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NSF is a global public health organization that tests and certifies products to help protect athletes and consumers from potentially harmful ingredients and athletic-banned substances in dietary supplements.

 

BOA Nutrition’s BOA IGNITE BLAST, the oral aerosol that provides power-packed fuel for a rapid energy supply, has achieved certification from the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF)’s Certified for Sport Program.

 

If you want to break into the crowded marketplace of sports nutrition for endurance athletes, you need to go in with a game-changer.

 

BOA Nutrition, whose chief executive officer, Jon Pritchett, works in Winston-Salem’s Innovation Quarter, believes it has done just that with development of portable aerosol products that are designed to get athletes refueled more rapidly during training and competition.

BOA Nutrition, inventor of the BOA Endure rapid sodium replenishment product, has been selected as Official Endurance Salt of Ironman in the North America region as well as the Ironman World Championship and Ironman 70.3® World Championship.

BOA Nutrition has signed 2018 Boston Marathon champion and 50K world record holder Des Linden as a brand ambassador for Endure, a sodium replenishment oral aerosol. Linden is one of the most accomplished American distance runners of all time, with multiple top-five performances at four of the six world marathon majors. After representing Team USA at the 2012 London Olympics and the 2016 Rio Olympics, she became the first American woman in 33 years to win the Boston Marathon in 2018.

Sports performance supplement company BOA Nutrition, inventor of the BOA Endure rapid sodium replenishment product, announced today that Endure has been selected as Official Endurance Salt of IRONMAN® in the North America region as well as the IRONMAN® World Championship and IRONMAN® 70.3® World Championship.

“Sodium is instrumental for many other things besides just performance. It's what makes all the muscles contract. And it's what helps deliver nutritive neurotransmitter messages and if you don't have enough sodium the whole body's going to start shutting down,” Susan Kitchen, a registered dietitian and USA Triathlon Level II and IRONMAN certified endurance coach, in an interview with Advnture.

BOA Endure, the rapid hydration oral aerosol from BOA Nutrition, recently earned certification from NSF’s Certified for Sport® Program. NSF is a global public health organization that tests and certifies products to help protect athletes and consumers from potentially harmful ingredients and athletic banned substances in dietary supplements.

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A first of its kind, this ingestible aerosol of sodium relieves tight muscles 10 times faster than any other method. Each two-second spray delivers 150 mg of sodium. The whole container equates to 24 bottles of your favorite energy-replenishing beverage meant to relieve tight muscles.

BOA Nutrition has signed an endorsement deal with top American triathlete and IRONMAN champion, Sam Long.

 

The company noted that the Boulder-Colorado native used BOA Endure throughout his training for the 2022 IRONMAN World Championship in St George on May 7. He wore BOA-branded headgear at the event and used Endure during the competition to aid with hydration in the hot, dry conditions in Utah.

Christian Torres

 BOA Nutrition announced today it has signed a deal with 17-year-old forward Christian Torres of the Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC). Torres will be featured in the company’s brand marketing campaigns beginning this year.

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Pictured: Hunter McIntyre & Katie Knight pose with their cans of BOA ENDURE.

BOA Nutrition announced it has inked a deal with the 7-time champion and world-record-holder in multiple obstacle course racing disciplines. Hunter McIntyre holds titles from Hyrox, Tough Mudder X, OCR, the Murph Challenge, and Broken Skull Ranch. Sports Illustrated has called him one of the 50 Fittest Humans on Earth. The company announced it has also signed Katie Knight, the 2021 World's Toughest Mudder Champion, who recently decided to pursue obstacle course racing on a more serious basis.

Pictured: Wendell Moore, Jr during the filming of his first television commercial.

BOA Nutrition announced it has inked a deal with Duke's leading scorer and captain, Wendell Moore, Jr. The player will be featured in the company's new ad campaign and in social media over the next several months. Moore was one of several basketball players at Duke who began using the company's sodium replacement product, BOA ENDURE, after having problems with cramping in the second half of an early game this season.

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In its first game since being ranked No. 1, Duke dropped a 71-66 decisionto Ohio State on the road on Tuesday. In that contest, star freshman Paolo Banchero didn't do his usual amount of damage as he scored just 14 points and secured five rebounds.

In addition, during the broadcast of the game, ESPN's Holly Rowe reported that Banchero is a "heavy sweater," and can loses up to seven pounds every game as a result. It was also reported that Banchero has to take a sweat test and drink a special "BOA Oxygenated Fluid" to stave off cramps.

Ryan Bolton, Olympian, and Founder and Owner of Bolton Endurance

BOA Nutrition welcomed two endurance and sports industry leaders to its advisory board this week: Ryan Bolton, Founder and Owner of Bolton Endurance Sports Training, former Olympian, USA Triathlon Performance Manager, and professional coach, and Archie Paton, a veteran sports marketing and technology expert from the U.K., whose international clients have included: ATP World Tour, The R&A, The Open Golf Championship, Six Nations Championship, West Indies Cricket, and various English Premier League football clubs.

A new product from BOA Nutrition helps replenish sodium for athletes.

A North Carolina company with its headquarters in Raleigh is looking to make an impact in the sports supplement market.

BOA Nutrition’s concept is simple: a bottle that uses an aerosol blast to help athletes replace the sodium they lose when sweating. The goal is to attract triathletes first, and then expand.

Raleigh's BOA Nutrition delivers sodium—and ultimately other nutrients—to endurance athletes through a high-powered blast of oxygen.

Nutrition supplement manufacturers, beware: Raleigh-based BOA Nutrition’s nutrient-propellent technology looks to bring next-level performance to professional athletes and gym rats alike.  

BOA President and CEO—and North Carolina entrepreneurial vet—Jon Pritchett said the product’s use of oxygen as both a vessel and an absorption tool is the result of years of tinkering in the hands of Hank Durschlag, the company’s Founder, Chief Innovation Officer and scientific mastermind.

Photo courtsey of Superleague Triathlon

Super League Triathlon (SLT) and BOA Nutrition have agreed a multi-year partnership that makes BOA the Official Nutraceutical Partner of the Championship Series.

BOA’s multi-year partnership with Super League will begin with the 2021 Championship Series, which features four back-to-back races throughout September with events in London, Munich, Jersey and Malibu and will crown the fastest triathletes in the world with short, sharp and action packed events in a made for broadcast package that will thrill fans around the world.

Raleigh's BOA Nutrition delivers sodium—and ultimately other nutrients—to endurance athletes through a high-powered blast of oxygen.

USA Triathlon is partnering with BOA Nutrition, to make its first product, Endure, the ‘exclusive performance salt blast’ of USA Triathlon.

BOA (which stands for a Blast of Optimized Actives) is launching Endure, at the 2021 Toyota USA Triathlon Age Group National Championships on August 7-8 in Milwaukee. The new product is designed to help athletes delay the onset of fatigue by replacing lost sodium.

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