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Ok guys, need ideas on how to 'enhance' the flavour of my unflavoured whey. I've been able to take it with just water for the last few months but it's been getting harder and harder drinking it. I knew I should have got flavoured whey, but the 5kg tub I bought was a very good price. Any suggestions as to what I can add to it to disguise the taste? I tried orange juice yesterday and started retching after I finished it.

Anything that could make it taste minty I'll be cool with. Also if any kind soul could help me out with vitamin tablets, CW suggested these

Chong Warrior said:
As there was a big discussion in here before about vitamins I thought this would be a good place to post this. Was looking about earlier and stumbled across these multi-vits

http://www.sports-nutrition.net/store.php?sub=3&id=12

These are possibly the best I've come across considering the price. £7.99 for almost 2 months worth. You could even just take 1 a day and get over 3 months from them!

They aren't as strong as the only other multi-vit that I recommend the ADAM's men's multi but the ADAM's are also padded out with stuff you don't really need and they cost about £12 per month so are a lot more expensive.

So the all-in-1 all 25 is a great price, high quality with sensible quantities. 10/10 from me. :cool:
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but my dilemma is that the delivery alone will cost me £14.99! :eek: Another case of companies ripping off us folks from N.Ireland. I could pay someone in advance to get me these and then post them over, I'll cover all costs. I refuse to pay £14.99 delivery for something costing £5.99. Or alternatively, if someone could suggest another retailer that stocks these. Any help appreciated. Cheers. :)
 
Linoge said:
Ok guys, need ideas on how to 'enhance' the flavour of my unflavoured whey. I've been able to take it with just water for the last few months but it's been getting harder and harder drinking it. I knew I should have got flavoured whey, but the 5kg tub I bought was a very good price. Any suggestions as to what I can add to it to disguise the taste? I tried orange juice yesterday and started retching after I finished it.

Anything that could make it taste minty I'll be cool with. Also if any kind soul could help me out with vitamin tablets, CW suggested these

but my dilemma is that the delivery alone will cost me £14.99! :eek: Another case of companies ripping off us folks from N.Ireland. I could pay someone in advance to get me these and then post them over, I'll cover all costs. I refuse to pay £14.99 delivery for something costing £5.99. Or alternatively, if someone could suggest another retailer that stocks these. Any help appreciated. Cheers. :)
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Try using skimmed milk - will taste better than water, also things like nesquik, penut butter and fruit can be used.

Mints? :p

Get Adam's from OutletNutrition.com, its $49 for four months worth, which ends up at about £6 a month, not bad :)
 
Unfortunately I don't like milk, haven't drank it since I was 8yrs old. :p

What I had been doing for a while was using one scoop of flavoured whey (choc mint) with 2 scoops of unflavoured, it was alright. But that ran out ages ago. Is there something like nesquik that I can just add to the water with the whey to make it taste better?
 
MTA99 said:
Quark is always unflavoured, what most of us do is add a hot chocolate powder called Options. It'll be with the tea and coffee, near the drinking chocolate. It comes in small sachets in various flavours ~22p a time. Choc orange is the best but choc mint is also good. I've tried some of the other flavours and they're not strong enough to mask the natural sour taste of the quark.

The options is low cal, low carb so don't worry about "gaining fat" ;)
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I can't find this "quark" anywhere. I've checked Tesco, M&S, Morrisions etc but nope.
 
Anyone know what I can mix with creatine to get an "insulin spike" post workout? I've heard dextrose is good, but don't have any idea where to look for that.
 
churned said:
Anyone know what I can mix with creatine to get an "insulin spike" post workout? I've heard dextrose is good, but don't have any idea where to look for that.
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Maltodextrin is best but sucrose (sugar) will work fine too. For bulk maltodextrin you can get a 5kg tub from www.discount-supplements.co.uk for like 15 quid. Be careful though, insulin spiking can lead to weight gain and reduced muscle mass when overdone. General consensus as i understand it is to spike no more than twice a day on training days, once or not at all other days. The main thing is to get maltodextrin or sugar into your post workout shake in fairly large doses, this is a critical anabolic stage.

