G0LFII

I'm just curious to see what supplements people are taking and why they are taking it?

El Diablo Rojo

Hammer Nutrition:
HEED
Recoverite
Endurolytes
Gel

Enervit
Cheerpacks (race days only)

Powerbars

Vitamins
D/C/B-12/MAG/Fish Oil (Omega3)

nocondorfx

I have hammer recoverrite for after really killer rides
hammer gel for longer rides
GU gu20 i got for free- use it every once in awhile

s4one

Multi vitamins
Probiotics
Fish Oil
Whey protein

mattm

none

Machka 

I use something called, "Real Food" ... have you heard of it?

vger285

fish oil.baking soda

urbanknight

Much food grown today doesn't have the same minerals as they used to.

Machka 

And in many cases, that's actually a very good thing!

urbanknight

I said minerals, not chemicals. Chemicals are ever more present.

ridethecliche

I would say that some nutritionally essential chemicals and such are not present in some food, depending on how they're prepared and packaged. And some stuff that is present, isn't all that great for you.

Sometimes vitamins and such are lost in the packaging process, and those are pretty essential chemicals.

Machka 

Well, if I feel I need more mercury and lead and stuff like that, I'll get it elsewhere.

urbanknight

Now there's an idea. Mercury and Lead supplements.

Caribou2001

In reference to some of the above posts, yes the vitamins/minerals in "real food" are generally better for you (more bio-available) than those found in mutivitamins (especially the "budget" brands), but it's also true to most of the "fresh" food you can buy these days was picked *very* prematurely, and is seriously lacking in nutrients.

If you can't grow your own veggies, I personally feel that frozen is often the next-best, as these are picked and flash-frozen closer to ripeness to improve their colour and flavour, while the stuff on the produce shelf was picked way too early in order to survive shipping.

Either way, it's generally considered that a daily multivitamin can't hurt you, even though it's efficacy is not entirely clear.

But on to the OP:

Generic 1-a-day
Calcium/D
chewable C
whey protein

sometimes gel and or protein bars for (or after) rides

Psimet2001 

Hammer:
Daily multi-vitamin thingy
Recoverite

Ride stuff:
Heed
Gel
Perpetuem

Patriot

- Wellesse joint supplement from Costco.

Best joint supplement for the money I've ever used. Period.

- Beer

- Meat

- Chocolate Milk

- Chips & Slalsa

- More Chocolate.

That's pretty much it.

MrCrassic 

None?

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Enthalpic

You keep saying this but then you post about frequently drinking Ensure and taking Ca supplements. Ensure is a liquid multivitamin; accept it. Heck many fortified cereals are closer to vitamins than they are whole foods, yet people love to think they are eating better than what is essentially a multivitamin and a cup of sugar.

Machka 

I drink Ensure before my long rides ... that's all ... maybe a couple times a month.

I should take Ca, but don't because any vitamin/mineral pills make me sick to my stomach.

And I rarely eat cereal.

JonnyV

Twinlabs Dualtab multi-because they're the best multi I've found
Lipo-6 for fatloss/little energy boost
ElastiJoint-for the joints
ZMA-because when you workout hard these are some of first to be depleted and they help regulate the test to estrogen levels
IntraPro protein-because it rocks post-workout.
American Whey-because the IntraPro is too expensive to take 4 times a day
Anything else?

mattm

i'll have to retract my submission of "none" and admit that ensure is something i've tried, and liked.

for some reason randos love ensure!

Tariq08

60% of the time it works every time

Machka 

Because it goes down well at 4 am when we're getting ready for a ride. It also goes down well at the 380 km point of a ride when our stomachs are rejecting all other foods.

MrCrassic 

Oh, and if you want a quick energy boost pre-ride, look no further than God's best baked goods!

• Chocolate chip cookies,
• Brownies,
• CHOCOLATE CAKE

Yesterday, I ate a pretty big dinner (mom made it), and they had surprise ice cream cake waiting for me. Today, I rode into work like a champion. I ate half a brownie an hour before my ride, and I rode back home like a champion AGAIN.

Don't do it too often, though.

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BananaTugger

Pretty much.