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WHO WE ARE
EXPERIENCE
It all started when Jesús, just turned 13, bought his first sports nutrition book. He went from playing a team sport to an individual sport, swimming. Where performance begins to depend solely on oneself, improvement is subject to hard training and a sum of details that had to begin to be taken care of, including nutrition. He understood that sport and nutrition must walk together. He continued competing in swimming, combining it with other modalities (MTB, windsurfing, skiing, volleyball and basketball), but always attentive to the nutrition section.
PASSION
Finally, in 1994 he immersed himself in triathlon, his great passion, where nutrition and supplementation increasingly played a more important role for him. In 1999 he trained and competed very hard in different events and championships, but he had to abandon the most important event of the year for him, “El Home de Ferro de Ibiza”, one of the first 226 km distance triathlons in Spain. At that moment he was fully aware of the importance of nutrition in endurance sports. This test will mark a before and after in his sporting and professional life.
COMPETITION
In 2004, after completing his studies, and encouraged by his wife Pilar, who was starting out in triathlon, he returned to competing with clear and ambitious goals. He achieved good results, but the long distance continued to be resisted, always due to digestive problems in the last hours of the competitions, when the body needs it most. In 2007, aware that this problem is one of the great obstacles that any athlete must overcome in the long distance; Together with his doctor, coach, dietician, many specialized books, scientific studies and testing of all the products on the market, he decides to start a search to find out the causes of digestive problems in competition, and how to overcome them.
RESEARCH
In 2010 he began to make his own compositions as a result of his research. Decide to eliminate gluten, drastically reduce sugar intake during exercise and use nutritional sources that are as clean as possible and of the highest quality (natural foods), as well as ingest compounds with low osmolarity in order to reduce the risk of a digestion cut due to dehydration. Then everything starts to change. Your performance improves and the products begin to suit you. During that summer I started 226ERS in an office of just over 12 square meters, in the basement of his home. 226ERS was born with its first 3 references.
OVERCOMING
In 2011 he achieved his first qualification for IM Kona, IM World Championship and in 2012 he was proclaimed European Long Distance Champion in Challenge Roth, going under 9 hours. In 2014 and 2016 he participated 3 times in the Ironman® World Championship in Kona. His life was different, both professional and sporting, but all marked by nutrition appropriate to his needs, the same as almost any athlete with long, hard days, who seeks well-being and make this philosophy his lifestyle to improve in his daily life and in sport.
PERFORMANCE
As the brand grows, 226ERS is more aware that sport and nutrition, in addition to being basic for good physical condition and performance, are necessary for an optimal mental state. The more than 80 references today are not only products directly related to physical activity, but also for everyday use, for all those who take care of their health. Always following the same guidelines and enthusiasm that marked the beginning, trying to improve day by day, using the best quality of ingredients, and always with natural products, paying special attention to their proper digestion. Along this long road, 226ERS continues to grow.