NSC to open gym for staff and public

By Morissa Lindsay

The National Sports Council (NSC) is in the process of opening its newly refurbished gym located at the Garfield Sobers Complex . It is expected to officially open in September, said Dave Williams who is tasked with
daily operations.

A personal trainer for the past 15 years, Williams said that the NSC gym has been opened for the past few weeks and has been useful for staff members but will be opened to the public in a month’s time.

“This gym in my opinion is a good idea and it comes in very useful for the staff members but I think in September it will be open to the public,” William explained.

He also shared that a national gym is extremely useful to the national development of athletes.

“I think this is great for the public because the last few years we have been having problems with chronic diseases with diabetes and certain heart problems. So, if Barbados could put together some of the gyms around the island to get people active and mobile I think is a great idea.”

He added: “For the last few weeks there are some guys from the tennis court coming across to have a few sessions in the afternoon but mostly on mornings and evenings it is operated by the Gymnasium staff. We got the staff members coming in and doing their workouts but it is not really opened for the fitness trainers to come in and participate in training as yet.”

As it stands Williams and his team have been working over the past few weeks with the young campers who and are aspiring to get fitter during their summer vacation.

As he shared some of the daily routines they go through at the NSC gym, Williams explained: “I have become the head coach for the fitness and bodybuilding, so what we do on mornings is come and start the camp at nine o’clock. So, we do that for two hours which also includes body resistance, body parts where we do legs on one day, chest the next along with shoulders and back.

Then later in the afternoon we have lunch, then we come back from lunch where the food is digested and then we do some physical. The kids they like a lot of dodge balls which we play and that is great because it allows you to be mobile and fit.”

morissalindsay@barbadostoday.bb