"Learn the Basic Weightlifting" seminar today

Close to 50 participants composed of school coaches and private individuals will take part in Cebu Weightlifting Association's "Learn the Basic Weightlifting" seminar to be spearheaded by Olympian Hidilyn Diaz at the Cebu City Sports Center today.

Diaz, who ended the Philippines' 20-year medal drought in the Olympics by winning silver medal in women's weighlifting event two years ago in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, will talk on the fundamentals of the sport.

She will be joined by International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Category 1 licensed referee Jude Sulla, who will take up officiating and technicalities of the sport, and Pio Solon of Epic Fitness and Performance, who will discuss about strength and conditioning application to weightlifting.

The one-day free seminar, which will start from 9am to 5 pm, has attracted weightlifting coaches and athletes from five Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation, Inc. (CESAFI) member schools. These are the University of Cebu, University of San Carlos, University of San JoseRecoletos, University of the Visayas and University of Southern Philippines Foundation.

Philippine Sports Commissioner Ramon Fernandez and CWA President Felix "Boy" O. Tiukinhoy, Jr. are expected to grace the affair that culminate with a demonstration. —

Gloreitta T. Lariosa