i deffo advocate the use of a protein based recovery drink. and it is important to get it down you within about 20 mins of stopping. it will speed your recovery. esp if you want to climb two days in a row.
advocate the consumption of approx 450 ml of malted barley supplement after a training session. best accompanied with a sachet of corn-based scampi powersnacks.
generic homogenised domestic semi-imported refrigerated malt-based supplements.
Don't you druggies ever worry for your kidneys? All that additional protein that needs to be filtered and expelled in your urine . . . Also - I couldn't forgive myself using creatine and other suppliments when bouldering. I tried it once - only ever once - I took it a while before going cycling. My time from Cwm-Y-Glo into the Pass was p.h.e.n.o.m.e.n.a.l. I just seemed to be able to push and push and push with no tiredness at all. I don't believe this was placebo effect as I was a very heavy smoker at this time.It surprised me so profoundly I vowed never to touch the stuff again. This is too much of an unnatural advantage for me - rather like Perrin Juniors' snorting of cocaine before his ascent of Raped by Affection. A toss ascent in my book.Please - I don't mean offence w/this post & we're all adults.
For me it's more to do w/who I am and how I got here.I was forced to move and shake and learn to tie my own shoelaces very early etc.. I have an exaggerated sense of independence. I feel that science (other than reparatory materials: chondriotin etc.. and whatever 5.10 mix into Onyx) has no place in my activity.
Also, I am somewhat old fashioned and seasonal in my activity - abhor sponsorship, advertising etc.. and truly revel in my amateurism. Creatine makes a difference. Doubt that? Talk to Paul Higginson. Mind you, your style is different and largely climb on grit (I think I'm right about that) and doubt creatine benefits on this subtle and tenuous style of climbing. Lime? Most certainly. Very long problems? Definately. I just can't take over-the-counter drugs
How comfortable we feel knowing that perhaps we may not have made the ascents we have without these supplements is a personal matter between ourselves and the wind. For me it's unacceptable; and is not a matter of bodily abuse. Again no judgment, just expressing what I feel is right (a comment on this is conspicuous in its absence - in your post) I've not climbed 8B. I care not if it never happens as bouldering achievement never made me happy or any less insane.
Interesting discussion.