Dear Busi­ness Partners,
„How much of your total turnover in per­cent do you usu­al­ly gen­er­ate through jew­ellery pre­sen­ta­tions at hosts‘ homes?“

Please click the link to answer this excit­ing ques­tion (anony­mous­ly) by 22 July 2014.

We’ll be pre­sent­ing the result on FROGBLOG.

Thank you for tak­ing part!

Your ENERGETIX Bin­gen team

The time had come again in May for STARCLUB mem­bers from five dif­fer­ent coun­tries in Europe to come togeth­er for a live­ly event where they could enjoy pre­sen­ta­tions, swap expe­ri­ences and join in the fun of team-build­ing activ­i­ties on water.

Suc­cess­ful combination
The event in Mainz gave the inter­na­tion­al stars the oppor­tu­ni­ty to pro­vide feed­back and make their own con­crete con­tri­bu­tions to com­pa­ny devel­op­ments as well as to have fun by tak­ing to the water dur­ing the out­door phys­i­cal activ­i­ties on the Riv­er Rhine. And it nat­u­ral­ly goes with­out say­ing that the get-togeth­er also rep­re­sent­ed an oppor­tu­ni­ty to hon­our the best!

Impres­sive video
We have com­piled the high­lights of the event in a short film. You’ll find it and many oth­er films by and about ENERGETIX on ENERGETIX’s YouTube chan­nel.

The new busi­ness part­ners took the oppor­tu­ni­ty to see ENER­GETIX’s cur­rent jew­ellery col­lec­tion at the new offices.

ENERGETIX Turkey is con­tin­u­ing its sto­ry of suc­cess and held an open day in Istan­bul on 31 May 2014.

Over 30 busi­ness part­ners and inter­est­ed par­ties accept­ed the invi­ta­tion to take the oppor­tu­ni­ty to gain a more detailed impres­sion of ENERGETIX, its prod­ucts and its busi­ness idea. The response to the train­ing pro­vid­ed at ENERGETIX Turkey’s own train­ing room was also great – so it could be said that the meet­ing was an all-round success!

Tol­ga Delik­taş, Branch Man­ag­er (right), with busi­ness partners

The event took place in the com­pa­ny’s new head­quar­ters, because as a result of the very pleas­ing rapid devel­op­ments at ENERGETIX Turkey, the com­pa­ny has already had to move to new and larg­er premis­es, which also include a sep­a­rate train­ing room (which busi­ness part­ners are able to use). 

We wish the branch man­ag­er, Tol­ga Delik­taş, and his team con­tin­ued success!

Cycling, sportEX and char­i­ty: sim­ply the per­fect match. A fact that has been demon­strat­ed twice again by ENERGETIX busi­ness part­ners from both the Nether­lands and Ger­many: Den­nis Jansen and a team led by Brit­ta Hartmann.

Den­nis Jansen
On 6 May 2014, our busi­ness part­ner in the Nether­lands, Den­nis Jansen, impres­sive­ly suc­ceed­ed in his phys­i­cal­ly demand­ing attempt to cycle up Mont Ven­toux three times in suc­ces­sion on his rac­ing bike. This 1911-metre high moun­tain is locat­ed in the Provence in France and has not only been incor­po­rat­ed into the Tour de France sev­er­al times – it is also infa­mous for being real­ly dif­fi­cult to con­quer! This ambi­tious event – the „Cinglé du Mont Ven­toux“ – of which Den­nis Jansen is an offi­cial club mem­ber is only some­thing for endurance experts who are absolute­ly in top form. So it was right up Den­nis Jansen’s street!

Accom­pa­ny­ing Den­nis Jansen up the moun­tain: sportEX bracelets!

But the event did­n’t only rep­re­sent a phys­i­cal chal­lenge: Den­nis Jansen decid­ed to donate one euro for every sale of a sportEX arti­cle (bracelet or neck­lace) to the „Spieren voor Spieren“ foun­da­tion („Mus­cles for Mus­cles“), which active­ly sup­ports chil­dren suf­fer­ing from mus­cle disease.

By set­ting a good exam­ple, Den­nis Jansen hopes his efforts will moti­vate oth­er ENERGETIX busi­ness part­ners to also do good!

Brit­ta Hart­mann and Team
Brit­ta Hart­mann, who is an ENERGETIX busi­ness part­ner, along with a ded­i­cat­ed team of fam­i­ly mem­bers, oth­er ENERGETIX busi­ness part­ners and cus­tomers joined the „24h Ener­gy Ride“, which took place on 25 May 2014. The event was held to break a world record and help a good cause.

The task was to gen­er­ate so much ener­gy through indoor cycling over 24 hours that it would be pos­si­ble to dri­ve an elec­tri­cal­ly-pow­ered car over a dis­tance of 50 kilo­me­tres. Thanks to the teams‘ high-octane lev­els, the car was able to trav­el more than twice that dis­tance: 105.6 kilometres!

