2016 FITNESS CHALLENGE

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Quote: Originally Posted by NYJets

Researched and started taking maca and holy **** what a difference. This is the product I take: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=operasport-20 Tastes like **** and smells bad but it's easy to mix it in a protein shake or coffee and hide the taste, and its worth it. Immediately helped my energy levels tremendously both for workouts and just in life, and definitely seems to help with recovery too. I'm having better workouts but less soreness. Doesn't seem to be any side effects, If you buy raw maca some people's stomach can't handle it, but this kind shouldn't cause any problems. They say to start with one teaspoon a day and work your way up to 3, I did that pretty quickly and now I take one when I wake up, one pre workout, and one post workout.

Just bought some and have tried it in two different smoothies drinks the last two nights: a carrot-orange-banana-mango smoothie and a chocolate milkshake.

It was very present in both, and more tolerable in the smoothie (though there was more volume in that overall drink than the milkshake), but I hope I can acclimate to that taste because it is powerful and overriding. Plus, I don't want to get that much sugar every day so I'll have to find other items to put it in.

Haven't felt the effects yet, but it seems to have all health benefits so I'll try my best not to stop. Maybe I'll get back into protein drinks, especially when I'll have time to work out this summer (or about five weeks from now).