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Super training results with green juice

  • 14-03-2013 12:32am
    #1
    energuy
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭


    Hey guys,
    I did Mount Juliet half marathon in Feb and finished with my best time since my peak 3 years ago.
    I started drinking green veg juice on 1st Jan, shed my extra stone in 5 weeks and blew myself away with my training performance. I also started growing my own wheatgrass and take a shot every morning. It is powerful stuff.
    I'm looking now to get focused on duathlon/triathlon. Any training tips or advice?
    I'm bursting to move to the next level


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  • #2
    oldscoil
    Registered Users Posts: 574 ✭✭✭oldscoil


    Hi

    What exactly is you "drinking green veg juice "

    And I'd like more info on how you grew your own wheatgrass?

    Thansk in advance.

    b


  • #3
    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,364 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    Fascinating stuff.

    Any particular green veggies that are more powerful than others?


  • #4
    elvis jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,197 ✭✭✭elvis jones


    RacoonQueen wrote: »
    Fascinating stuff.

    Any particular green veggies that are more powerful than others?

    Spinach, did you learn nothing from watching Popeye !!!!


  • #5
    energuy
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭energuy


    yes I am fond of the spinach like popeye.
    The green juice I make is nothing too unusual, but it sure works a treat.
    3 celery sticks
    half a cucumber
    3 handfuls spinach leaves
    thumb sized piece of fresh ginger
    1/4 of a lime - take out the pips
    you can add 1/2 of a green apple for taste initially but I have cut this out now, for low sugar
    I started with this and then began growing my own wheatgrass which dramatically boosted my performance. I either add some to my juice and I take a shot of wheatgrass everyday. It is incredible stuff.
    The whole thing works by cleansing the blood with plant sterols - the component you see advertised in all these cholesterol lowering yoghurts etc but you are not getting the sugars, just the super powers!
    All the nutrition is wasted and enzymes destroyed if you use a centrifugal juicer, too fast and too hot. Use a masticating juicer and you get all the goodness.


  • #6
    energuy
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭energuy


    Oldscoil, re growing wheatgrass
    I just sow my seed in a tray and cover for 3 days, then mist it twice a day for 7-10 days. I usually have a couple of trays on the go, at different stages. Very easy. I find the crop is better if you actually soak the seed in warm water overnight before sowing. And I use organic soil!
    It is too expensive to buy ready grown. €9 for a large bag. I get a 1kg bag of seed for €3, which does 5 trays. Also, when you cut it fresh from your own tray, you are sure to be getting more energy as it is still full of life. It is enjoyable too, watching your own crop grow!


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  • #7
    TRR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭TRR


    I find a morning glass of turtle blood can significantly increase the benefits of veg juice.


  • #8
    MrCreosote
    Registered Users Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭MrCreosote


    So that's what those cyclists mean by "juicing"!


  • #9
    Briando
    Registered Users Posts: 691 ✭✭✭Briando


    energuy wrote: »
    Hey guys,
    I did Mount Juliet half marathon in Feb and finished with my best time since my peak 3 years ago.
    I started drinking green veg juice on 1st Jan, shed my extra stone in 5 weeks and blew myself away with my training performance. I also started growing my own wheatgrass and take a shot every morning. It is powerful stuff.
    I'm looking now to get focused on duathlon/triathlon. Any training tips or advice?
    I'm bursting to move to the next level

    Not sure if serious....

    Get a good swim coach. Possibly join PB3 swim sessions if you are living in the Dublin area.

    Most importantly, visualize your self as the 2013 National Series champion and it will be come true.. believe in the power of positive mental attitude and drink the green juice. Go to the next level!


  • #10
    sconhome
    Registered Users Posts: 5,468 ✭✭✭sconhome


    Now I'm confused.

    Which is better? Green juice or the red beet juice that everyone was pushing last year?


  • #11
    hardCopy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    amphkingwest wrote: »
    Now I'm confused.

    Which is better? Green juice or the red beet juice that everyone was pushing last year?

    I hear the pros are mixing the two to make designer brown sludge.

    It won't show up in a blood test bit it's easily identified with a stool sample.


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  • #12
    peter kern
    Registered Users Posts: 3,359 ✭✭✭peter kern


    amphkingwest wrote: »
    Now I'm confused.