A total of 1800 par­tic­i­pants in 60 teams joined in to give their every­thing on 120 indoor bicy­cles. One of which was kept going for 24 hours by the ENERGETIX team. With suc­cess: the world record was bro­ken and an entry in the Guin­ness Book of Records guar­an­teed. So an ENERGETIX sportEX team helped achieve a world record. All cyclists involved may be jus­ti­fi­ably proud of their performances!

Funds from the event are to be donat­ed to the Löwen­herz chil­dren’s hos­pice in Synke near Bremen.

„It’s par­tic­u­lar­ly impor­tant to me that, when I asked my col­leagues over Face­book to donate, so many respond­ed spon­ta­neous­ly and con­tributed with their dona­tions that we were able to reserve a bicy­cle for ENERGETIX and cycle for a good cause. I was total­ly over­whelmed and for me it was an absolute­ly clear sign that ENER­GETIX’s busi­ness part­ners and ENERGETIX itself stand for human­i­ty and that we stand togeth­er for each oth­er and for a good cause.“ (Brit­ta Hartmann)

We con­grat­u­late both Den­nis Jansen and Brit­ta Hart­mann as well as her team on their impres­sive phys­i­cal suc­cess­es and thank them for their remark­able ded­i­ca­tion to social causes!

On 12 June the ENERGETIX Head Office in Bin­gen am Rhein received a vis­it from a politi­cian well-known through­out Ger­many, Julia Klöck­n­er (Deputy Fed­er­al Chair­woman of the CDU). She was accom­pa­nied by the may­or of Bin­gen, Thomas Feser.

Own­er and CEO Roland Förster and COO Klaus-Peter Thiel gave the very inter­est­ed politi­cian a com­pre­hen­sive insight into the com­pa­ny’s depart­ments and its work­ing prac­tices. Mrs. Klöck­n­er was extreme­ly enthu­si­as­tic about the mag­net­ic jew­ellery cre­ations she was shown and about the logis­tics and cus­tomer sup­port ser­vices and the var­i­ous areas of activ­i­ty of the mar­ket­ing department.

The top politi­cian’s unbri­dled curios­i­ty in the ENERGETIX suc­cess sto­ry was also evi­dent dur­ing the sub­se­quent dis­cus­sion with ENERGETIX staff – in which she active­ly involved all the par­tic­i­pants. Mrs. Klöck­n­er showed her­self very open to sug­ges­tions and praised the Bin­gen fir­m’s mul­ti­cul­tur­al openness.

Just under 80 senior cit­i­zens from Bin­gen vis­it­ed ENERGETIX on Tues­day 10 June. The tour of the com­pa­ny’s dif­fer­ent depart­ments – orga­nized as part of the 20th Bin­gen am Rhein Senior Cit­i­zen Days (a series of events orga­nized by the town’s Senior Cit­i­zens Advi­so­ry Com­mit­tee) was of great inter­est to both the male and female par­tic­i­pants. The var­i­ous jew­ellery cre­ations and well­ness prod­ucts from the House of ENERGETIX, in par­tic­u­lar the high-tech engrav­ing machine, were extreme­ly well received. 

Jean­nette Bal-van Schijndel

The pro­fes­sion­al suc­cess sto­ry of ENERGETIX busi­ness part­ner Jean­nette Bal-van Schi­jn­del even caught the atten­tion of the Busi­ness Boot­camp, an acad­e­my that offers train­ing and coach­ing to sup­port free­lancers and small busi­ness­es on the road to suc­cess. It has now hon­oured the com­mit­ted Dutch­woman by nam­ing her entre­pre­neur of the week.

From sports mas­sage to foot reflex­ol­o­gy mas­sage: Jean­nette Bal-van Schi­jn­del is skilled in a wide range of mas­sage tech­niques and has been run­ning her own mas­sage prac­tice since 2000. Since 2002 she has also been work­ing as an ENERGETIX busi­ness part­ner. And a very suc­cess­ful one, too! She has found ways to com­bine the two activ­i­ties, for exam­ple by offer­ing mas­sages with the ENERGETIX mas­sage tool.

Jean­nette recent­ly demon­strat­ed her abil­i­ties at the Guten­berg Marathon in Mainz. She trav­elled there spe­cial­ly to treat the mem­bers of the ENERGETIX team to a mas­sage after the over 21 kilo­me­tre run.

This year Moth­ers Day was also a very sport­ing day for ENERGETIX. With 140 reg­is­tered run­ners, ENERGETIX had the largest group of com­peti­tors in the mega event. Here you can see a selec­tion of emo­tion­al pho­tos of the 2014 race:

ENERGETIX dis­trib­u­tor Esther Lass­chui­jt and Denise Cohen, both enthu­si­as­tic sportEX fans, joined 444 oth­ers at the Thialf Sta­di­um in Heeren­veen on 28 March 2014 to attempt a world record for the 2014 Guin­ness Book of Records and skate 1,000 metres across ice – not on ice-skates, how­ev­er, but bare­foot and wear­ing sportEX shirts and necklaces!

