Recovery drinks

Does anyone recommend a good recovery/protein drink?
At the mo, i am using PowerBar Protein plus, but am unsure to whether it is making a good/beneficial improvement in my recovery, rather than just eating high protein foods.
Would anyone say SIS or Torq etc recovery drinks are worth trying?
At the mo, i am using PowerBar Protein plus, but am unsure to whether it is making a good/beneficial improvement in my recovery, rather than just eating high protein foods.
Would anyone say SIS or Torq etc recovery drinks are worth trying?
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I recently bought a heavily discounted Torq recovery drink, Chocolate and Orange flavour - similar in the recovery stakes but the taste is absolutely rank. Avoid like the plague IMO.
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you would be "eat real food" whenever you can and leave the rest for when you can't.
Most of these things are not much better, if at all, than a regular candy bar. Just loaded
with sugar, maybe a bit of protein and not much else. Of course the "Ad-men" would have you believe that you can't possibly ride without these things, but that's another
subject that I won't get into.
Dennis Noward
or if you really feel the need to use a 'recovery' drink:
Mars Refuel or For Goodness Shake
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Like any sports drink or food, it is really hard to tell if it makes a difference. The one thing I notice is I am much less likely to pig out on junk foods once I have drunk a pint of recovery drink.
For recovery, i just eat normally, try to mix it up with steady carbs and protien nothing too heavy, a handful of peanuts goes down very well.
Giant Anthem X
More seriously, i like the lucozade hydro for post training, but i've never found i need anything for protein, even when in full training, i can get everything i need from a decent diet that i've tailored for my activities.
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For Goodness Shakes get my vote too (I used a carb+protein shake last year and got the same results)
Pretty much all the whey protein drinks are the same stuff anyway, aside from the taste I'd ignore the branding on them. Just as anything with carbs in will show off about having maltodextrin in (maize/potato starch :roll: ).
I read that drinking milk straight after exercise isn't so good as the body's temp is enough to curdle the milk in your stomach amd may upset it.....so mens health mag said but who knows.
What would be the diff in eating a bowl of porridge which has carbs and protein after riding than say rego providing your at home and able t make the porridge.
Also i noticed riding with SIS PSP22 i was getting a upset stomach so went back to water, didn't notice much diff in energy levels but stomach felt better.
Is it worth just using lucozade sport and the odd snicker bar??
The same friend recommended nuun tablets, and they are brilliant, and my local shop has them at half price just now so I'm stocking up!