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Cornwall Multisport Club Profile: Joe McNamara:
Solution For One, Solution For Many
By Derrick LoRusso
For some athletes, the challenge
they seek is within themselves, a
desire to see how far they can push
and how much they can achieve.
For others however, their effort
to achieve their personal goals also
benefits other athletes as well. Such
is the case for Joe McNamara.
Since he was a young boy, Joe
McNamara has been around bicycles,
first learning to ride in his hometown
of Brockville. “As a kid, I always
had a bike,” says McNamara, “and
would explore the neighbourhood
and trails in the woods for fun on my
BMX.”
It wasn’t until he got older, when
he joined a cycling club in town,
that he really became interested in
competitive biking, but that wasn’t
his only interest. “I tried my first
triathlon in 1987, and quickly found
out that swimming was not my thing,”
he said, “so I decided to only do road
racing and a bit later, mountain bike
racing.”
That same year, McNamara bought
an indoor workout trainer, only to
discover it was more of a labour-
intensive ride than a proper workout.
“A 30-minute workout seemed like For Joe McNamara, the development of a workout software utility for
an eternity,” he says, “but would cyclist was something he did for himself, but which now benefits many.
tough it out without really any goals
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or focus.” In 2003, he got himself
another indoor trainer, but his hopes
of something different were quickly
trashed. Something had to change,
and the idea of Turbo Crank was
born.
Everyone has an inspirational
person that keeps them going,
someone who encourages them to go
for their goals. For McNamara, this
inspiration wasn’t a who, but rather
a what. “I was taking the classes at
the local gym. I would bring my bike
every Tuesday and Thursday in the
winter, setting it up and doing the
class, then putting everything back in
the car to take it home,” he says. “It
was quite a hassle.”
This inspiration/motivation was
the jumpstart that helped plan the
initial stages of Turbo Crank, “I
loved the workouts, but did not like
all the transport to do them. So what
I wanted was an instructor (the Turbo
Crank program) for my home.”
Over one weekend, McNamara was
able to create the bare-bones version
of his program. “In a couple of weeks
I had a functioning workout and tested
it with some friends. It did exactly
what I wanted but still needed a lot
of work.” McNamara discovered that
his time spent in the gym working out
was really time well spent, as he had
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