Diario de notelaine, 25 abr. 16

i go for dark bittersweet chocolate :)  

10gms BCAAs + Large Fountain Diet Coke + One Small Grannie Smith 

Using "Purple Wrath" for BCAAs. Too sweet for my taste; many love it. 

I've already got some non-flavored BCAAs, but I'm really just looking for an easy one-scoop powder to take. I work out at 5 am, so I get up at 4:30. No way I can get myself to eat solid food at that hour. 

I hear you. I lift in the afternoon. When I was going in the morning, I would prep a giant iced coffee the night before. Nothing else. What's your non-flavor BCAA? I was just going to go shopping. 

Can't leave the gator alone can ya? Just saw you guys were at it again last night. 

I use Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard Pre-Workout - one scoop has 175mg caffeine 

I also add non-flavored BCAA's to it. 

Lol, I just get sucked into the nonsense. It's hard to walk away.  

Thanks HCB! I'll check that one out. And Jimmiepop, I use the Optimum Nutrition unflavored BCAAs. Tastes horrendous. I take it like a shot of tequila: lick salt, take shot, bite lime.  

thx. that explains why the grape lemonade flavor tastes like shit too... 

Yea, it's really bad. Like, full body shiver if you don't mask it with something.  

I know. I been holdin' back in hopes that we might see some, uh, dissipation of activity... 

My inner carb snark is getting pretty hungry at this point, though... 

I add the Bcaa;s to my pre-workout mix, and then again with glutamine in the protein shake. Never taste it! 

My unflavored BCAAS is from "Ultimate Nutrition" not to be confused with Optimum Nutrition. Two separate companies. Weird. I get ON for the Pre-workout and other stuff. 

HCB, any flavor reccomendations for the pre-workout? 

I tend to avoid the citrus ones because they seem to give me heartburn...I liked the Watermelon and right now I have Fruit Punch. They are sweet but I tend to use 12 oz if water - not 8 oz like they say. 

Carbon Prep by Layne Norton is a super solid product and does not contain any caffeine. Both flavors currently available are OK but not great.  

2 cups of coffee/tea? I used to do the whole Pre/Post WO thing, even made my own stack for about 6 months and I eventually realized that coffee by itself is just as good as any thing I can put in a shaker. I thought I would loose some umpf, but I'm performing just as good or even better than previously. Got more money in my pocket and more time on my hands...