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B.B.
What do you want to know, Han?
I know quite a lot...
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Hanneke
I was Hendo, I have let go of it now ;)
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Well, BB, do you think they are an essential thing for an athlete of whatever pursuasion?

I don't take any supplements and tend to go for fairly home made approaches to my energy intake at fell races and the like, while having a very good diet generally. So I am well fed and well hydrated all the time. Do you think there is a need for these things then? As I can't see it...
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Gobi
hwta ??

Protein powders etc have a place for recovery and meal replacement sometimes.

Depends how you use them
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Ok, meal replacement, as in when you cannot eat because you are running an ultra or something like that?

I just have a balanced meal after a race, rather than a protein drink, and I don't do protein drinks during exercise either. I have to say that so far about 98% of energy products I have tried have simply made me sick or have given me the runs... so I prefer natural products and just good meals and drinks.
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This has come up because my cycling coach thinks I don't eat and drink enough on the bike... so far I have been out with him for an hour and for 2.5 hours. OK, I put in a reasonable effort, but not full out hard. For the first ride I needed nothing, on the second ride I had one honeystinger gel and half a bottle of Taut energy drink with added salt... I performed fine, I did not bonk, so why should I take food supplements?
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Slowboy
you can eat all th eprotein supplements you want when on the bike and they won't stop you bonking.
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Slowboy
my typing is not so much afflicte dby typos as it is by misplace dspaces.
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Hendo
My tuppence re "ont he job" supplements is that I think most of us (with appropriate conditioning) can get through long runs or whatever endurance training on just fluids, but in the context of a training regime then the issue isn't getting through it, but how we recover, ready for the next session.

If I don't sip fluid every mile, and take gels on long runs, I am fine, but sore the next day. If I do do that (doodoo, lol), then I recover much quicker.

Nuun is very good as a non-carb rehydrating whatnot.
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Is uffer from tha t aswell Slow...

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