Supplementing your daily diet with protein shakes is an effective way to lose weight. Indeed protein has been linked with a temporary boost in metabolism boost in metabolism and a suppressed appetite suppressed appetite. Protein shakes are also great for bulking up or toning your existing muscle. However, having the same shake every day can get boring quite quickly. In this article I outline how you can make your protein supplements a little more interesting and provide a couple of quick recipes.
A great way to spice up your protein shakes is to add fruits such as apples, oranges and mango juice. Milk is another good addition with regular milk, soy milk and rice milk all interesting options. What’s more these additions to your protein shake help pack in extra nutritional value. Frozen fruits are a particularly good source of nutrition because they keep their nutritional value for extended periods. Plus, they can be used as natural ice cubes to give your shake body and thicken it up a bit. There are many more things that you can add to your protein shake. Just let your imagination run wild.
If you are struggling for inspiration here are a couple of quick recipes:
1) TANGERINE CREAM:
- 12 oz. Tangerine Diet Rite
- 4 Ice Cubes
- 1 to 2 tablespoons heavy cream
- 1 to 3 scoops vanilla protein powder
2) ROOT BEER FLOAT:
- 1 can Diet Root Beer
- 1 to 2 tablespoons Heavy Cream
- 4 ice cubes
- 1 to 3 scoops vanilla protein powder
I hope this article has helped you realise that you do not have to stick to the tried and tested chocolate, vanilla and strawberry flavours with your protein shakes. Protein shakes can help you lose weight, tone up or bulk up but that does not mean they should be bland and uninteresting. Mix it up a bit and get creative or if you prefer check out these additional protein shake recipes.
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Excellent ideas there tom, just having the powder wheys with the manufacturers blend can be a little sour of tasting, I had berries, apples and bannanas to help with slow release of energy throughout the day.
Thanks
Chris
Sounds good Chris. I used to add banana to mine when I had a blender but I’ve not had one for a couple of years so now I just stick to the powder with either water or milk.
I wouldnt have a blender, but did win it, its an awsome machine. Many thanks for the reply your site is awsome, really love the content, can I use some of the information on my main site to support my guys training information. Maybe you can suggest a few.
Once again Thanks Tom.
Chris
Hey Chris – I’m happy for you to reference my blog posts and use parts of them on your website. However, I want the posts to be unique to my blog so would appreciate it if you didn’t re-publish any full posts.
As for post suggestions my personal favourties are the ones I did on jogging. Check them out and let me know what you think.
Tom
Thats awsome stuff and I will be sure not to post the full articles, I am going to create a blog on sportandsupplement.com once I get a few minutes to myself.
Regards
Chris
Hope the blog goes well Chris. Good luck.