André Höflich

I´m at the mountain with my friends. It´s empty, nobody else is there. Lifts are running. Fresh powder snow,-7 degrees Celsius, sun, no wind. You see nothing but white snow, trees, bumps you can jump and a few cliffs. No tracks. You drop in with the whole crew. Boom - Face shot from the powder, you hear the sound of your board gliding through the snow - ssssshhhhhhhh - one friend jumps right in front of you, screams of out in joy. You see a cliff, jump it. High fives for everybody at the bottom. You go back up and repeat this 25 times this day. Dinner and sauna in the evening to relax – that pretty much describes the perfect day.

You´re getting ready for your run, your competition, for your new trick or that one heavy squats set you haven´t done before. The music is streaming through your ears. There´s nothing around you, it is just you with yourself and your dreams. That’s it, that’s the moment. You feel like you´re Indestructible, but you also feel a little fear. It’s kind of a feeling of Pins´n´Needles in your stomach, your ears get hot and your arms and legs feel smooth and relaxed. The only thing you think about is what´s coming up in the next seconds. What YOU are going to do in the next seconds. 3, 2, 1, breathe….. GO!!

Whenever I´m outside, I feel like I´m well balanced. All the things running through my head suddenly relax and calm down for a minute. Once I´m on top of a nice summit looking around, problems don´t seem to be as big as the mountain I just climbed, or the trees I was walking by, or the horizon I can see from up here. I´m taking a break. Nature´s giving me the feeling of security. Out here I´m safe. Some people might be scared by nature, but when you start treating nature, as you want to be treated yourself, you start appreciating and nature will help you solve your problems by relaxation and grounding your thoughts into something bigger than anything else.

Depends on winter or summer season. Anyway, in both I usually get to snowboard a lot.
Whenever I´m snowboarding, I do two sessions per day. One early bird with the first gondola
when there is less people on the mountain. After that, I have a little lunch break and get back on the board when I´m rested. After I get back home, I might do a workout if I feel like I need some more action for the day. When I´m not snowboarding, I do a lot of training, specifically for snowboarding. Including Trampolining, Skateboarding,Endurance Sports and Weightlifting. Everything I can do to become a stronger, better, faster Snowboarder.

When I was 15, I decided that Snowboarding will be my profession one day. Thanks to my parents, I went to a Sports Boarding school where I could combine school, snowboarding and other training sessions. That way I was able to find a good balance between focusing on snowboarding and training while still leaving room for school and my academic goals.

Our Creapure® Athlete Manager used to be with the snowboard brand I´m riding for. We´ve known each other for many years now, so that makes it so comfortable for me to work with Creapure®.

Primarily, I use it for my strength training and weightlifting. In off-snow periods I usually take about 3-5g on a spoon and mix it with my breakfast juice or I just pour it in my water bottle and have it during the first training session of the day.

I use it because I feel better prepared for the upcoming winter season. Thanks to Creapure®, I can train harder and longer and I recover faster during the training sessions. That also means I can train more giving me an advantage.

The special thing about Creapure® is that I know exactly know what is in the product. In fact, Creapure® Creatine-Monohydrate is the ONLY option for me, because it´s the only Creatine that is produced in the western world and that I trust. The manufacturing process includes several mandatory tests to make sure it´s clean from all the stuff you don´t want to have in your creatine.

Strength, Focus, Recovery. As simple as that!

I think many athletes could take advantage of Creapure®. It doesn´t change you but it enables you to work harder to achieve your goals and your dreams. It is also important for athletes to know that when using Creapure(R), you don’t have to worry about a positive doping test.