On Wednesday and Thursday(14-15 May) at Olympic House, Lance Walker the Michael Johnson Performance(MJP) Centre Director of Performance and Drew Cuffee performance coach will deliver a follow up workshop for the 30 coaches from various national sporting disciplines who attended the first Bptt Michael Johnson Performance (MJP)Centre workshop held October last year.
Bptt corporate partner and supporter of the TTOC's Olympic Performance programme established the Michael Johnson Performance coach development workshop to assist the preparation of T&T's Rio 2016 Olympic team.
The focus of the second workshop is to review and evaluate the effectiveness of the respective training programmes instituted by the local high performance and elite level coaches following last year's first workshop .
Local athletes and national teams are in their preparation phase for the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing .
In the build up to Rio 2016 - the Commonwealth , Youth Olympics, CAC and Pan Am Games- are important events along the Olympic pathway.
The objective of MJP workshops is aimed at providing local coaches with practical and innovative high performance insight, information and knowledge into the mental and physical preparation, methods and approaches required in the quest for Olympic and World level success.
Michael Johnson , the four time Olympic champion and winner of nine World championship gold medals founded and established the Michael Johnson Performance centre in 2007.