Twenty teen girls from various secondary schools will be flexing on October 24 to prove who is the fittest of them all.
This event, the Island Fitness Teen, of which Powerade is the major sponsor, will be held at the Boatyard, Bay Street, and begins at 6 p.m.
The girls will be judged in three categories: fitness routine, question and answer and swimsuit.
Dave Waldron, organiser of the event, said the reason for creating a teen version to the senior Island Fitness competition was to get younger people to become aware of their health, develop healthy lifestyles and to help them become more disciplined.
“Too many of our young people don’t have a clue as to what to do to stay healthy and many of them are associating themselves with the wrong crowd,” he said. “The aim of this competition is to get them thinking about their health. At the end of the competition, these young women would have gained knowledge in weight training, nutrition and would have grown in confidence.
“This is the second year for the teen fitness and the response from schools is better than last year, but I still think we can do better,” said Waldron, referring to notices he sent to all secondary schools to put forward a representative for the event.
“There is concern about the health of our children. Every year the Government spends a substantial amout of money treating people with non-communicable diseases, and these are diseases which can be avoided if we change our lifestyles. This competition presents an opportunity in which teachers and principals can help improve the health of their students.”
Over the past weeks the girls had been hard at work whipping themselves into shape with weights for strength training, and kickboxing, spin and step aerobics for cardiovascular conditioning. Beach training every Sunday was also part of the fitness programme.
