[PhilABowl]

Whats Good?

I drink Optimum Nutrition's 100% whey gold standard... but I'm told that I need some carbs in there as well... What do you all like for post workout shakes, and why?

[ManInTheBox]

you could just eat two bananas and be good to go. if you want to take the liquid route, you could do one of several things. pick up some bulk dextrose, add enough for 40-60 carbs, drink up with your protein. you could buy an all in one such as universal torrent, which has dextrose, malto, and vitargo. what i do is take two scoops pure vitargo with bcaa's, eaa's, and glutamine. then, 15-20 minutes later drink up my protein shake (has been blueberry gf pro). been working great, and definitely settles more easily than the dextrose. all depends on your budget on what route you should take. if you need advice let me know.

[PhilABowl]

Budget isn't a huge concern.

Looking at my diet, just for today, with the FitDay program, heres what I have:

2,541 Calories (a little low for me)
66 Grams / 23% Fat
345 Grams / 50 % Carbs
144 Grams / 23% Protein

and it looks like I need to cut down on carbs and stack up on protein a bit. I also only ate 3 meals today... mainly because I slept in today with it being a weekend day.

So I'd like something that I can drink after a workout, something premixed that I can just throw milk in, shake it up, and drink it. Then follow it up 30-60 min later with protein.

[Markio]

ground oats

[MentalTwitch]

Post WO should be in water. Faster absorbtion. I had the Isopure RTD before and it's good. I know they have a ZeroCarb formula. I'm goin to try and pick up some Malto/Dextro to mix PostWO and also will be on Anabolic Pump so carb intake is key.

[pistonpump]

try kwik karb from nutraplanet. add in a scoop or two of that with 2 scoops of the ON whey and some bcaa's if you have them and youre good for post workout. I always eat a meal 1-1.5 hours after that.

[alan aragon]

whey + ground oats = yeah buddy

whey + ground oats + milk = YEAH BUDDAY

whey + ground oats + frozen strawberries + milk = WHOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!!!

[PhilABowl]

Are ground oats the same thing as oatmeal?

[jvb20]

here is my shake after i work out

2 scoops whey
4 egg whites
1 cup otmeal
1 cup yogart
and milk as much as you like

[FitModel]

I usually make a smoothie

Ice
2 scoops vanilla whey
3-4 strawberry's
10-15 blueberry's
1 packet plain oatmeal
4oz NF Milk
3-4oz Yogurt (Dannon Fit n' Light)

blend...

[precious_roy]

I go along with Alan's WOOHOOO route:

1 scoop chocolate whey
2 cups milk
1 cup ground oats
1 large banana

If you ground the oats fine enough it tastes like a banana-chocolate milk shake. Its quite yummy.

[rpen22]

Originally Posted by alan aragon

whey + ground oats = yeah buddy

whey + ground oats + milk = YEAH BUDDAY

whey + ground oats + frozen strawberries + milk = WHOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!!!

It doesn't matter whether they're ground or not does it, besides the fact that they're easier to drink when ground, right? I thought it was decided that particle size doesn't effect oats much.

I've been doing a whey shake and eating oats with it; adding a banana to that on high carb days.

[freqfly]

I use the same protein you do for my post workout shake except I throw in a half cup of ground raw oats for carbs. Does the trick for me.

[PhilABowl]

no one has answered this yet - are ground oats and oatmeal the same thing ?? Or is it oatmeal you throw into a food processor?

[PhilABowl]

no one has answered this yet - are ground oats and oatmeal the same thing ?? Or is it oatmeal you throw into a food processor?

[Nitrox]

Originally Posted by PhilABowl

no one has answered this yet - are ground oats and oatmeal the same thing ?? Or is it oatmeal you throw into a food processor?

Yes its is oatmeal that you either put in the blender with everything else or pre grind it in a blender or a coffee grinder.

[PhilABowl]

Sweet. On another note, I have been through several $20 blenders. I now have an $80 cuisinart that came with a frozen drink maker and cuisinart food processor attachment, purchased at Costco, and it is fantastic. It doesn't have that "cheap feel" of a ****ty blender. It also only has three settings - Low, High, and pulse. I dig that they think about it enough to realize nobody needs 12 different settings for a blender. and its powerful as **** also - when you put ice cubes in there, it REALLY makes crushed ice instead of slicing 1 ice cube in half and the rest being giant rocks.