Jonas and Ines Kilthau

For triathletes, cyclists and entrepreneurs

Your blind spotis costing you performance.

Training, nutrition, supplements, your head: you optimise each part on its own. How they affect each other stays a blind spot. That’s where performance gets lost, and where we start.

Find your blind spotfree · 3 minutes
50+athletes we have worked with
Jonas KilthauFormer Rowing World Champion · MSc Management, Strategy & Consulting
Ines KilthauEuropean Rowing Champion · Sports scientist · Triathlete
EnduranceTriathlon, cycling and entrepreneurs who train

Sound familiar?

You do everything right. And on the day that counts, it doesn’t show up.

On race dayHalfway through the race your stomach turns. Your legs feel flat, although your training numbers were great.
At workThe most important meeting of the quarter, and your head is still in the last one. At night it keeps spinning.
In betweenYou fix one thing, and the next one shows up. Physio, supplements, a new plan. It helps for two weeks.

You don’t lack discipline. You’re missing the view on how everything connects.

Our USP · The blind spot

Everything is connected. Like an ecosystem.

Most experts work on one level: the nutritionist on food, the coach on training, the mental coach on the head. How the levels affect each other stays a blind spot. That interplay is what we work on.

Microbiome
Level 1

Microbiome

  • How you fuel and absorb, beyond the next supplement
  • Why your stomach reacts when it counts
  • Gut and head talk to each other, all day

Interplay: Affects your nervous system: a calm gut, a calmer head.

Nervous system
Level 2

Nervous system

  • How fast you come back down after load
  • Sleep and recovery that really recharge you
  • Calm under pressure, on race day and in the boardroom

Interplay: Affects your gut and your identity: tension goes straight to the stomach and into old patterns.

Identity
Level 3

Identity

  • Your athletic identity: who are you without the result?
  • Where your feeling of safety comes from: load, control or trust
  • Old patterns that still decide for you

Interplay: Affects both: what drives you decides how much stress your system carries.

Our model

Performance=Outside Ecosystem×Inside Ecosystem

Outside EcosystemTraining, coach, nutrition plan, equipment, environment
Inside EcosystemMicrobiome, nervous system, identity

Almost everyone invests in the outside. Whether it shows up is decided by the inside factor. Same training, three outcomes:

below 180Inside 0.8

It brakes. You lose what you’ve worked for.

equal to 1100Inside 1.0

It carries. What you trained shows up.

above 1110Inside 1.1

It amplifies. Your training works harder.

A model, illustrated with example numbers. No measured equation and no promise of results.

What if the same thing is behind your stomach, your sleep and your old patterns?

Find your blind spot

How it works

Find. Understand. Regulate.

01Find

Find your blind spot

11 everyday situations, 3 minutes. You instantly see your strongest warning signal, the first visible part of your blind spot. Why it shows up and how it connects with everything else, you find out in the Deep Dive.

FreeFind your blind spot
02Understand

Performance Deep Dive

Your status quo on one page: your whole Performance Ecosystem, where exactly your blind spot is, and what it costs you. Plus a tool to switch off that you can use the same day.

397 €What it shows you
03Regulate

The Regulated Athlete

1:1 mentoring for up to 12 months. Together we close the gap between knowing and doing, until your system carries everything you’ve built.

On requestSee the programme

100 % remote. Video calls and short check-ins that fit around your training and your calendar. In English or German.

The cost of doing nothing

Lost performance costs time and money.

2 weeksof 6 hours of sleep: in tests as impaired as after a sleepless night. And you barely notice.Van Dongen et al. 2003
~7 %less profit per year when the boss is out for 5 to 7 days.Bennedsen et al. 2020
18–60 %of the total cost of common health issues comes from being at work but not fully there.Goetzel et al. 2004
7×more likely to reach the season goal for athletes who complete over 80 % of their planned training weeks.Raysmith & Drew 2016

What you already invest

  • Coaching, equipment, entry fees and travel: up to 20,000 € a season for ambitious long-distance athletes*
  • Hundreds of hours of training a year
  • For entrepreneurs: your company, your team, your clients

What it costs when the system doesn’t carry

  • Training that never shows up on race day
  • Decisions made with half a head
  • A business that depends on how you slept

Each figure comes from its own source and cannot be added up. * Experience from conversations with long-distance athletes. No promise for individual results.

What is your blind spot costing you?

Knowing is not the hard part

Most people don’t fail at knowing. They fail at doing.

Even when you know your blind spot, the real work is closing the gap. Some manage that on their own. For everyone else, we’re there.

Built for the ones who go long.

The flagship programme

From Training Athlete to Regulated Athlete.

Where does your feeling of safety come from? The answer decides how much of your performance shows up. That’s why our company carries this name, and so does our flagship programme.

Training Athlete

Safety through load

CanPushes hard and never skips a session.

CostsRecovery gets lost. At some point the body pulls the brake.

Optimizer

Safety through control

CanPlans, data, everything under control.

CostsWhen the unplanned happens, the system tips over.

Regulated Athlete

Safety through trust

CanPerforms when it counts, comes back down fast, adapts when things change.

MeansThe system carries everything you’ve built.

1:1 mentoring programme

The Regulated Athlete

On request
1:1personal mentoring, no group programme
Up to 12 monthsstart any time
100 % remotein English or German
All 3 levelsmicrobiome, nervous system, identity
  • Personal 1:1 sessions with Jonas and Ines
  • Your Performance Ecosystem as the starting point, re-checked along the way
  • Regular check-ins and direct access on WhatsApp
  • Tools for everyday life and for race day
  • Built around your training plan and your calendar
  • Your Deep Dive is credited proportionally
Not sure yet? Book a free intro call and we’ll find out together whether the programme fits you.

Before and after

Where you might be today. And where we work towards.

Age-group triathletefull-time job, two kids
TodayHalfway through the race the stomach turns. Long-distance races end in walking.
What we work towardsKnows her signals and her race-day routine. The second half of the race is hers again.
Entrepreneur who ridesmanaging director, 40 employees
TodayNever fully switches off and is never quite present, not in meetings and not at home.
What we work towardsSwitches off in about ten minutes and is fully there again, for the team and the family.
Road cyclist in a big training blockpreparing a gran fondo
TodayA new niggle every few weeks. Physio helps, for two weeks.
What we work towardsRecovers faster between hard days and completes far more of the planned training.
Ambitious athlete with high standardsjob, family, training
TodayRest days come with a guilty conscience. Safety only comes from the next hard session.
What we work towardsRest days without guilt. Trust in what’s been built replaces constant control.

Illustrative examples. Every system is different, no promise of results.

“For a long time I kept finding excuses or doing other things, and I didn’t even really know why. With Jonas & Ines I finally managed to break that cycle. They knew exactly how I felt, because they had been there themselves.”Client, translated from German
“It was just as much as before. But I could buffer it in a completely different way.”What people tell us after working with us
Jonas and Ines Kilthau

Don’t do it like us

What we would do differently, looking back.

  1. We thought we were looking at the whole system, and still we overlooked our blind spot. Nobody sees their own.
  2. Get an outside view early, before the body pulls the brake.
  3. Real recovery is the key. It has little to do with wellness and massage. It’s about how the levels play together.

Our story became our insights. Our insights became our method. That’s why it works in real life.

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Be the best regulated version of yourself.

We help triathletes, cyclists and entrepreneurs find the blind spot between microbiome, nervous system and identity, and close the gap. Start free in 3 minutes.