We have an excellent sponsor in Hammer Nutrition

It took me a long time to finally find something that works for me both as an energy drink while I am training on the bike and a recovery drink for after a long ride.  I had tried everything under the sun over the years and have been disappointed by it all. Either they all made me sick to my stomach or they had  no perceivable effect on me whatsoever and I felt like I was wasting my money.  Since Hammer Nutrition is a sponsor of the Sonic Boom Racing team and many of my friends have recommended I try them, I have been experimenting with a lot of their different products.  The results are that I have been very satisfied with three of them and now use them regularly.

The first is Heed. I use this both on rides and races where I know heat and dehydration might be a factor. It doesn’t have a sweet taste that turns my stomach and it really seems to work.  The second is Perpetuem which I use for longer training rides as a source of fuel and to combat the “bonking” factor. It’s like liquid energy. Lastly I use their Recoverite product as a post ride recovery drink.

I can certainly say that unlike other products I’ve tried, I have had noticeable benefit from all three of these drinks.  In particular, after a really long or hard training ride, when I would come home I could not for the life of me eat anything. Although I know I needed to, my stomach just would not tolerate solid foods for hours after which would leave me feeling worse and worse throughout the day and into the next.

I had been drinking chocolate milk and that did seem to help somewhat but I have found that I can easily drink and digest a large glass of Recoverite and it really did help. I am now a firm believer in it and recommend it to everyone.  It seems to help tremendously with recovering faster after a ride.  Without eating after a hard ride, the next day my body always felt drained …like I was run over by a truck. Now after two seasons of using Recoverite, I know I can count on it to help me recover in-between training sessions much quicker.  My legs would feel much less fatigued and sore the next day and I didn’t dread getting on the bike. I am a firm believer in all three of these products.

What is nice too is that once you order these products you can sign up for their newsletter which provide athlete education information about their products and the science and testing that go into their development.  Being a geek, I enjoy soaking up this information and feel I better understand how they work and how they are made to target certain things like dehydration, providing energy to you during exercise, and muscle recovery after a ride.  If you have not yet tried them, I really recommend that you do.  There are several people here on the team that seem to know them much better than I do and have been using them for years. But, I really am quite pleased with results so far.

I feel though we have an excellent sponsor in Hammer Nutrition, and you should give them a try. That may seem like a shameless plug for a sponsor I know, but I wouldn’t take the time to write this if I didn’t feel strongly about it.  Give them a try sometime.