First Endurance Sponsored Professional Cyclists and Teams
The new Astana Cycling Team is in its first year under the leadership of Johan Bruyneel, the eight-time winning Sports Director of the Tour de France. Sponsored by a conglomerate of companies hailing from Astana, the capital of cycling enthused Kazakhstan, the Team was
created to foster national pride and the development of Kazakhstan’s young riders. With 30 riders representing 14 countries, Team Astana is a member of cycling’s elite UCI ProTour and competes in a clean and ethical environment under the guidance of Dr. Rasmus Damsgaard’s anti-doping program.
First Endurance is pleased to announce OptygenHP™ as the Official Training and Racing Supplement of the Astana Cycling Team for the 2008 season. The Team, which includes 2007 Tour de France Champion Alberto Contador and 3rd place Tour De France finisher Levi Leipheimer, will race and train with OptygenHP, as well as work with First Endurance on product development. “I’m looking forward to 2008 and defending the Tour de France title. It will certainly be a challenge, but I’m glad that Optygen will continue to be on the breakfast table to help us achieve our goals,” said Alberto Contador.
The Astana Team partnership evolved from First Endurance’s sponsorship of the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team. “We’re very pleased that Johan Bruyneel wanted to continue our relationship,” stated Mike Fogarty, VP of Sales & Marketing at First Endurance. “ With Levi,
Alberto and Johan leading Team Astana now, they will be the team to beat.”
Levi Leipheimer has been involved with First Endurance since the company was formed. “We’ve been working with Levi on new product development since 2002,” commented Robert Kunz, VP of Research and Development at First Endurance. “His input and feedback have been very important in the development of First Endurance products.” When Levi moved over to the Astana Team, he wanted to make sure his new team had access to Optygen. “I’ve used Optygen for a couple of years now. It’s com¬pletely safe, legal and most of all effective. The past two teams I’ve raced for have seen the ‘Optygen difference.’ As a leader now on the Astana Team, I will definitely share the benefits of these supplements with my new teammates,” stated Leipheimer.
Johan Bruyneel has been a team director for a record eight Tour de France victories. He knows winning the hardest stage race in the world requires the most advanced technology available. “When I became the GM of the Astana Team, it was important that we partnered with those companies that I had a previous relationship with and knew would contribute to our Team’s success. I’m very pleased that First
Endurance is part of our family and that we can continue to provide our riders with Optygen,” commented Bruyneel.
Astana Professional Cycling Team
"Optygen was on our breakfast table every morning of the Tour De France. It helped me and the enitre team to recover from an enormous amount of stress day after day". "Optygen is an endurance supplement that we trust during an event like the Tour De France".
Levi Leipheimer
Winner 2007 Tour of California
The Discovery Team partnership evolved from a partnership between First Endurance and Tour De France contender Levi Leipheimer. “We’ve been working with Levi on new product development since 2002,” says Robert Kunz, VP of Research and Development at First Endurance. “His input and feedback have been very important in the development of First Endurance products.” When Levi moved over to Discovery Channel, he wanted to make sure his new team had access to Optygen. “I’ve used Optygen for a couple of years now. It’s completely safe, legal and most of all effective. There is no question I can complete all my workouts without worrying about overtraining and fatigue.”
“We’re very pleased that the Discovery team has chosen to partner with First Endurance for the next two years,” says Mike Fogarty, VP of Sales & Marketing at First Endurance. “This partnership will help First Endurance gain mainstream brand awareness in North America and continue to expand in Europe.” Besides competing in the 2007 Giro d Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a España,and other major European races, the Discovery Team will be racing in North America at the Tour of California in February and also the Tour of Georgia in April.
Discovery Channel Cycling Team
First Endurance is pleased to announce they will continue sponsoring the Gerolsteiner Professional Cycling Team in 2008. First Endurance has been sponsoring the Gerolsteiner team since 2005. The team will receive OptygenHP, Multi-V, EFS, PreRace and Ultragen and will continue to work closely with First Endurance on new product development. Currently, the team is collaborating with First Enduance on an EFS liquid shot which the team will be testing during the Tour of California this February.