EDIT: ignore that link, MyProtein do it for £3 odd a kilo, great price http://www.myprotein.co.uk/bulk-powders/carbohydrates/
 
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Im looking for a specific cutting diet. Gonna keep my weight training just to preserve muscle, safeguard so I don't lose any. Added in more cardio though.

Basically I want to lose body fat. With enough dedication it can be completely lost to a very good body fat percentage level. So for the diet im needing some help. First off I'll post up what I've got in mind, it's a rough idea.

Breakfast - Bran cereal or porridge or 2 eggs with a slice of toast (wholemeal)

Lunch - Tuna on a wholemeal sanwich (2 slices) with smoothie roughly pint sized, home made containing around 5 pieces of fruit or more (banana, peaches, kiwis, plums, strawberries etc) My five a day ;) :p.

Dinner - Rice (brown rice?) with possibly chicken or steak and some boiled potatoes. Other varients such as baked potato with some pasta filler or corned beef? and other days vegetables such as brussels, brocoli, cauliflour etc?

Now im sort of at a stand still. For the in betweens eating every 2-3 hours, if I eat fruit is that good enough? Also drinking ONLY water, around 2l or more a day. Also what to eat for supper or around 10-11pm? I suppose 2 wholemeal slices of toast with that quark cheese (if I can actually find it :( in tesco) but would that be too many carbs due to the bread per day?

Cheers.
 
$loth said:
I'd have a bit of fruit, but maybe make a small sandwhich, have half of it between breakfast and lunch and the rest between lunch and dinner.
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Hmmm, imo on a cutting diet id steer clear of complex carbs (like bread) after about 2pm. Sandwich mid morning would be ok but stick to fruit or veg between lunch and dinner and try to just have a protein shake before bed.
 
Ultra_Extreme said:
Hmmm, imo on a cutting diet id steer clear of complex carbs (like bread) after about 2pm. Sandwich mid morning would be ok but stick to fruit or veg between lunch and dinner and try to just have a protein shake before bed.
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Fruit it is. Yeah I wanted to try limit my bread. I only have wholemeal but what do you rec how many slices of wholemeal bread a day is good for a cutting diet? im having around 3, alough sometimes 5 because at 10-11pm I have toast. But are you saying at 10-11pm I should just have a protein shake and that will be fine yeah? can you buy protein shakes in store, there is a body building store near but was just wondering if it is possible or you gotta buy tubs and make them up. An example cutting diet for a day would be great :).

Cheers.
 
A2Z said:
Why?

What if i go to the gym at 7pm?
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Yeah when I think about that I usually go to the gym around 12pm. But now since I start going back to college, two of my days are going to be bumped up to around 6:30-7PM. That wouldn't affect anything would it?
 
Is there some sort of calculator where i can input my weight and get some sort of guide on how much calories I should eat per day for the bulking phase?
 
I need some more advice. Basically im no doubt going to add another day in at the gym on mondays which will be for pure cardio just to burn more fat etc so my routine per week would look like:

Monday - Gym
Tuesday - Gym
Wednesday - Rest
Thursday - Gym
Friday - Rest
Saturday - Gym
Sunday - Gym

Each day (except monday) would be my weight training followed by 20-25 mins of high resistance cardio. Monday I want to make my cardio day, that wouldn't be over-training would it?

Also what can someone reccommend I do on monday for cardio, I find the cross trainer burns the most calories but sit on it for an hour? bit much?. How long should I stay at the gym for on monday? and also what can you recommend that I do for that time?

Cheers.
 
SK07 said:
Monday - Gym
Tuesday - Gym
Wednesday - Rest
Thursday - Gym
Friday - Rest
Saturday - Gym
Sunday - Gym
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Would be better doing:

Monday - Gym
Tuesday - Gym
Wednesday - Rest
Thursday - Gym
Friday - Gym
Saturday - Rest
Sunday - Gym

With your routine you've got 4 days straight saturday to tuesday, whereas the one above it 3 days/2days/3days/2days. Of course it all depends on your commitments.
 
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