My pre-workout smoothie
Hey guys, I’m kinda spending some time on the Internet before I head for a loooooong run (15km). I’m training for a half marathon that’s happening in two weeks (read here about a previous one I did near Mount Fuji). I always get a bit nervous before running with a bunch of vegan runners — they are SO good and fast. I’m a slow poke.
But I’m fuelled up on one of Brendan Brazier‘s pre-workout blueberry smoothie. I followed the main tenets but tweaked it to make it more palatable to my taste.
Recipe:
1 cup frozen blueberries
1 date
1 frozen banana
1 tbs chia seed powder
1 tbs sprouted buckwheat (from Go Raw)
1 tbs raw cacao
2 cups green tea
1/4 lemon
1 tbs hemp powder
I subbed the two Medjool dates for just one soaked date (to make blending easier on my cheap blender) and one frozen banana (I like bananas in my smoothies). The recipe called for salba which is an heirloom variety of chia seeds but I just had regular chia seed powder at home. Yerba mate tea was also in the list but I subbed that with raw cacao. I also dislike putting coconut oil into my smoothies so I just swallowed a tablespoon of it with the smoothie. Fat is important to slow down the release of sugars in the bloodstream, by the way.
Basically a pre-workout smoothie needs 3 parts carbs and 1 part protein plus some caffeine which comes from the green tea. I like and follow role models but I don’t copy them exactly. I think it’s important to understand the concept and then just roll with it. It’s hard to get the same ingredients but I’m fine with that and just replace or skip those I don’t have.
RARRRRRRR- I’m ready to rock!
Update: I forgot to mention that I only drink this for long workout sessions. For regular 40-45 minute runs, I just scoff down a handful of prunes or a banana or blitz two oranges in my blender. I find that short sessions only really require simple sugars that fruit have.
Actually – If you consume fat and sugar together that’s the surest way to acquire candida overgrowth in your digestive system! Many of the raw food “guru’s” will tell you that you need to have lots of nuts and not much fruit, but they also suggest you spend all of your hard earned dollars on their supplements and health cures. Get yourself some information about SPECIES SPECIFIC diets if you are at all curious about raw foods. Just because it’s raw – doesn’t make it good for you.
I started years ago raw and believed all the hype about cacao, supplements & nuts too, but once you read information about Low Fat Raw Veganism, the 80/10/10 diet, food combining & Natural Hygiene, it’s pretty hard to ever forget that info because it all just makes such real sense! These solutions to health problems don’t require you to pay ongoing amounts of money for super powders and expensive concoctions, they prescribe the most efficient and wholesome diet ever described, LOGICALLY, and all it will cost you is the fruit and veggies you buy from your local market, or even grow in your garden (if youre lucky enough!)
If you are serious about devoting your life/health to something as hard to commit to (in today’s toxic society) as being Raw Vegan – even if you decide to continue the way you are eating, just first please familiarise yourself with Dr. Douglas Graham, Frederic Patenaude & Roger Haeske, so you have at least made an informed decision about your health. See what they have to say about being Raw Vegan and being an athlete (because the two are the perfect complement to each other!) I think it’s especially important that even though the latest fads are what originally get people interested in certain topics, it’s the duty of those that know enough information to truly help educate as many people as possible of the best ideas for their health. I don’t mean to sound like a “know-it-all” in any way either, i’d just love for you to see the results in stamina, strength, body physique & mental clarity that I have since I cut out the all the fat & supplements and went Low Fat Raw Vegan. From one aspiring athlete to another!
If you’d ever like to ask me any questions, don’t hesitate to email!
With hope & love,
Elle
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