Recovery Drink - Nurishment?

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  • arnie-77
    arnie-77 Posts: 61
    that's the same cans I see left in the gutter of my street - the local corner shop does a roaring trade in those and super strength discount cider. Strangely enough I think it may even be the same people buying both...

    For me, I'd skip it. Frijj milkshakes all the way!
    "Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving." A. Einstein
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Never heard of them, but I assume they are idiots as the cant even spell Vitamin properly.

    I wouldnt trust them with anything !

    Rego is good, or failing that - Nesquik milkshake. Slimfast Milkshakes are good after an event - just bung a couple in your kit bag.
  • softlad
    softlad Posts: 3,513
    or Mars Milk, my personal fave. Now available in cartons... ;)
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    I think they give you all the vitamins you need when you're too smacked up to eat any food....

    Not that they can use that aas an advertising slogan.
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  • sampras38
    sampras38 Posts: 1,917
    softlad wrote:
    or Mars Milk, my personal fave. Now available in cartons... ;)

    Surely not...don't you find them a bit sweet?

    Not to mention being full of crap.
  • alp777
    alp777 Posts: 211
    They have even spelt "NURISHMENT" wrong! :roll:
  • Slow1972
    Slow1972 Posts: 362
    I think these are imported from the Carribean area, that's the food section where they are sold in the very large tesco's near me. That may account (I'm guessing) for some of the spelling.

    What i can say is that if you look at the balance of carbs to protein, they're similar to that found in Rego. They only cost about 60p in tecos from what I recall and its ready to drink.

    Additionally, because they are long life you can keep a couple in the fridge so you have a nice chilled recovery drink ready for you with no mixing or faffing about

    I've tried them, they taste okay, and seem to have as just a good as good effect as a post-ride drink.

    So in summary, being good value, easy to cart around in a kit bag and having similar nutritional content to more expensive sports specific drinks like Rego they seem a sensible option to me and well worth remembering if you find yourself in a corner shop wanting a post ride drink

    Suggest for the price you give one a go before dismissing them so quickly :)
  • Edwin
    Edwin Posts: 785
    FFS people. look at the label. It's mainly just milk and sugar. You're just paying for the convenience of not making your own, which you could easily do by chucking about six teaspoons of sugar, some semi-skimmed milk and a couple of vitamin pills in a blender - that's all it is. Oh, and some flavourings, and possibly some E numbers and preservatives.
    Practically any milkshake will give you a good dose of carbs and protein (just google 'chocolate milk' and 'cycling performance' for scientific studies) - all this specialist 'recovery drink' stuff is just marketing. I don't post on here very often but I lurk a lot, and this seems to come up every few weeks. Whilst I appreciate I may start to sound like a participant on Grumpy Old Men, this is really starting to annoy me. Train hard, eat properly, and stop debating which overpriced commercial products you need to consume just to ride a bike.
    Rant over!

    Ed
  • softlad
    softlad Posts: 3,513
    sampras38 wrote:
    softlad wrote:
    or Mars Milk, my personal fave. Now available in cartons... ;)

    Surely not...don't you find them a bit sweet?

    Not to mention being full of crap.

    not really. like Edwin says, it is just flavoured milk after all. I don't carry it on the bike, but it is nice to have a couple in the fridge for afterwards...providing 'Mrs lad' has remembered to get some in...

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