[Closed] Recovery drinks (that taste good)

For goodness shakes stuff tastes pretty good.

A glass of milk.

Tea

Coffee

Tomato soup

Hot chocolate.

A sausage roll

Crisps

Icecream

Milkshake

Bag if chips

Can of coke

Cake

Biscuits

Just eat something its way mire sensible and actually enjoyable.

Milk and or nesquick

Instant malted drinks i.e. Horlicks by another name.

Milk

Beer?

Cider has vitamins AND minerals.

3litres of white lighting.

20 Embassy.

Any chocolate/banana/strawberry milk/milkshake. Very little difference between those and the commercial "recovery" mixes, unless you are training at a high level or elite athlete.

What are you recovering from? How long/hard are the rides and how often do you do them? You say "after long rides", but if you're not riding again for a few days then it's not as important to start refuelling immediately.

+1 for milk, or milk-based shake, such as Frijj or Yahoo.

Personally, I have a glass of milk and a handful of mini pretzels after a road ride or run that has been hard enough to require some kind of recovery nutrition.

Full fat Milk is as effective as anything else.

bearnecessities - Member
20 Embassy.

Kill or cure?

If you're at home then some milk with something in it will taste better than powdered stuff. I use a blender to put banana/Nutella/nuts in a milkshake.

When that's not practical, the Goodness Shakes stuff or OTE soya stuff tastes really different to SIS. OTE prob my fave.

For Goodness Shakes stuff tastes lovely.

Milk taste ****ing horrible. For Goodness vanilla is nice tasting.

Kuco - Member
Milk taste **** horrible

Said no on ever.

Just stand in front of the fridge eating things straight out of the packets and drinking stuff straight from the bottle. Only decist when your wife yells at you to stop 😉

no on?

IIRC despite a high profile set of stories about the powers of milk as a recovery drink based on a study funded by the dairy industry, it contains something which delays protein uptake. I think i saw that in a GCN video, but can't find it right now.

I like For Goodness Shakes chocolate powder.

It's this video, jump to 1:30.

funkmasterp - Member
Just stand in front of the fridge eating things straight out of the packets and drinking stuff straight from the bottle. Only decist when your wife yells at you to stop

Variation of this

Beer

or tea

Though I'm a coffee lover but tea is more refreshing after a ride.

I do love an STW supplements thread 😆

Really depends on what you are recovering for. You need to consider your recovery product in the context of your wider diet and how that fits in with your training goals.

Just stand in front of the fridge eating things straight out of the packets and drinking stuff straight from the bottle. Only decist when your wife yells at you to stop

This has been known to happen. You know you've taken it too far when you are eating butter with a spoon 🙂

For goodness shakes are just milk. Look at the nutritional content and it looks very similar, if not identical to normal flavoured milk - similar calorific value, similar amount of fat and carbs, similar levels of vitamins and minerals. I struggle to see what it has over milk. If it looks like milk, smells like milk, tastes like milk, it probably is milk. The marketing shpeel used to talk about how milk has been found to be the best recovery drink you can have, so For Goodness Shakes is milk with added oomph.

This industry is just full of so much BS it is hard to cut through it all and find the truth. Experts disagree and will point to studies that support their claims, so we have no chance of finding out the truth.

But why is everybody in such a hurry to recover? Recovery is a natural process your body does. If you're an athlete and are getting off the bike at the end of a hard mornings ride and, after a few hours break are going to hit the gym for the afternoon or go and run a half marathon, then fair enough, but if you've just got off your bike after your sunday club ride and are not doing anything else for the rest of the day and probably for a couple more days then why the rush to recover? It makes no difference if you recover in 1 day or 3 days unless you're doing some other form of very strenuous exercise.

In my limited experience, Torq banana and mango tastes OK. Wiggle banana tastes 'a bit funny'. The latter is half the price.

@wobbliscott, i assume you are aware there are quite a number of people on this forum that are indeed riding 5-6 days a week including some very intense work.
Don't really see whats wrong in wanting to maximise recovery so the next (and subsequent) sessions are better quality.

Milk and a banana. Anything else is just falling for marketing.

Chocolate nesquik made with full fat milk 8)

@wobbliscott, i assume you are aware there are quite a number of people on this forum that are indeed riding 5-6 days a week including some very intense work.

Allow me to step in.

@wobbliscott, i assume you are aware there are a hysterically tiny number of people on this forum, that are riding 5-6 days to a level that would require much more than a decent meal and a bit of a kip. Otherwise it's all bollocks

Might be bollocks but Torq Choc and Mint tastes pretty good, especially with a chunk of ice cream mixed in 🙂

So because the majority are fat lazy weekend warriors, then those that are actually interested in getting the best out of themselves deserve to be ridiculed.
Good to know.

