Many ENERGETIX dis­trib­u­tors already know Julia Rit­tner from the 2013 start-of-year event in Will­in­gen, where the slo­gan was „Fit for the new decade“ and she moti­vat­ed every­one present to greater sport­ing activ­i­ty. Julia will once again pro­vide run­ning sup­port for the ENERGETIX team in 2014. A licensed fit­ness and per­son­al train­er and pas­sion­ate triath­lete, she is mak­ing a moti­vat­ed group of run­ners in Bin­gen fit for the Novo Nordisk Guten­berg Marathon Mainz, for which they have entered. She is also run­ning a week­ly train­ing ses­sion for ENERGETIX staff mem­bers – one that is tai­lored to their wish­es and require­ments – under the slo­gan „Fit through the lunch break“.

A few weeks before the Guten­berg (Half) Marathon we asked Julia for advice that trained long dis­tance run­ners can still fol­low to improve their form and arrive at the start line well pre­pared and in top con­di­tion on 11 May.

FROGBLOG: It’s fan­tas­tic, over 130 peo­ple have reg­is­tered for the ENERGETIX run­ning team in the 2014 Guten­berg Marathon! Julia, you ran in the „frog team“ last year – as did Joey Kel­ly among oth­ers. What mem­o­ries and expec­ta­tions will you have as you go to the start line in Mainz on 11 May? 

Julia Rit­tner: The Mainz Marathon is a region­al event whose major attrac­tions are its friend­ly atmos­phere and a beau­ti­ful route. On every sec­tion the atmos­phere car­ries the run­ners on to the next kilo­me­tre and they are cheered along towards the fin­ish­ing line. As was the case last year, the run­ning expe­ri­ence will cer­tain­ly be marked by the strength of the ENERGETIX team – the large num­ber of entries means that the hap­py excite­ment before the start and the proud feel­ing of relief at the fin­ish will be a great shared event!

FROGBLOG: What can a run­ner who is in train­ing do to opti­mize their form and well-being in the last few weeks before the run?

Julia Rit­tner: It is impor­tant to main­tain an opti­mal bal­ance between tar­get­ed train­ing loads and recov­ery phas­es in the last few weeks before the race. A few more long runs of up to 18 or even 19 km will cer­tain­ly be planned dur­ing this peri­od. At the same time, the expe­ri­enced run­ners are also already in a phase where they are improv­ing their race fit­ness and basic speed with inter­val and tem­po train­ing. All runs and par­tic­u­lar­ly the more inten­sive units should be car­ried out in a relaxed man­ner; and if the body gives any indi­ca­tion that it would be bet­ter to take a rest day, this is what should be done. It is not our „weak­er self“ speak­ing, the body is ask­ing for rest. Ade­quate sleep, a
nat­ur­al and bal­anced diet and reg­u­lar stretch­ing ensure regen­er­a­tion – often „less is more“ in the last few weeks. There are no more major leaps in per­for­mance dur­ing the final month of prepa­ra­tion, but the lev­el of Per­for­mance reached must be maintained.

FROGBLOG: And what is best a few days before the run? Should „non-pro­fes­sion­als“ go easy and save their ener­gy or should they pre­pare their body for the run ahead with gen­tle training?

Julia Rit­tner: The expe­ri­enced run­ners will cer­tain­ly run some addi­tion­al longer dis­tances even dur­ing the week­end before 11 May, where­as new­com­ers to the half marathon dis­tance are best advised to do their last long run two weeks before the race. The last week before the race should be tak­en up with qui­et short­er runs. It all depends on the train­ing con­di­tion, of course, so it is dif­fi­cult to make a gen­er­al state­ment. Usu­al­ly each indi­vid­ual run­ner can feel how much rest is need­ed before race day. Two or three full con­sec­u­tive days of rest are a good idea. Rest is impor­tant, but too much rest before the event leaves the mus­cles real­ly „lame“ and deprives us of the nec­es­sary ten­sion. This is why many run­ners make a point of doing a mini-train­ing ses­sion the day before the race to tone up the mind and the mus­cles – a short 10-minute warm-up run fol­lowed by 3–5 crisp uphill runs and a com­fort­able 10-minute wind-down run.

