About Ramon Siljade
About Ramon Siljade
5 Day Fast
5 Day Fast
About me
Founder of 5 Day Fast
Founder of 5 Day Fast
15+
years of training & dieting at the highest level
My sports career started in the Dutch Eredivisie Basketball, where I played for 7 years and won two national championships with Amsterdam. I was also recognised as the best three-point shooter in 2011. After my playing career, I was chairman of Apollo Amsterdam for 5.5 years, where I helped countless players and coaches make their debut in the Eredivisie.
During my active career as a basketball player, I was a teacher for three years at a vocational college (MBO level 1/2). With my "feet in society", I helped vocational students on to the next step in their school career.
Alongside that, partly during my basketball career, I spent nearly 10 years working as an advisor and project/change manager for the Amsterdam municipality and the GGD.
Between 2014 and 2017, I was responsible for the programmes that the municipality of Amsterdam/GGD used to combat obesity among children. With the most important question being: how can we use the scientific knowledge and evidence of "today" to get straight to work in a practical way to help those children who need it, in a safe and effective way.
At the end of 2017, I founded Apollo Triathlon and in 2018 the Apollo Endurance Lab. On one hand to further develop Apollo as an Amsterdam sports brand and make it known to a wider audience, on the other hand to start building the biggest triathlon and endurance sports community in Amsterdam.
After my active basketball career, I also started doing triathlons myself and I take part in IRONMAN races all over the world. In 2021, I became European champion at the half IRONMAN distance.
In 2022 I took part in the IRONMAN World Championship in Hawaii, and in 2023 I not only competed in the World Championship at the half IRONMAN distance, but I also won my age group at IRONMAN Barcelona. With that, I secured my slot for the IRONMAN World Championship in Hawaii in 2024.
In 2020, I started the "Apollo Health Pilot" with over 50 participants. Due to the large number of athletes who took part, it turned out that the approach doesn't just lead to better health, but also to improved sports performance.
Over three years later, in 2023, together with Marijn de Leeuw, I launched the follow-up to the Pilot: 5 Day Fast.
With a massive passion I, along with my team, am building a community where sport, innovation, health and above all people come together, and within which I can help you to get healthier and fitter.
15+
years of training & dieting at the highest level
My sports career started in the Dutch Eredivisie Basketball, where I played for 7 years and won two national championships with Amsterdam. I was also recognised as the best three-point shooter in 2011. After my playing career, I was chairman of Apollo Amsterdam for 5.5 years, where I helped countless players and coaches make their debut in the Eredivisie.
During my active career as a basketball player, I was a teacher for three years at a vocational college (MBO level 1/2). With my "feet in society", I helped vocational students on to the next step in their school career.
Alongside that, partly during my basketball career, I spent nearly 10 years working as an advisor and project/change manager for the Amsterdam municipality and the GGD.
Between 2014 and 2017, I was responsible for the programmes that the municipality of Amsterdam/GGD used to combat obesity among children. With the most important question being: how can we use the scientific knowledge and evidence of "today" to get straight to work in a practical way to help those children who need it, in a safe and effective way.
At the end of 2017, I founded Apollo Triathlon and in 2018 the Apollo Endurance Lab. On one hand to further develop Apollo as an Amsterdam sports brand and make it known to a wider audience, on the other hand to start building the biggest triathlon and endurance sports community in Amsterdam.
After my active basketball career, I also started doing triathlons myself and I take part in IRONMAN races all over the world. In 2021, I became European champion at the half IRONMAN distance.
In 2022 I took part in the IRONMAN World Championship in Hawaii, and in 2023 I not only competed in the World Championship at the half IRONMAN distance, but I also won my age group at IRONMAN Barcelona. With that, I secured my slot for the IRONMAN World Championship in Hawaii in 2024.
In 2020, I started the "Apollo Health Pilot" with over 50 participants. Due to the large number of athletes who took part, it turned out that the approach doesn't just lead to better health, but also to improved sports performance.
Over three years later, in 2023, together with Marijn de Leeuw, I launched the follow-up to the Pilot: 5 Day Fast.
With a massive passion I, along with my team, am building a community where sport, innovation, health and above all people come together, and within which I can help you to get healthier and fitter.