JayLow

Conventional male. Age 34.9 Height 192cm Weight 96kg (was 92kg for a decade and then mysteriously jumped to 96kg this year) Size 11.5 stompers 50cm femur Size XL Titan Cypher 120 Size 61 Fuji Roubaix Overeater, underdrinker.

Me too, please...

I tried IndieVelo out for the first time yesterday (Cape of storms), and it's almost indistinguishable from Zwift. Mainly less features and gamification, but perfectly viable as a free virtual training app. To me, it's the perfect solution - I cycle indoors less than 20x per year so I am too cheap to pay R300 a month for a subscription (on top of gym fees, bike maintenance, events, nutrition, permits, kit, etc, etc)

Took my newly acquired (previously loved) Cypher 120 Carbon Expert for a jaunt in the Bottelary Hills this morning. Feels good to finally join the Titan, carbon, and progressive geometry clubs in one fell swoop! Will need to make some setup tweaks, but I do feel I struck pay dirt on this one!

Interesting topic! Struggling to find unbiased sources for this, took a couple of minutes to get this one from Time: https://time.com/5581326/plastic-particles-in-bottled-water/ Highlights Microplastics are everywhere Causal link between (almost all consumer) plastics and negative health effects not established. There's enough to worry about, I am not going to put plastic onto that list.

There seems to be no strong evidence that suggests a causal relationship between whey protein and acne. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/does-whey-protein-cause-acne#whey-protein-acne

This reminds of when I learned that milk is a great alternative to sports drinks for endurance hydration. Would not be lekker if the camelbak became sour on a hot day in the mountains...

A quick google search shows that this is a myth, it drops in the short term but normalises again in the long term. The levels in your body will be lower (because you are not supplementing), but your body will not stop making it.

Anyone had some experience at pharmacies that they want to share?

Yea I use a combo of c/g and purity, I prefer higher purity because I want to avoid "fillers" but I will try this PSN for sure. Will set aside principles for price.

Woah PSN is hella cheap! Quite low purity at 67% for the whey, but at 25c/g it's almost half the cost of my current preferred brand, so I can 'stomache' the 10% of carb filler they have in there (probably to make it taste better)...

Golly! 6kg of creatine is 3 orders of magnitude above recommendations - talk about shi*tting bricks! Agree on the fly by night, this is why I always read the label and try to find something with 75% protein or more. And then yes, if one could bottle up the effects of 30min of consistent training per day you would build a business worth trillions. But the hard yards is not sexy. A sweaty, well-built influencer holding a shaker with the new hot supp on instagram is sexy. And you can consume media while consuming the supp - it's the dream! stress + REST = growth. (training + recovery = gains)

So true! Which is why you often find this kind of disclaimer on supps: "This unregistered medicine has not been evaluated for its quality, safety or intended use"

Supplementation is very subjective, unless it's medically prescribed or recommended because of high (10+ hours per week) training loads, so find what works for you but don't feel like you are missing out on performance. First, get enough sleep (not enough people understand how essential this is), then eat a balanced diet of whole foods (balanced is also quite subjective, depending on your own body), then train regularly, then start thinking about supps. Supps marketers makes it feel like you're missing out on optimal performance if you aren't taking their product, and it takes effort to shut down those voices.

This is a great example of one of those hyped up supplements with very little science backing it up. Currently most of the science is funded by the industry itself, and there aren't a lot of RCT human studies to back the claims. It's very expensive, and it might not even work, because it seems to get broken down into aminos in the GI system in any case. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/collagen/