First National Medal for Frank Heestermans

Aprendo congratulates Frank Heestermans with his silver medal at the Dutch Championchips Triathlon Olympic Distance Under 23.
Frank joined Aprendo about 5 years ago.  Frank and Aprendo designed a long term development plan. Excellent technique in all diciplines, overall health, efficient and effective training, and social development are the key words in this plan. In that light we are even more delighted that Frank will finish his HBO-study “Sport, Health & Management” in the upcoming month. In the Aprendo philosophy athlete development is more than only developing the athlete.

In the past half year Frank focused on finishing his studies. In training the focus was on improving his mobility in order to be able to improve his swimming technique further. In running the focus was on short distances, 800m to 3.000m. Naturally there is still a lot of progress to be made in these shorter distances. Despite the fact that Frank will start to aim his training at Olympic Distance in approximately 2-3 years, he succeeded in winning a silver medal. Does this say something about Frank’s level or does it say more about the current level in national triathlon? Still Frank and Aprendo will not increase his training load towards ‘traditional’ OD loads but instead stick to our long term plan!