“The sponsorship came about initially back in 2005 because the riders wanted First Endurance products and wanted to be able to work
with First Endurance,” said Hans Holzer, the Gerolsteiner Team Manager. “We are very confident about the quality and the results we get from First Endurance. And, it’s exceptional that the riders like the taste of the products during the whole season.”
“We’re very pleased that the Gerolsteiner team has chosen to partner with First Endurance again in 2008,” said Mike Fogarty, VP of Sales & Marketing at First Endurance. “This partnership will allow First Endurance to expand brand awareness in Europe and continue to expand in North America. The Gerolsteiner Team will be racing in the upcoming Tour of California this February.”
Gerolsteiner Professional Cycling Team
Zabriskie, who currently races for CSC, won the prologue in the Tour De France (beating second place finisher Lance Armstrong by two seconds) in 2005 and wore the yellow jersey for three days.
Dave has been working with First Endurance since the company was started, when he was riding with the US Postal Service. “I started taking Optygen four years ago and felt a noticeable change in my breathing and how my muscles fatigued.” Says Zabriskie who goes on to say: “Combine Optygen with Multi-V and you’re good to go train hard. Multi-V is the only vitamin that has helped with my performance. I love its comprehensive approach to enhancing endurance. Not only does it have important vitamins and minerals, but its enzyme formula give me everything I need to train hard and its antioxidant formula keeps me healthy so I can keep training hard.”
Dave Zabriskie
Team CSC
First Endurance is pleased to announce they will be sponsoring the Priority Health Professional
Cycling Team in 2007 with an option for 2008. First Endurance sponsors the team with Optygen, Ultragen, EFS drinks
and MultiV. Many of the riders on the Priority Health team have been working with First Endurance to develop a revolutionary
new, liquid shot. Prototypes are on schedule to be ready for the Tour of California this February.
“We are extremely excited and proud to be supported by First Endurance! One of our primary objectives as an organization is
to create the very best environment for our athletes. Providing them with the best equipment, support and nutritional products
is key to achieving that objective. From the beginning of our planning for 2007 and beyond, First Endurance was the sport
nutrition sponsor we sought after because of their high quality, their quest for creating safe, natural and effective products and
their drive to help athletes reach their true potential.” -Mark Olson (Team Manager)
“Optygen, MultiV, EFS and Ultragen have helped increase my ability and output, allowing me to be better prepared for the
hardest races in America.”– Ben Jacques Maynes (Team Rider)
“First endurance products help my performance in training and racing day-to-day more than any other product out there. ”
- Scott Zwizanski (Team Rider)
Priority Health Professional Cycling Team
"I started using OPTYGEN last winter. I wanted see if it would help me in my endurance build up before the classics. The main difference I feel with OPTYGEN is that I am able to maintain my endurance heart rate zones now. In the past, I always had a hard time staying in my target heart rate zones after a couple of weeks of high endurance training. With OPTYGEN, I feel like I can sustain the zone with more ease. This allowed me to continue training in my target zone and helps me achieve better endurance."
Fred Rodriguez
Acqua & Sapone
"Optygen is a product for the driven and goal-oriented endurance athlete in us all. As national and international athletes, we understand the importance of maximizing training through long hours and hard efforts. Optygen allows me to push the barrier in my training day after day with incredible results."
Ben Jacques-Maynes
Sierra Nevada professional Cycling Team
"Since I've been using Optygen I have been feeling as though I can recover better after a big effort. It's been a big part of my success this year so far."
Henk Vogels
Navigators Professional Cycling Team
"I have tried about every supplement under the sun in the pursuit of going faster on the bike and recovering more quickly...alarmingly the only thing most supplements did for me was lighten my wallet and leave a bad taste in my mouth!
The few I have found that DO work come nowhere near to the results I have found with OPTYGEN. I recover much quicker between hard efforts, which keeps in the hunt longer, no "ifs ands or buts", OPTYGEN works. If you don't find this to be true for you, by all means e-mail me and give me a piece of your mind!"
