The Sports Development Department of the Ministry of Sports will conduct a three-day Physical Fitness Training workshop at the Sports Ministry today commencing at 2 pm.
The workshop is for over 30 sports officers with the objective of upgrading knowledge on physical fitness training.
The Sports Development Department 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 lectures will be conducted by the Director General of the Sports Medical Unit, Dr. Lal Ekanayake, the National Athletics coach Y.K. Kularatne and course coordinator Jayantha Siyamudali.
The workshop is about methods of physical fitness testing, how to improve physical fitness and how to prepare fitness training programmes which are most important areas for upgrading knowledge (DR)