expressed his company’s sentiments at being on board for the weekend programme, adding, “We also believe that our coaches, trainers and instructors should be qualified, certified and exposed to a certain level of training and materials.”
GOA representative Dion Nurse extended the GOA’s sentiments about educating coaches, instructors and physical education teachers, while saying that they are in support of programmes of this nature.
The programme is open to all physical education teachers, gym instructors, personal trainers and coaches.