Recovery drinks?

Simon430 wrote:

I see where your coming from but I tend to go for a ride come home at 5.30-6ish and have an apple or banana and not have my tea till 9ish, so just making sure I recieve the right nutrients.

Also, sent myprotein an email and they confirmed that the evo does not contain creatine so ill be ordering that.

When you get home try having a muller rice instead of the apple/banana.

Sufficient and the right food some time earlier or the night before. A drink involving water, sugars and salt during the ride (make your own. I do High Juice + water + salt. Cheap and loads of fruit juice with less expensive branding). Don't burn out. After - whatever. Tea, coffee, snack before a nice meal later, beer, veg on the sofa in front of the telly.

Why does creatine not mix with cycling?

Chocolate Milk!

Mid ride snack - Cheese straws of course (it's a Surrey thing ).

I use the Myprotein Meal replacement: http://www.myprotein.com/uk/products/total_mrp

Nice balance of protein, carbs and fats, maybe not quite as ideal for recovery as the specific recovey blends, but the amount of sugar put me off.

Now Protein shakes do not make you fat or put on weight as has been suggested. Unless you're taking them on top of your normal food intake, as you'll then be consuming excess calories.

However proper food (good quality food) is always better than supplements. I only use this when i get to work in the morning, or if i've got a decent drive home after a ride, mainly because i'm lazy and don't prepare food before i set off.

Also use whey protein and a banana or two after gym workouts or if i run out of the meal replacement.

cooldad wrote:

Beer

Agreed 8)

GPS tracker usually tells me how much I've in theory consumed. So I go and eat a huge meal twice that number and beer/wine on top

Rushmore wrote:

I personally found no real benefits to using protein drinks myself. They were expensive, tasted like crap and make you put on weight if you don't constantly train...

Just eat a baked potato and tuna within 30 mins of finishing your ride...

much better, natural "proper" niutrience, tastier and cheaper.

I would love to know how you came to that conclusion and what logic you used?

A few things:
Myprotein.co.uk is cheap as chips, way cheaper than tuna and jacket potatoes.
The flavoured versions taste absolutely fine
And most interestingly, put on weight? So a shake containing 25g of protein equates to about 98 cals. A jacket potato and tuna a lot more, probably looking at about 300 at least! So you have one option with more carbs, more protein, more fat and more calories and you have the other option with less of all those things but you say the protein shake makes you put on weight?! Haha, laugh is all I can really do to that.

People put on weight simply because they eat more calories than they burn, there is no other way about it. I can asure you a protein shake will not make you 'put on weight' on it's own. It's an excellent way of replenishing quickly and efficiently.

Although I would recommend some carbs in the shake as well as the protein to replenish glycogen. I keep it simple and use fine oats, again, cheap as chips from myprotien,co.uk

Lol, Forgoodness shakes ain't cheap. You might aswell have a pint of semi skimmed milk. More protein in the milk and less sugar. With my oats and whey and milk I could make a better and cheaper recovery shake than either though to be honest.

Lol, Forgoodness shakes ain't cheap. You might aswell have a pint of semi skimmed milk. More protein in the milk and less sugar. With my oats and whey and milk I could make a better and cheaper recovery shake than either though to be honest.

I didn't mention cost. You said:

And most interestingly, put on weight? So a shake containing 25g of protein equates to about 98 cals. A jacket potato and tuna a lot more, probably looking at about 300 at least!

So are you suggesting that a 98 kcal recovery drink is a sufficient meal replacement to recover from a ride? To my mind if you're gonna eat anyway then just skip the recovery drink, unless you're doing back to back hard training days.

+1 for SIS Rego.

That said, I only use it after a long ride/run or during 24hr races and only really becasue i like the taste tbh!

With regard to calorie consumption, I do find it helps to stave off snacking if I'm between meals and I reckon that it does help reduce muscle stiffness the next day (although I'm fully prepared to accept that that is pure placebo!)

With alchohol, I discovered 2 weeks ago that it is no substitute for some proper stomach lining food though, especially if some hottie is waving Jagerbombs at you. (that said, she was the one being sick last weekend so we re 1 all at the mo )