Skip to playerSkip to main content
CCNTV6
  • 2 months ago
Come tomorrow, the Trinidad and Tobago Table Tennis Federation in collaboration with Fitness Instructor Brent Elder will be hosting their Fitness Fiesta at the National Racquet Center. The objective of the initiative is to help raise funds for athletes and to create awareness about proper training methods. Elder believes it will go a long way in raising the performance of athletes in T&T.
Transcript
00:00Just how many push-ups can you do in one go?
00:03Well, fitness instructor Brent Elder made just to test your ability when he hosts a fitness fiesta tomorrow at the National Racket Center.
00:10He is doing it in collaboration with the Trinidad and Tobago Table Tennis Association.
00:15We need to reset fitness, like I keep telling people, from all the years of our sport, if you get fitness wrong, you will get sport wrong.
00:23Because when you see some of our athletes perform, you see some foundation stuff that would have been missing.
00:30And sometimes in the midst of the battle, you try to correct it or let them know about it.
00:35You know, you're trying to correct it, you say, hey, you know, this and this.
00:37And then you realize, look, hey, fitness, certain things needed to be done and just be done naturally.
00:44Apart from educating the public on how to properly execute a warm-up and other training methods,
00:49he says the event is also being used as a fundraiser for athletes with the cost of registration being $100.
00:55Plus, it's to get some funds for our athletes as well.
01:02Because working with teams and athletes over the years, sometimes they have their official budget.
01:07So for athletes, an event must spring up on an athlete.
01:11And it might be important for qualification, whether it be for Olympic qualification or points or standing or ranking.
01:17He's hoping individuals of all ages turn up, especially men.
01:20And I'm hoping that the men, I really want to challenge men in Trinidad and Tobago.
01:26Men, as the local saying goes, men not menning.
01:30So I'm going to show men that morning just how much more we need to do as men, the older adults and over the years.
01:39So you have done a lot with sports.
01:41I've seen you have lost a lot of school children to diabetes and heartache.
01:45So there's plenty going on behind the scenes in that one workout.
01:50The event runs from 7 a.m. to midday.
01:52Sergio Dufour, TV6 Board.
03:15.
03:45.
Be the first to comment
Add your comment