Kaizen Dela Serna’s sporting talents aren’t confined to a single skill. To excel in obstacle course racing, one needs upper body strength, coordination, flexibility, balance, and most of all, the mental fortitude to go beyond your body’s limits. These skills have helped her nab medals at the 2019 and 2023 SEA Games and break records along the way.
In 2022, she achieved the Guinness World Record for the 100-meter obstacle course race. All this, while balancing her life as a student and career as a model on the side. Parallel to how she has trained for different categories in obstacle course racing, what has driven her to excel in different areas of her life is an unbridled passion for sports.
“I think women in sport...
It really makes you confident. It makes you resilient, it makes you fearless. And for me, sports really changed my life,” she says.
Now, she hopes that her journey as an athlete will inspire other women to dream big, too. Her sporting career sets an example of how Filipinas can defy what is expected of them. “Being feminine doesn’t necessarily mean you’re weak or fragile.
A woman can be both feminine and strong,” she affirms. Through sports, she hopes to inspire others to stand up for themselves and dream big. In her obstacle course club called the Ninja Monkeys , she hopes to develop women and the youth at the grassroots level to reach for their goals.
Kaizen knows how difficult it is to be an athlete in a relatively new sport. Winning medals .
