Recovery Drinks

jimshady101 wrote: »

Lucazade sport and many "sugar free" drinks contain an artificial sweetener called aspartame which is viewed by some as quite dangerous. I personally never take ANY products containing aspartame. I try to stay away from artificial sweeteners as much as possible.

Info taken from another site:

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im heading into my 4th year of biomedical science and to be quite frank everything these days causes cancer, the humble slice of bread according to some people can cause it too. it will be a long time until i begin to worry about that sort of stuff, i have cheated death twice already:D

for harder sessions i take half a provon revive from Glanbia. I'll use a full one right after a race. I also drink about 500ml on top of the 500ml taken with this within 30 mins and have something like a banana in the first 15 mins. I usually train before a set meal so in the morning when i swim i'll have breakfast (porridge/museli/fruit n' fibre mix) within 30 mins or in the evenings ill have dinner after about 30 mins also

Tried High 5 recovery but didn't like the taste and didn't seem to get much out of it. I've been using Power Bar recovery powder since May and find it great. Choco flavour is pretty tastey..

I haven't gotten into serious pedalling yet but from my running experience I'd concurr with a lot of the milk drinkers here. Fantastic stuff. Lidl have Organic whole milk for around a euro a litre, otherwise I try to buy Irish.

I'm a great believer in listening to what your body wants. When doing some serious mileage in training I would usually have had some high cocoa chocolate and pint of water while stretching afterwards and then a good carb/protein meal (pasta beans fish whatever). For about an hour after a good run (say a 10mile or halfmarathon training run) your body is going to burn up anything you put in there so I wouldn't worry too much about the levels of carbs etc.

I was never one for supplements bar the odd cod liver oil and an iron tablet.

Most important thing is water, all day long, and after exercise.

For no particular reason I thought milk wouldn't be the stuff to drink. Glad to see it is. I love milk. I'm going to raise a glass to this thread.

ROK ON wrote: »

Can I ask, what is the reasoning behind Chocolate milk.

Protein in convenient liquid form, about 32g per litre.

I often make a shake from cocoa powder, milk, whey protein and a couple of bananas. Damn tasty, probably overkill on the protein, but I'm not exactly a serious athlete so I'm not fussed about precision.

ISTR recommendations are something like 1g protein per kg of bodyweight per day, depending on level and type of exercise.

velopeloton wrote: »

After ride, 2 oranges, 1 apple, handful of nuts, bread with Foie gras and a glass of red wine. Quick 20 minute nap.

I was gonna say that's very european of you. Then I looked at your location and it makes sense now.

espresso if we are going to be proper euro, there is no x in italian

poochiem wrote: »

if we're going to be proper Italian it's un caffé normalé - a normal coffee none of your Americano bathwater

There's nothing terribly wrong with Americano, provided that the hot water is presented separately in a small jug, and the drink is consumed with an air of mocking self-deprecation.

However, serious Euro penalties apply for cappucino or caffellatte consumed at any time other than breakfast. :pac:

What is the euro ruling on chocolate milk? Is it acceptable, tolerated, or classed as nonsensical modern science mumbo-jumbo?

lukester wrote: »

Should be consumed out of a suitably euro drinking vessel though.

Is a beer glass from a German micro brewery acceptable?

Poached eggs on toast and a glass of strawberry milk. It tastes good and its normal food!

2 measures lemon vodka
2 measures Cointreau
1 measure cranberry juice
juice of 1 lime
shake with ice

I find this aids recovery immensely.