FROGBLOG: And what of the „weak­er self“? How do you moti­vate your­self and how do you spur on your run­ners? Do you use spe­cial tricks that you’d like to reveal here? 

Julia Rit­tner: If sport is char­ac­ter­ized by enthu­si­asm and enjoy­ment, no spe­cial moti­va­tion is need­ed. The chal­lenge starts when we reach our lim­its while train­ing, are sur­prised by lack of form on the day or have to call on our final reserves of ener­gy in a race. We must then make greater demands on our men­tal strength and call up pow­er­ful images – it can be a won­der­ful run­ning expe­ri­ence or a mag­ic moment in nature, or we see our­selves arriv­ing at the fin­ish­ing line! Dur­ing run train­ing my ath­letes know that I always refer to the nature around us as a force field and a dis­trac­tion. So if I name the
plants around us too often or dis­cov­er the beau­ti­ful view sev­er­al times, I get smiled at – but that’s okay, you run bet­ter if you are laughing! 

Read fur­ther advice from Julia Rit­tner in the next few days.

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

ENER­GETIX’s spring launch was held at the begin­ning of March at the Green Park Hotel in Pendik (Istan­bul) in Turkey. Tol­ga Delik­taş, Head of the Turkey Office, said that all 82 par­tic­i­pants were real­ly enthu­si­as­tic about the 2014 spring / sum­mer col­lec­tion. The Lava and the Mas­cu­line lines were par­tic­u­lar­ly well received by the participants.

Tol­ga Delik­taş, Head of the Turkey Office, with Ser­ife Cig­ili, a suc­cess­ful distributor

Hon­our­ing the best:
pure emo­tion
Ahmet Kocoglu host­ed the excit­ed­ly await­ed event. Besides the pre­sen­ta­tion of the 2014 spring / sum­mer col­lec­tion and the shar­ing of impor­tant com­pa­ny news by Tol­ga Delik­taş, the award cer­e­mo­ny for the top dis­trib­u­tors was one of the even­t’s highlights.
The appre­ci­a­tion that the excel­lent results were being offi­cial­ly hon­oured was clear­ly tangible.

Gül Batir

Ms Gül Batir was the first to be hon­oured in the PSV and GSV cat­e­gories: the ded­i­cat­ed dis­trib­u­tor achieved top results in Feb­ru­ary 2014. Mr Bora Yos­ma also deserves men­tion as an exam­ple of some­one who was par­tic­u­lar­ly suc­cess­ful in build­ing up his team and who has already risen to the posi­tion of Area Manager.

Bora Yos­ma

Proud per­for­mance
ENERGETIX Turkey cur­rent­ly has 850 reg­is­tered dis­trib­u­tors on its books. We con­grat­u­late the Turkey Office on its remark­able per­for­mance and wish it con­tin­ued success.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion required? This link will take you direct­ly to the FROGBLOG arti­cle about the road show at the end of 2013: http://en.frogblog.tv/energetix-in-turkey-the-road-shows/

When Roland Förster and Alexan­der Link accom­pa­nied the group of dis­trib­u­tors on their train­ing trip to Brazil last year, they encoun­tered a project in Sal­vador da Bahia that moved them deeply. The „Creche Béu Macha­do“ in Boca do Rio, a favela on the out­skirts of Sal­vador da Bahia, is a day-care cen­tre that looks after chil­dren from sin­gle par­ent homes who would oth­er­wise have to fend for them­selves on the streets. It is financed exclu­sive­ly from dona­tions. ENERGETIX spon­ta­neous­ly made the deci­sion to include this wor­thy project in its char­i­ty activ­i­ties along with the Hugo Tem­pel­man Foundation.

