Department of Sports Development to conduct Physical Fitness workshop

The Department of Sports Development (DoSD) of the Ministry of Sports will conduct a three-day Physical Fitness Training workshop for over 30 sports officers with the objective of upgrading knowledge on physical fitness training.

The DoSD has over 147 sports officers and coaches working at district level. Of them one official selected from each district and one officer representing each Province will attend the workshop.

“The workshop is about methods of physical fitness testing, how to improve physical fitness and how to prepare fitness training programmes,” said course coordinator Jayantha Siyamudali.

The workshop will be conducted at the Sports Ministry’s Torrington facilities and will commence at 2pm on Sunday (6).

The lectures will be conducted by the new Director of the Sports Medical Unit, Dr. Lal Ekanayake, the National Athletics coach Y.K. Kularatne and course coordinator Jayantha Siyamudali.