Supplements and such...

While I do eat a good variation of nutritious foods, I still do believe in giving my body all the best conditions for building muscles and coping with our long and hard workout sessions. So that's why I decided to splurge on some nice supplements to give me a bit of an extra kick!

I use VEGA's Sport-line of drink mixes. Before practice I use the Pre-Workout Energizer, during the training I use the electrolyte hydrator in my water bottle and after I gulp down the Recovery Accelerator.
Right off the first time I used them I noticed that the hydrator (or pink water as I call it) really did its thing; I didn't feel as perched after our 5 minute-full speed-spurts.


A few weeks in now, I gotta say that the Recovery drink must be doing its job as well, cause I feel like I get less of the achey thighs and cafs I used to get. But that could just be due to my muscles getting toned (or placebo effect).

As far as the flavors go, I do like the Pre-Workout Energizer (Acai Berry) but the Recovery Drink (Apple Berry) tastes nothing like any apple or berry I ever had! It's a weird sickly sweet flavor, but it's drinkable. I have had worse.
When it comes to the Electrolyte Hydrator I dilute it way more than the packaging recommends (since I blend it in to my drinking water) so I can't really say much about the flavor as it was intended. But the way I drink it it's really good. A subtle hint of raspberry is A-OK when you feel like you want to lick your own sweat of for hydration!

I bought them all from AmlaBerry, and they ship all over Europe at a pretty low cost!

Also, I've incorporated a new meal-plan for practice days. I load up with grains, potatoes or pasta durin my lunch at work, and two hours before practice I eat some nice raw food with lots of fruits and veggies and have a fruit smoothie. After practice I get some nice whole-grain sandwiches with tofurky, seitan sausage, tartex spread, sprouts etc... and drink some juice and some nice green tea. My tummy does feel a tad bit heavier going in to practice, but I can go longer and harder than when I did my all-raw days!

Now I'm off to prepare my evil pop-quiz for tonights practice! Mwahahaha

Gettin' Ready!

So being a vegan athlete is not really that big of a deal. A lot of the worlds top athlethes are. Still I get so many questions about how I manage to work out hard not eating any meat or dairy. Le sigh!

Today I thught I'd share my pre-practice routine to keep me perky and energized without being to heavy in my belly!

I tend to always make a nice, tall smoothie before practice. Today I made one with fruits and berries (one orange, one apple, some pieces of frozen mango, some frozen watermelon, a frozen berry mix with gojiberries & blueberries & stuff, some juice, some hemp milk, a tablespoon each of; raw wheatgrass powder, raw barley grass powder, raw spirulina powder and a teaspoon of maca powder). I tend so save a small glass of smoothie and bring it to practice to gulp down right after stretching as well. 

I also try to eat some fruit and raw veggies and some nuts. Today we had avocados so I skipped the nuts since the 'cado gives me plenty of good fats and oils. I should mention that I had a HUGE lunch today (which is also one of my practice-day routines).

My plate for the day

Happy, posing smoothie gulper!