Smoothies/juices
Matthewfalle
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Morning all
Just wondering if anyone had any preferred/recommended juice or smoothie recipes that are cycling specific.
Ta muchly.
Just wondering if anyone had any preferred/recommended juice or smoothie recipes that are cycling specific.
Ta muchly.
Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
smithy21 wrote:
He's right you know.
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Just eat the fruit or/and veg. Otherwise you get a calorie bomb without the fibre. Been a lot of "experts" talking about this recently. I'm not one of them :-)0
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Lance swore by cycling specific vegetable smoothies....I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles0
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I create smoothies most days in a blender before breakfast. These are not usually cycling specific but I do also sometimes have one for a recovery drink instead of the soya chocolate milk + impact whey protein I usually have.
3-4 20cm cubes of frozen pineapple (I prepare and freeze this myself because I use it a lot in smoothies)
1/2 banana
1/2 pear or apple or slice of honeydew melon
handful of blueberries or grapes
30g impact whey protein (unflavoured)
30g maltodextrin
desert spoon honey
250-300 ml chilled water (from the fridge)
For a morning smoothie I usually have something like this:
Handful of baby spinach
3-4 20cm cubes of frozen pineapple
1/2 banana
1/2 pear or apple or slice of honeydew melon
desert spoon honey
250-300 ml chilled water (from the fridge)
small piece of root ginger (say 1 cm cubed, don't go mad with this it's quite strong)0 -
By cycling specific I meant not to help my complexion or sort my ying/yang. I'm thinking recovery/protein heavy.Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honoursmithy21 wrote:
He's right you know.0 -
Matthewfalle wrote:By cycling specific I meant not to help my complexion or sort my ying/yang. I'm thinking recovery/protein heavy.
The first recipe I gave will do that. For a recovery smoothie you basically need a 3:1 ratio of high GI carbs to protein which is why I add maltodextrin and honey to the fruit and whey protein mix.0 -
A good breakfast smoothie:
200ml Apple juice
150g Natural yogurt
1 Banana
A handful of dates
A spoonful of honey
20g of oats
Tasty and nutritious. Around 550kcal with a good mix of high/low GI carbs and fibre in the oats further lowers the Glycaemic load of the whole smoothie. Good protein in the yogurt in oats as well to keep you full. Have that with 4 slices of toast or 100g porridge and you'll fuel a 4 hr ride easily!
As a general rule, if you're worried about the 'high GI' of blended fruit, add some oats and the fibre will lower the GL. Additionally, using full fat yogurt has a lower GI.I'm on Twitter! Follow @olake92 for updates on my racing, my team's performance and some generic tweets.0 -
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barry_kellett99 wrote:
I was wondering the same myself. And where is he getting the massive pineapples??0 -
barry_kellett99 wrote:
LOL! I've got the same unlimited one as on that PlusNet advert!
Seriously, it is a typo, should be 2cm or 20mm, take your pick.0
