Trimac Coaching for Triathlon Launched
When triathlon started in the country,
many scoffed that it’s just a fad and only a rich man thing. But through the
years, triathlon has caught a lot of people’s attention and those who have
tried it are now proponents of this sport.
Triathlon is not an easy sport; it is a
sport where your endurance and versatility will be tested. You will be running
with the clock as you complete the course of swimming, cycling and running with
the fastest time possible. Not that easy, right? So you need to be prepared as well as
trained. Trimac Coaching can assist you on this.
One of the country’s top triathlon
coaches, Jojo Macalintal, will launch a curriculum for beginner, intermediate
and advance triathletes in a bid to complement the country’s campaign to send
Filipino triathletes to future Olympic Games.
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| Coach Jojo Macalintal (Photo by Leomy) |
There will be a three-month program for
each category where participants are prepared according to their fitness
levels, Macalintal, owner and founder of Trimac Coaching, announced during the
launch of the program at Earth Kitchen in Bonifacio Global City on Friday.
The program begins on April 4 at the AS
parking lot in at the University of the Philippines Diliman in Quezon City.
Popularly known in the triathlon
community as Coach Jomac, Macalintal has 18 years of experience in triathlon
coaching and competition. Coach Jomac has been in every nook and cranny of the
sport as competitor, coach and oprganizer.
‘‘As local triathlon grows, Trimac
would like to extend its knowledge to help provide solid basic skills and hone
talents,’’ Macalintal said during the press launch. Macalintal has coached
scores of triathletes in all levels and ages -- from beginners to elite and
national athletes and from youngsters to seniors.
The program can accommodate affiliated
and non-affiliated triathletes who wish to improve. Assisted by a pool of
coaches, Macalintal will not only train beginners and turn them into
triathletes; he will also train triathletes to be more competitive.
‘‘Anyone can be a triathlete. Kids,
students, housewives and mothers, and office workers and even whole families
who aim just to be physically fit can swim, bike and run any distance, from
sprints and mini-sprints to Olympic and Ironman distances under a good
triathlon coach with a good program,''Macalintal said.
If they wish to, trainees may qualify
as members of Team Trimac, one of the oldest and most active triathlon teams in
the country.
Macalintal is certified as coach by the
International Triathlon Union (ITU) and was selected Coach of the Year twice,
in 2011 and 2012, by the swimbikerun.ph, the country’s most popular
multisport website. His team Trimac was Triathlon Team of the Year in 2011 and
his program continues to churn out top-level age-group and elite and youth
triathletes.
Also a certified spinning and TRX
instructor, Macalintal also turned promising youths into national pool
triathletes under the pioneering Trimac Kids program. Currently, he overseas
the grassroots Batang Tri program, which trains poor but promising youths under
the sponsorship of Seafood Island with the support of other sponsors like
Brooks Running.
Trimac Coaching hopes to help a lot of
newcomers at the sport with this program. After observing the impressive
performances of youngsters in the IronKids part of the recent Century Tuna
Ironman 70.3 Triathlon in Subic last weekend, Macalintal said it won’t be long
before the country’s ever-growing triathlon community will produce a competitor
who will compete in the Olympic Games.
Interested applicants can contact
us through 09158947693 or at 09778236529 or drop a message to Coach Jojo
Macalintal at Facebook.
Corporate supporters of the program are
Brooks, TYR, Gu Gels, Apotheca, KLEAN and Unilab Active Health.
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