In the meantime, my totally unscientific study of 1 has concluded a proper recovery drink works best, so will keep using it.

fifeandy - Member 
@wobbliscott, i assume you are aware there are quite a number of people on this forum that are indeed riding 5-6 days a week including some very intense work.

They do, and doesn't alter the fact there is an immense amount of BS in sports nutrition and recovery. There's a lot of money behind it and everyone has a different opinion with some vague evidence that seems to result the same as the other opinions. Pick one, seems to work, that's proof enough. Except pick some alternate, that works too. Which is right? None of them, all of them, or it just doesn't matter.

Actually, screw all that. I've found the perfect one, especially for me as a Ketchup addict 😀

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http://www.theonion.com/article/heinz-introduces-new-quick-recovery-sports-ketchup-56612

Torq, mix by rider weight, some great flavours

A relatively balanced mix of carbs & protein will see you right.

So, at a push a pint of beer & a bag of nuts.

For the high end stuff you'll neeed something with [url= http://www.torqfitness.co.uk/nutrition/torq-hmb ]HMB[/url] in it.

Bottom line is there is a difference between the 2, though for your average Joe it's probably not that important.

So yeah, something's better than nothing but nothing beats something that's tailor made for the job.

I have been using the SIS Rego chocolate flavour recovery after long rides, but my god its gross!

make it with milk, not water.

+1 for milk, or milk-based shake, such as Frijj or Yahoo.

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Long life milkshakes either uht or chocolate soya milk are under my desk at work.

I do have a tub of torq choc mint too.

Prefer real food but often fail to bring that to work and hard to keep it fresh.

Liquid, but if protein and carbs will see you right.

Re that chart up there... 50g of sugar in a For Goodness Shakes. Not a great choice, unless you want a lot of sugar.

Re that chart up there... 50g of sugar in a For Goodness Shakes. Not a great choice, unless you want a lot of sugar.

True, but taking Torq Recovery as an example, the recommended serving for a 65kg-80kg person is 125g of powder.

That contains 83g of carbs, of which 47.5g are sugars. 27.5g of protein.

So, a Frijj or FGS gives pretty similar sugars to the Torq stuff.

(I use various stuff - Torq Choc Mint when training hard/after hard sessions, various flavoured milks when doing lighter training loads)

That contains 83g of carbs, of which 47.5g are sugars. 27.5g of protein.

Yeah, really does depend on what you want from your recover drink. If you're competing in some multi stage event for example, then that might be fine. If it's part of a low sugar low carb winter plan then you'd choose something different.

That is quite a lot though for Torq. Looking at SIS Rego, only 20g of carbs per 50g serving, and only 5g of that is sugar. So for same serving as Torq you'd get 12.5g of sugar instead of 47.5g. Quite a different idea of "recovery". I'd say SIS looks better suited to day to day training, and Rego better suited to in competition recovery. Especially as most people's diets likely contain way too much sugar as it is.

Think the best bet is just to buy the bulk powders and tailor it to your needs. But it is a bit of a faff. Though if you are taking recovery products then you're probably serious enough about your diet and training for it to have given it some thought.

Erdinger Alcoholfrei or however it's spelt.

Says it's isotonic on the bottle.

Or if I haven't got any of those mars milk shake or tea and biscuits.

mrblobby - Member

Re that chart up there... 50g of sugar in a For Goodness Shakes. Not a great choice, unless you want a lot of sugar.

No wonder it's so bloody delicious. I've had a quick look online and I can't seem to find exactly how much sugar is in just straightup cows milk, opinions and definitions seem to vary. One site suggested that 40% of the calories in milk is from lactose.

Fridge method +1.

It's for winners !

how much sugar is in just straightup cows milk,

About 5g per 100ml in semi skimmed. All lactose.

For reference here, I think the recommended daily amount of sugar in a male daily diet is around 90g. One For Gooness Shakes is over half your daily allowance. Only a bit less than 2 cans of red bull 😯

Ambrosia Rice Pudding - maybe ?

You actually want a recovery drink full of sugar in most cases. The idea is to re-fill the glycogen stores as much as possible within 2hrs whilst the window is open for improved uptake = need a fast digesting carb.
Same goes for the protein, which is why they all use whey as its absorbed quickly.

The protein/carb ratios are certainly interesting between brands: SiS 1:1, High5 2:1, Torq 3:1 iirc.

Long Island Iced Tea. Best recovery drink going.

Alpro chocolate soya milk for the win - the nicest, chocolatiest milkshake out there, and it's soya, so probably healthy or something.