That’s why the funds that ENERGETIX usu­al­ly puts aside for its Christ­mas gifts to dis­trib­u­tors were in 2013 sent to the aid project in Sal­vador da Bahia. The total donat­ed to the day-care cen­tre cur­rent­ly runs at a mag­nif­i­cent 5,100 euros.

If you also want to help: any dona­tion is great­ly wel­comed by the „Creche Béu Machado“.

Account for donations:
Lateinamerikazen­trum e. V.
Account num­ber: 48004
Spar­da West eG
Bank Code: 370 605 90
IBAN: DE26 3706 0590 0000 0480 04
BIC/SWIFT: GENODED1SPK
Pur­pose: Creche Beu Macha­do, Brasilien (this infor­ma­tion is essential!)

Inde­pen­dent ENERGETIX dis­trib­u­tors Dominique and Roland Strauß are now advis­ing on and sell­ing the ENERGETIX prod­uct line not only at jew­ellery pre­sen­ta­tions, fairs and mar­kets. The com­mit­ted cou­ple also presents the ENERGETIX col­lec­tion in the 50 m² shop they have just opened in the Baden-Würt­tem­berg town of Jestet­ten, Ger­many. Our hearty congratulations!

A par­tic­u­lar­ly prac­ti­cal fea­ture: the premis­es also include an upstairs train­ing room.

Dominique stress­es that they will con­tin­ue to focus on jew­ellery pre­sen­ta­tions but that the shop also offers them the addi­tion­al pos­si­bil­i­ty of show­ing attrac­tive dec­o­ra­tion ideas to new distributors.

The open­ing of the shop was an unqual­i­fied suc­cess and promis­es an aus­pi­cious future, with lots of enthu­si­as­tic cus­tomers and new­com­ers to mag­net­ic jewellery..

„It was AMAZING,“ Dominique said. „We were com­plete­ly run off our feet and did not even have time to talk to every­body indi­vid­u­al­ly.“ (Dominique Strauß)

The sto­ry of ENER­GETIX’s suc­cess in Fin­land start­ed around 10 years ago
with Mar­i­anne Kosta­mo, a mem­ber of the team set up by the Switzerland-based
inde­pen­dent dis­trib­u­tor, Renée Piguet. The third per­son to help busi­ness in
Fin­land is Mer­ja Fer­ahyan, who start­ed work­ing with ENERGETIX in March 2012 and
is today the ded­i­cat­ed con­tact for all dis­trib­u­tors in the coun­try. In con­junc­tion with Mar­i­anne Kosta­mo, she is now respon­si­ble for ENERGETIX in the north of Europe.

Train­ing in Fin­land with Mer­ja Ferahyan

Cos­mopoli­tan Renée Piguet trav­els once or twice a year to Fin­land to sup­port her team there. The most recent impor­tant train­ing ses­sions were held in Espoo/Helsinki, Heino­la and Kuo­pio in Feb­ru­ary 2014. These meet­ings were also high­ly suc­cess­ful: all in all, they were attend­ed by around 30 enthu­si­as­tic men and women.

The response to the new spring / sum­mer col­lec­tion was over­whelm­ing. Every­one just want­ed to hold the pieces, said Renée Piguet. A very good sign which was expres­sive of the eager­ness with which the par­tic­i­pants had been wait­ing to see and feel the qual­i­ty of the new creations.

Mer­ja Fer­ahyan with Renée Piguet

Mer­ja Fer­ahyan used a very infor­ma­tive Pow­er­Point pre­sen­ta­tion, which
was very well received by all, to explain the new col­lec­tion. With her special
train­ing, Renée Piguet was able to spur on the par­tic­i­pants and even boost
their moti­va­tion – and that in a relaxed atmos­phere accom­pa­nied by a light
lunch.

The dynam­ic ladies are plan­ning to focus even more on the spe­cial wish­es and needs of the peo­ple in Fin­land and to orga­nize more train­ing ses­sions for them because „Fin­land is big“. On-line train­ing ses­sions in Finnish are also to follow.

