-- Science will save you money
Economic uncertainty tends to bring out creative saving behaviour in everyone.
A little bit here, a little bit there – it all adds up to provide a safety cushion should things get really bad and you’ve got nothing useful to barter.
In this regard, food is a category ripe with potential savings available to the main household shopper. For example, forgoing filet mignon for chuck steak might require a few extra chews, but it won’t compromise nutritional value and yet delivers significant savings.
We’ve taken things a little further in our house.
Where once our meat patties were lovingly rendered from assorted offal and chicken giblets, these days we’ve captured fantastic savings, without comprising nutritional value, or great taste, with Fancy Feast Royale (just be sure to add a bit of cornflour and egg, to beef up your patties).
And this brings me to a significant column item on the great cycling spreadsheet – supplements.
To go without fattens the wallet, that’s for sure. But at what price? Just what is the real cost of being damned to the wrong end of an uneven playing field, languishing in sporting malnourishment and the torture of a dry mouth oxygenated with god-awful cat food burps?
Well, it doesn’t have to be this way.
In fact, it turns out that the average cyclist can have their nutrition and eat it, too. While the rest of the peleton is whooping it up on fancy adaptogens and fumbling with sticky over-priced gel sachets, the cost conscious cyclist should in no way be disadvantaged by this showy consumption.
With a little bit of thought and preparation, science-based performance enhancement is only a few ingredients and a blender away.
It’s time sporting performance enhancement was democratised.
So, I bring you my science-based high performance smoothie.
Again, I stress, unlike most of the supplements in your pantry, all ingredients are scientifically proven to enhance health and general performance.
Set-up blender and add:
- One banana (rich in vitamins and minerals)
- One medium sized beetroot, boiled till soft (nitrates contained in beetroot boost stamina by reducing the oxygen cost of exercise)
- One tablespoon of pure virgin olive oil (lowers the risk of heart disease, stroke and even Alzheimer's disease – which is especially useful for those longer rides when you can’t rightly remember how to get home)
- And a teaspoon of cod liver oil (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory)
Blend for 60 seconds, adding half a bottle of Heineken (fixes bonking).
The taste won’t be much, but it’ll work better than anything else you’re taking.
What’s more, it’ll get rid of that nasty cat food after taste.
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