Does anyone use Endurox as a post work-out recovery drink and if so, what’s the best flavor? Same for Accelerade during your work-out.
Good stuff, but there is no good flavor.
Fruit Punch tastes like cherry flavored battery acid
Orange tastes like suntan lotion
Lemon-Lime tastes like moose urine
That’s why I switched to Hammer SE. At least it tastes bland…
I use both right now but they taste like sh… You can choke down the Endurox after a ride or run pretty easily and I do think it helps with recovery. The accelerade is tough to drink while riding and you really can’t mix it because the flavor is strong. I am most likely going back to carbo-pro and gatorade but we will see. It may take me all summer to finish the can.
The only flavor I can tolerate is blue rasberry. That being said I don’t use the stuff anymore because it’s too sweet, i like gu2o myself.
I mix the Endurox Fruit Punch with water, and it’s not bad. The Vanilla and Chocolate are decent, but I mix them with milk. Tastes better if you let them sit in the fridge for a while, i.e. mix it up the night before and use it after a morning workout. Seems to go into solution a little better. The Raspberry Endurox is decent.
The new and improved Lemon Lime is my flavor. Of the options available, that one tastes the “best.” Very earthy with a hint of moose urine and a slight aroma of Sir Issac Lime Otterpop. I mix it pretty weak as the recommended amount has too robust of a bouquet for my sensitive pallet.
Endurox is an acquired taste. I like orange. Use really cold water and drink it before the water gets to room temp.
Accelerade’s taste I haven’t acquired.
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“Lemon-Lime tastes like moose urine”
How do you know what moose urine tastes like?
“How do you know what moose urine tastes like?”
There was a significant wager involved…
Seems like Hammer SE is pretty pricey. I like the Hammer products as I use their whey protein and their Hammer Gel. I haven’t tried the Sustained Energy as it’s price tag has kinda’ turned me away. Maybe I should reconsider. I think about how much $$$ I spend on supplements just to be an M’OPer. Maybe I should just buy some Human Growth Hormone and EPO.
Personally I have no problem with the flavors. We are not talking chocolate covered rasberries here, but not horrible either. Accelerade doesn’t seem to do any more for me then Gatorade or anything else. Endurox works great. I have a bottle after a really hard workout or after lifting for the first time in a while and I am not sore or tired the next day.
Actually, Fruit Punch Endurox with water and lots of ice in a blender after a ride is quite tasty.
Endurox is just ok as a recovery drink, agree with the others that it is too sweet, and it is, at best, an acquired taste. I’ve used fruit punch and orange, neither is particularly tasty. I much prefer Hammer Recoverite, as it is very mildly flavored, almost too light.
I used to use Accelerade (orange or lemon-lime) and then couldn’t understand why I would get GI issues during races. DUH - it was from the Accelerade, apparently the whey protein they use gives many folks (me included) gas and other GI issues. Not fun.
So, now I use Perpetuem, same story as above, almost too lightly flavored (at normal concentration, I use approx 2.5 scoops / 28 oz water bottle), but no digestive problems whatsoever.
You can often find Hammer products at online Tri places and get 'em cheaper w/ a coupon of some sort. That 15% off deal from Hammer when somebody whom they ‘sponsor’ gives ya their code (can you say Amway?), only works once.
You get what you pay for…
I used Endurox for a while and hated the taste. I feel like I do better and recover faster with Hammer SE. I suppose it’s more expensive than Cytomax, but at my age I want the best nutrition money can buy…
I also use their Recoverite and protein
I enjoy cold endurox and accelerade (fruit punch) however there is nothing more disgusting on the face of the earth than warm fruit punch accelerade. I was on a ride the other day (a hot one) and my second bottle was so foul that I couldn’t drink any of it.
I’m working through a can of Accelerate that I get less and less tolerance for each time. I like the new Powerbar Recovery/Endurance stuff. Not too strong. But I can’t buy it until I finish the old stuff. Regular old powder Gatorade is still good, too.
I use Endurox Lemon Lime for recovery. Cold water is best and absorbs faster. There is better out there but Endurox is readily available for me, it’s cheap, and I trully believe it works.
I hate Accelerade.