Dr. Clau­dia Bregulla-Linke

Joey Kel­ly, who’s famous for his feats of extreme sports, swears by sportEX – but he’s no excep­tion. Many peo­ple who enjoy lots of sports have become fans. The best exam­ple: Dr Clau­dia Bregulla-Linke.

Clau­dia is a suc­cess­ful mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary ath­lete and triath­lete from Utting am Ammersee in Bavaria (she’s respon­si­ble for train­ing new sports teach­ers at the Staatsin­sti­tut Augs­burg) and has – besides many types of win­ter and water sports – pri­mar­i­ly ded­i­cat­ed her­self to swim­ming, run­ning and cycling (which is her best dis­ci­pline). The moth­er of three (born in 1967) is very suc­cess­ful – for exam­ple, she won the Ger­man Mid­dle-Dis­tance Triathlon Cham­pi­onship in 2012. And she wears sportEX bracelets!

We wish Clau­dia con­tin­ued suc­cess in all her disciplines!

A few days ago the Camp David Expe­di­tion set off for Cape Horn in two teams. The expe­di­tion mem­bers include our endurance ace and sportEX fan Joey Kelly!

Joey, who is just back from the Thai jun­gle, is now off on a South Amer­i­can tour with his 10-man group of adven­tur­ers, who were picked from 2000 appli­cants. The start­ing point for both teams was Pun­ta Are­nas (in Chile), the south­ern­most big city in the world. The Green Team led by Joey Kel­ly is tak­ing the over­land route while the Blue Team is trav­el­ling by water. Their com­mon des­ti­na­tion: Puer­to Navarino.

10 days, 2 teams. With 18 par­tic­i­pants in all (10 in the Green Team, 8 in the Blue Team), a four-man crew and 2 team/expedition lead­ers — Joey Kel­ly and Sven Penszuk.

What is more, a group of ENERGETIX dis­trib­u­tors has been to Patag­o­nia already. The cat­e­go­ry 1 train­ing trip to Argenti­na in 2012 includ­ed a vis­it to Patagonia!

… that the rec­tan­gu­lar stain­less steel pen­dant (2563–1) and the heart pen­dant with sparkling crys­tals (1177) are ide­al if you want to add a per­son­al­ized touch with an engraved name!?

Are you look­ing for prac­ti­cal tips from expe­ri­enced dis­trib­u­tors? That’s not a prob­lem – you can now watch two infor­ma­tive new videos on the ENERGETIX YouTube channel.

The short film „Dream­like and real – a career with ENERGETIX“ presents an exclu­sive insight into the phi­los­o­phy and way of work­ing of ENERGETIX dis­trib­u­tor Renée Piguet, who lives in Switzer­land, based on com­mu­ni­ca­tion, open-mind­ed­ness, the use of oppor­tu­ni­ties and poten­tials and – last but not least – a good por­tion of fun.

In the sec­ond film, „Sell­ing jew­ellery is a man’s busi­ness“, Inde­pen­dent dis­trib­u­tor Bernd Lind­hauer gives use­ful prac­ti­cal tips and explains why the com­pa­ny’s busi­ness idea is far from being some­thing just for women. Bernd’s suc­cess sto­ry shows that men too can enjoy and be suc­cess­ful in this line of busi­ness if they work „with enjoy­ment and enthusiasm“.

Both enter­tain­ing videos are now ready for you to view on the ENERGETIX YouTube chan­nel in Eng­lish, French and Dutch as well as in German.

We hope you enjoy them!

Much to the delight of David Schn­abel, com­mit­ted ENERGETIX dis­trib­u­tor Karin Christ „spon­sored“ the artis­tic cycling ath­lete with two sportEX bracelets and a sportEX sports shirt (many thanks for the photo!).

With his eight World Cham­pi­onship titles, David Schn­abel is the most suc­cess­ful artis­tic cyclist in the his­to­ry of indoor cycling and holds the cur­rent world record for sin­gle artis­tic cycling.

More infor­ma­tion about David Schn­abel is also avail­able at www.david-schnabel.de