Burke Swindlehurst
Navigators Professional Cycling Team
"My recovery has been almost overnight, after stage races that is truly amazing. I have always been a bit suspicious of the claims of supplement companies, but I must admit this one really works."
Jonny Sundt
K2
"I feel great! I have noticed that I don't have to hold back on extending too many efforts in a race thinking that I would not recover fast enough for a counter attack or other effort to bridge a gap on the road. My confidence has increased due to this and my body has recovered excellent for a repeat effort the next day. On the mountain bike I have noticed similar results in my climbing and being able to grind it out without and upping the tempo to see how far I will go."
Shawn Mitchell
Sobe Professional Mountain Bike Team Rider
“Optygen: In a word, AMAZING. I got to test this product in North America’s hardest one-day race (The San Francisco Grand Prix) and everything Optygen claims is true! I experienced higher power output at lower heart rate values! Plus, Optygen allows a huge capacity for workload and recovery. Basically no matter how hard of an effort I put in, I recovered and Optygen allows me to come back for more! Again, AMAZING!”
Chris McGovern
Sierra Nevada professional Cycling Team
“The last month and a half of racing has been GREAT!! In between all the hard work, and with the help of OPTYGEN to get me though the workouts and racing, I had three of my best races at Elite Nationals. I set a PR in the pursuit and my best results in the points race. I was also on the winning team pursuit team.
As far as Worlds goes (William’s won three Gold Medals and set a World Record). It was my best competition as far as feeling like I could do anything I set my mind to. That is after I got the first race done and looked up at the timing board and it said WORLD BEST TIME!! I knew I was on a good ride but had no idea of what time it would be. I felt like I was recovering well after every race and could go 100% each time on got on the track. I set PR's in every race for the whole week. So I guess that after having my best year of racing and I'm now 35 year old. I can say that OPTYGEN really WORKS!! No doubts.”
Kenny Williams-Seattle, WA.
2003 World Champion
"Since using Optygen I have gained a level of endurance that I never knew existed"
Marty Nothstein
Navigators Professional Cycling Team
Olympic Champion
"I've noticed that this season I can recover quicker during the race. I can make a big effort-one that could possibly put me out of the race-and I can rest in the wheels a bit and be able to do it again. I've also noticed that my HR is higher with less perceived effort. This says to me I am fresher and, again my body is recovering quicker."
Jeff Louder
Navigators Professional Cycling Team
"I started taking Optygen just before I went away to Europe and was on it while at camp and our first races. I have noticed an increase in recovery after efforts and definitely a change in my heart rate, I would say that my HR is hitting about 5 beats higher at max than it has done in the last few years. As the races we did were the first for the year, I am still finding my race fitness but I am very excited about the California tours coming up"
Glen Mitchell
Sierra Nevada professional Cycling Team
I've got to say that I'm really happy with Optygen and Ultragen. I can attribute my early season success in New Zealand and Malaysia to your supplements. I did both races back to back, coming off my winter holidays and not a whole lot of riding in my legs. I found that I could sustain longer threshold efforts shortly after the Optygen loading phase and I have immediately noticed improved recovery rates thanks to the Ultragen."
Eric Wohlberg
Two time Olympian (1996, 2000)
8 time Canadian TT champion
1999 Pan Am Gold Medalist
1998 Commonwealth Games Gold & Bronze medalist
Ultragen really helps my recovery. I think the best part about Ultragen is the fact that it is really easy to mix. After my race, I just add Ultragen to a water bottle, shake a little and then drink. I just finished a hard weekend of racing, and went out for a recovery ride the next day. To my surprise, I already felt recovered! My legs were neither sore nor lethargic. I was ready to train hard again the next day.
Andrea Hannos
Team Rona
"(With Optygen) I am able to hold my heart rate at a very high level for longer periods"
Jason Klikna
Sierra Nevada Professional Cycling Team
Utragen is a great recovery drink. It mixed well in water and it tasted good. That, in itself, is a breakthrough. It's something you should be drinking every time you do a solid workout. Consider it damage control. After tearing yourself up on the road it will help stabilize your blood sugar and give you protein to aid in tissue repair.
Damon Kluck
United States Postal Service
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