UltraGen - TRAKKERS

4/1/2010

triathlete

GPS Coordinates

29.5352287,-81.5625000

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Ultragen Review & Contest

by: Joel Strickland

Just returned from a nice spring break trip with the family to the Sarasota, FL area. A couple of good stories to tell, but I’ll save those for future posts. Today’s post is the long overdue product review and a contest!

It seems like a couple of months ago I placed my first big order with First Endurance. I busted the bank, and got one of just about everything on the menu. I’ve been enjoying EFS Drink. I also bought Pre Race and Optygen HP, but haven’t used them yet. I also bought a case of Liquid Shot – but each Liquid Shot packs in about 400 calories, and I haven’t done anything that requires that kind of nutrition yet this year. More to come on these products later on this spring. I have used Ultragen several times.

Ultragen is touted as the most advanced recovery drink. If you read the literature on First Endurance’s website, you’ll find tons of good information about the product (including how Ultragen gives you 320 calories, 60g of glucose, two types of proteins, and vitamins, minerals, glutamine and branch chain amino acids). More importantly, you’ll learn that Ultragen is a recovery drink intended to be used in the first 30 minutes following a tough workout. Here’s the rub…I think this stuff really tastes GREAT! I bought the cappuccino flavor, and damn…

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Categories: Nutrition, Triathlons
Tags: Contest, first endurance, Nutrition, Tri-Swim, UltraGen

3/10/2010

triathlete

GPS Coordinates

Royersford, PA

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Product Review; UltraGen Recovery Drink

by: Andy Rosebrook

This winter I have been conducting an experiment to see if I could prove if UltraGen would make a difference for me, a middle aged MOP AGer. I started using UltraGen in December. I have tried two flavors (Fruit Punch and Orange Creamsicle) and the flavor grew on me (I prefer Orange Creamsicle), they also have Cappuccino. I drank a water bottle of UltraGen within 30 min after my last workout of the day.

Prior to starting I took some baseline data for comparison:

Vitals Age 39 Weight 169

1) 40 K time trial on my CompuTrainer: 1:04:14, 24.84 miles, ave 260 watt,s and ave BPM 170 Max BPM 191
2) 90 min HR ride on CompuTrainer: 1:30:00 30.30 miles, ave 160 watts, HR 115-124 max ave 118 BPM
3) 5K : Ran my post 15 year layoff PR 21:12 this morning (11/28/09). No HR data (didn’t bring my watch).

While I haven’t done a 5K since Nov, I have seen noticable improvement on the other two.

1)40 K time trial on my CompuTrainer 1:00:36, 24.84 miles, ave 280 watts, and ave BPM 159 Max 172 (Better yet I ran 7.7 miles about 2 hours prior to this ride)

2)90 min maintaining 120 BPM or lower went 30.82 miles Ave watts 170, Ave BPM 119

I have also clearly noticed how much fresher my legs have felt the day after a hard workout. I have had 3 of my…

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Categories: Nutrition
Tags: Recovery drinks, UltraGen