    Which is better? Green juice or the red beet juice that everyone was pushing last year?

    now, red juice is much better when you want to see what energy systems you are using since red beet juice has RVE ( of course you have to do a metabolic test if you want that to work) . whereas the TBE you find in green juice and especially in wheat grass will help you to feel better how much faster you get since it is very constant.


  • #13
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Briando wrote: »
    Not sure if serious....

    Get a good swim coach. Possibly join PB3 swim sessions if you are living in the Dublin area.

    Most importantly, visualize your self as the 2013 National Series champion and it will be come true.. believe in the power of positive mental attitude and drink the green juice. Go to the next level!

    Reading a great book at the moment on the power of negative thinking. have to say it makes perfect sense. Happiness through negative thinking. Happy days


  • #14
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users Posts: 19,495 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    Limes have pips? :confused:


  • #15
    sconhome
    Registered Users Posts: 5,468 ✭✭✭sconhome


    Krusty_Clown wrote: »
    Limes have pips? :confused:

    Unless its a Jaffa, there's got to be seeds somewhere.


  • #16
    BTH
    Registered Users Posts: 3,075 Mod ✭✭✭✭BTH


    amphkingwest wrote: »
    Unless its a Jaffa, there's got to be seeds somewhere.

    Jaffa?? You mean Jaffa Cakes?? Now we're talking.


  • #17
    JohnBee
    Registered Users Posts: 335 ✭✭JohnBee


    Masticating, mmmmmmm :P


    I find green juice works best when you bathe in it twice per day


  • #18
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users Posts: 19,495 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    amphkingwest wrote: »
    Unless its a Jaffa, there's got to be seeds somewhere.
    Unless it's a naturally occurring parthenocarpic fruit, which doesn't have or need seeds (like for example, a lime). Not a fan of Mojitos then?!


  • #19
    sconhome
    Registered Users Posts: 5,468 ✭✭✭sconhome


    Krusty_Clown wrote: »
    Not a fan of Mojitos then?!

    Ever since Miami Vice I love 'em!! Just get someone else to make them :)


  • #20
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Krusty_Clown wrote: »
    Unless it's a naturally occurring parthenocarpic fruit, which doesn't have or need seeds (like for example, a lime). Not a fan of Mojitos then?!

    Except the lime isn't. Persian limes are seedless, key limes aren't. Persian limes were cultivated a few hundred years ago. Some prefer the bitterness of key limes.


  • #21
    johnk123
    Registered Users Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭johnk123


    energuy wrote: »
    Oldscoil, re growing wheatgrass
    I just sow my seed in a tray and cover for 3 days, then mist it twice a day for 7-10 days. I usually have a couple of trays on the go, at different stages. Very easy. I find the crop is better if you actually soak the seed in warm water overnight before sowing. And I use organic soil!
    It is too expensive to buy ready grown. €9 for a large bag. I get a 1kg bag of seed for €3, which does 5 trays. Also, when you cut it fresh from your own tray, you are sure to be getting more energy as it is still full of life. It is enjoyable too, watching your own crop grow!
    Do you mind me asking where you buy it?


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  • #22
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    What if you juice green Haribo? Just as good?


  • #23
    sconhome
    Registered Users Posts: 5,468 ✭✭✭sconhome


    tunney wrote: »
    What if you juice green Haribo? Just as good?

    Nothing's as good as Haribo!


  • #24
    lway
    Registered Users Posts: 302 ✭✭lway


    tunney wrote: »
    What if you juice green Haribo? Just as good?

    Just don't go juicing Green Jelly Babies. The Green (lime flavoured) Jelly Babies are known as Boofuls and can be seen crying on the cover of Jelly Baby packets.
    The tears of Jelly Babies are known to be particularly high in sodium which can lead to increased levels in your blood stream.


    source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_Babies
    source for the last sentence: some dark recess of my imagination.


  • #25
    sconhome
    Registered Users Posts: 5,468 ✭✭✭sconhome


    This thread is side-slipping nicely into a subforum of the Cuckoo's Nest...


  • #26
    energuy
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭energuy


    johnk123 wrote: »
    Do you mind me asking where you buy it?

    I get my seed from greenvalu.ie and you can get regular compost at any garden centre. I like to use organic compost. Best thing is to have two trays on the go at once, you never run out of it that way.


  • #27
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users Posts: 19,495 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    tunney wrote: »

    Except the lime isn't. Persian limes are seedless, key limes aren't. Persian limes were cultivated a few hundred years ago. Some prefer the bitterness of key limes.
    You know a key lime is yellow right? Had one recently?!


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