Led by Wim „The Ice Man“ Hof – this Dutch­man holds 18 inter­na­tion­al records for with­stand­ing freez­ing tem­per­a­tures, includ­ing the one for the longest time spent in an ice bath – the two ladies suc­ceed­ed in their icy chal­lenge! Congratulations!

You’ll be able to read about this achieve­ment in the 2014 Guin­ness Book of Records.

FROGBLOG: Julia, from your expe­ri­ence as a nutri­tion coach, what should run­ners pay atten­tion to on the last few days before the run, imme­di­ate­ly before the run and dur­ing the half marathon itself?

Julia Rit­tner: On the last few days before the race you should have a high car­bo­hy­drate diet. The car­bo­hy­drate reserves can be replen­ished, par­tic­u­lar­ly on the day before the run, but please do so 24 hours before the race itself. I always advise my ath­letes to avoid fibre rich food on the day before the race and eat less veg­eta­bles, let­tuce or nuts, so as to reduce the bur­den on the gas­troin­testi­nal tract and give it less diges­tive work to do.

Fit­ness train­er and nutri­tion coach Julia Rittner

On the morn­ing of the race, an ade­quate amount of car­bo­hy­drates should be eat­en 3 hours before the start – prefer­ably eas­i­ly digestible car­bo­hy­drates and few­er whole ones, accord­ing to expe­ri­ence. I know that dur­ing train­ing each run­ner has already test­ed his or her opti­mum break­fast before a long run. Many swear by soaked rolled oats with hon­ey or toast with hon­ey or jam. An hour or even 30 min­utes before the start, accord­ing to expe­ri­ence, they also eat a small ener­gy bar, a ripe banana or anoth­er small slice of toast and hon­ey. Flu­id intake dur­ing the race is crit­i­cal so they do not wait to feel thirsty but head straight for each refresh­ment sta­tion to take on more flu­id! One thing I strong­ly advise them to test dur­ing train­ing is nutri­tion while run­ning. The gas­troin­testi­nal tract is high­ly sen­si­tive dur­ing stren­u­ous exer­cise and there is some nutri­tion that it does not nec­es­sar­i­ly tol­er­ate. After 60 min­utes the car­bo­hy­drate reserves are emp­ty and a car­bo­hy­drate gel, a bar or a ripe banana, accord­ing to expe­ri­ence, can pro­vide ener­gy for the sec­ond half of the race. But it must always be accom­pa­nied by flu­id intake.

FROGBLOG: Now for appar­el – what kind
of run­ning gear do you advise our run­ners to wear on 11 May in Mainz? What in
par­tic­u­lar do you think they should they keep in mind?

Julia Rit­tner: It is very impor­tant not to start exper­i­ment­ing on race day! The run­ning shoes and all the cloth­ing are famil­iar and have been tried out over a longer run, and the nutri­tion dur­ing the race should hold no sur­pris­es, either. At the start we should feel almost a bit too light­ly dressed, because over-warm clothes can have a dis­turb­ing effect once the body is at run­ning tem­per­a­ture and
there is a risk of over­heat­ing. We will have to wait until race day in Mainz to see what vari­ant is best – we have already found the event equal­ly enjoy­able in inces­sant rain and in blis­ter­ing heat.

FROGBLOG: Per­haps it is more than non-run­ners can com­pre­hend, but can one get hooked on running?

Julia Rit­tner: The body releas­es more Endor­phins dur­ing sport­ing activ­i­ties, so we auto­mat­i­cal­ly receive endoge­nous feel-good hor­mones that nat­u­ral­ly increase our sense of well-being. If the lev­el is high, a state of pseu­do-intox­i­ca­tion can be reached: we are on a vir­tu­al high and total­ly light-head­ed! Then we can eas­i­ly get a bit addict­ed, with the deter­min­ing fac­tor being the dose – if used in mod­er­a­tion, indi­vid­u­al­ly and for health-ori­ent­ed pur­pos­es, move­ment is a Mag­ic bul­let for achiev­ing phys­i­cal and men­tal health!

FROGBLOG: And final­ly, how is your own prepa­ra­tion for the Mainz half marathon going? What goals have you set yourself?

Julia Rit­tner: I am enjoy­ing doing light prepa­ra­tion as part of my reg­u­lar train­ing and on the day itself I will rel­ish every kilo­me­tre, as I did last year, relaxed and hap­py to be part of a
fan­tas­tic team!

Thank you, Julia, for your sug­ges­tions and for your per­son­al impres­sions and experiences.

With con­tin­ued run train­ing and thanks to your advice, the Mainz Marathon is bound to be an event that pleas­es every­one. We hope you con­tin­ue to enjoy your train­ing and wish you lots of fun on 11 May with the ENERGETIX run­ning team!

You can find more infor­ma­tion from and about Julia Rit­tner at www.julia-rittner-sports.de