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Themp who would waste money on some companies "fast acting carb and protein mix" when I can buy standard WPI powder and mix it with Dextrose which costs basically nothing. Any carb/protein combination package from a supp. company is usually a waste of money.
As for getting rid of the pain. After a while I find you stop noticing it completely, that is my experience.
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What you eat/drink post-workout is by far the most important meal of the day. I've read enough to understand the science behind it and I've experienced the difference that it makes when I get a proper post-workout drink.
The explanation is long and I would never get it exactly right anyway so here are a few key paragraphs from John Berardi's site:
"A couple of final factors need to be discussed. First, the research is very clear that if you wait to consume your post-workout nutrition, you lose (14). One study showed that if the post-workout beverage was consumed immediately after training, glycogen synthesis was three times higher than if the beverage was consumed just two hours later. So the sooner you drink the drink, the better the recovery rate.
Secondly, with respect to the types of carbohydrate and protein to consume, it's clear that immediately after training, liquid nutrition is best tolerated (8,15). Since liquid nutrition is more rapidly digested and absorbed, nutrients are more rapidly delivered to the muscle. In addition, according to the literature, the optimal carbohydrates to consume are glucose and glucose polymers, like maltodextrin (8).
As far as the best protein to consume, you want to choose a protein that is absorbed as rapidly as the ingested carbs so that the synergistic insulin response can be maximized. Now that's hard to find. Most intact proteins (yes, even in powdered form) take several hours to be fully absorbed. We need protein that can get absorbed within minutes, just like the carbs do. Without this simultaneous absorption of both, the insulin response will be disappointing. So what to do? Well, since one of the most quickly digested proteins is whey hydrolysate, it's the protein of choice for our purposes here (10)."
The rest of the article is here:
Solving the Post Workout Puzzle
You can chug WPI after your workouts until you're blue in the face but you will never experience the same gains as you will if you make the switch to a proper mix. This one change in my diet/supplementation has done more for me than anything I've ever done over the last 4+ years of lifting.