It was boredom that began Mel P. Tiglao’s fitness journey.
“I had classes that started at 4 p.m. and there wasn’t much to do before that,” she said. “We had a gym at the university, so my friend and I joined. We really had no idea what to do back then.”
That started what the 43-year-old store manager calls her on-and-off relationship with the gym.
In 2011, she joined Fitness First and focused on learning proper swimming form. “My assigned trainer, Coach Ace, was a swimmer, and the branch in RCBC had an indoor pool. I wanted to keep up with my growing boys who I also enrolled in swimming classes in their school. I also didn’t want to be mistaken as a pregnant woman because of…
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