Recovery Drinks

Nutrition
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For me it’s a smoothie! Kale with Banana
Ingredients

  • 2 Kale leaves
  • 1 Banana Ripe banana
  • 1 Apple
  • 1 Celery
  • 1 Kiwi
  • 0,5 lime juiced
  • 1,5 cups water
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Here - Kale Banana Smoothie
Delicious!

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I’m lazy so I go with a SiS REGO Rapid Recovery shake. I always feel good after it, and like garbage when I don’t have one so :man_shrugging:

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Get more sleep, drink lots of water, taking protein pre or post-workout and superfood smoothie are all some good sources for you to recover.
You need to drink healthy superfood smoothie for high energy workday.

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Anything under 90 minutes or so I’d probably just have water unless I’d done the workout on an empty stomach in which case I’d have something a bit more nutritious.
Longer workouts I’d either have some food with water, and/or I’d make a smoothie (banana, milk, frozen berries, spinach, maybe some protein powder and/or peanut butter, whatever else is in the fridge!).
And a piece of advice, almost ruined my blender trying to crush nuts, so be careful when adding 'em to the smoothie.

Thanks for sharing! Tried this recently, and liked it.
The trickiest part was to add almonds, as I’ve stated above - they were too hard for my blender (specs, 800W just in case) to handle. Next time I’ll use coffee grinder.

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I can’t say I’ve read all posts but the ones I did read only focused on the ride they just did and was recovering from. I think it’s very important to think about next ride. I ride every day, 12-22 hours a week and have a straight forward thinking when it comes to recovery drinks:

After a hard/long ride: protein
When a hard/long ride is upcoming: carbs

Therefore no protein after a recovery ride but if I have 5 hours of zone 2 the day after I take the carbs. Back to back hard/long rides I have protein and carbs.

I use flavoured whey protein powder and maltodextrine as my carbohydrate source. I usually but what I need from bulkpowders which is waaaaay cheaper than buying from SiS, High 5, Maurteen etcetera. It also tastes great in my opinion.

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What maltodextrine powder do you like/trust?

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I make a pumped up chocolate milk:
I premix and just use the pre-made powder.

Ovomaltine (2 table spoons)
Cacao powder (1 Ts)
hemp protein (15g)
whey protein (20g)

And i mix this with date syrup (1ts) and oat milk (1/2l - i used to make mine but now just use shop bought… :expressionless: )
520 kcal, 76g carbs, 12.5g fat, 24g of protein

This is usually followed 30 to 60 mins later by my triple B:
thick slice of brown Bread, 50ish g of Biltong and a Banana