Torq Recovery Drink Strawberries & Cream 1.5 kg

Torq Recovery Strawberry 1500g. Replenish and repair with TORQ Recovery Strawberry 1500g. This advanced drink boasts a 3:1 carbohydrate to whey protein ratio, featuring multiple transportable carbohydrates for rapid refueling. Enriched with L-Glutamine for muscle and immune support, and D-Ribose for cellular regeneration, it´s designed to help you Rehydrate, Refuel, Repair, and Recharge after intense exercise. Each pouch offers up to 20 serves, with discounts automatically applied to any flavour combination. Each 1.5kg pouch provides up to 20 serves (depending on bodyweight). You can purchase any flavour of recovery drink from this page. Discounts are applied to any combination of flavours purchased automatically in your shopping cart.Highlights:- 3:1 Carbohydrate:whey protein- Part of the TORQ Recovery SystemTM- Glutamine for muscle/immune protection- Ribose for cellular regeneration- Multiple transportable carbohydratesProduct Summary:TORQ Recovery Drink is a highly advanced post-exercise nutritional drink formulation that has been designed to Rehydrate, Refuel, Repair and Recharge your fatigued physiology after heavy exercise. We call these the 4 R's:Product Usage:- The table below indicates how the recommended dose of TORQ Recovery varies according to bodyweight. The heavier you are, the more you will need, because larger individuals can strore greater amounts of glycogen and have more muscle to repair. This is of course represents one of the major benefits of using a focussed recovery product like this – you will always consume the optimal dose.- Body Weight Level Scoops Powder Dose Amount of Water- Up to 50kg 3 scoops 75g 300ml- 50 – 65 kg 4 scoops 100g 400ml- 65 – 80 kg 5 scoops 125g 500ml- Above 80 kg 6 scoops 150g 600mlYou should consider getting yourself a TORQ Mixer Bottle, but as TORQ Recovery mixes very easily, as long as you have a receptical with a watertight lid and some air space for mixing, that should work well too. Always add the level scoops of powder to the appropriate amount of water, not the other way round, and shake well to mix. Chilled water is ideal and adding crushed ice is even better! Once mixed, treat as fresh milk.Technical Information:TORQ Recovery Drink is a highly advanced performance product and has been designed to be used cumulatively as part of the TORQ Recovery System as exercise load/stress increases. TORQ Recovery Drink's benefits have been summarised above, but here we delve into a bit more detail. For reference, the numbers enclosed in brackets in this section point you towards specific research papers (listed at the bottom of this page) that support the claims we're making.Rehydration:It goes without saying that rehydration is an important part of the recovery process and the water you mix with the powder to make your drink will clearly help with this process. In situations where fluid losses are particularly high, your TORQ Recovery Drink will not provide sufficient fluid to comprehensively rehydrate you, so you should continue to drink pleanty of fluids after your recovery drink has been consumed. Remember that comprehensive rehydration in exceptional circumstances also includes replacing lost electolytes to restore homeostatic balance, so you might want to consider consuming TORQ Hypotonic after your recovery drink when dehydration is extreme.Refuelling/Replenishing Carbohydrate Stores:The body has a very limited amount of endogenous carbohydrate, stored in the muscle and liver. In total these carbohydrate stores equate to around 5% of the body's total energy stores, however carbohydrate is the preferred fuel source and during exercise can equate to over 50% (or more) of total energy expended, depending on the intensity and duration of the exercise (1). These limited stores combined with a limited capacity to absorb and use carbohydrate during exercise can result in them becoming almost completely depleted during an intense endurance training session or competition.Once depleted, the body can replenish these stores in around 24hours to full resting levels, provided sufficient carbohydrate is taken in (2), however this process can take much longer if inadequate carbohydrate is consumed. Due to the time it takes for the body to restock these stores during heavy bouts of training and competition, where sessions are completed with limited rest and recovery, getting sufficient fuel on board and stored as glycogen becomes critical to performance in subsequent sessions and has been shown restore exercise capacity more rapidly (3).Post exercise, there are two main phases to replenishing carbohydrate stores. Initially there is a very rapid phase which occurs independently of the hormone insulin and lasts around 30-60 minutes and this is followed by a much slower insulin-dependent phase which can last several hours. During this initial phase, the body is able to rapidly convert carbohydrate into glycogen thanks to the activity of the exercise-dependent Glut-4 transporter which works in a similar way to insulin. This, in combination with an increased exercise-induced insulin sensitivity, aiding the storage process further, makes it absolutely vital that the correct calories are consumed within the brief post-exercise window. Delaying carbohydrate intake by 2 hours or more has been shown to reduce the rate of carbohydrate storage (re-synthesis) by 50% (4) which is not advisable with another competition or hard training session looming! It is therefore important to make best use of this immediately after exercise by ensuring adequate carbohydrate and this is why we recommend that TORQ Recovery is consumed within 15 minutes of finishing exercise.So there is a well established need for carbohydrate post exercise, but how much is required and in what form? Due to the limited timeframe in which the body is able to rapidly store carbohydrate after exercise, it pays to make maximum use of this time and get carbohydrate into the body as quickly as possible. The most effective way to do this is by ingesting some fast absorbing high GI (Gylcocemic Index) forms of carbohydrate to ensure that it is delivered into the system quickly. High GI carbohydrates not only cause a rapid rise in blood sugar by delivering carbohydrate quickly, but also after the initial 'insulin independent' stage of recovery, it provokes a rapid release of insulin (the hormone responsible for the storage of carbohydrate) which further aids in the replenishment of the body's endogenous stores of carbohydrate. As discussed below, fructose, which although a low GI carbohydrate, also plays a part because of its unique delivery method however.Multiple-Transportable Carbohydrates:The speed of carbohydrate absorption can also be further enhanced through the use of multiple transportable carbohydrates (i.e. two forms of carbohydrate that don't compete for absorption in the gut) such as Maltodextrin:Fructose (as used in TORQ Recovery). Research by Wallis et al. (5) has shown that the use of Glucose and Fructose combined can give glycogen re-synthesis rates comparable to some of the highest reported in research. Further to this Decombaz et al. (6) recently demonstrated that using Maltodextrin and Fructose post exercise resulted in a two fold increase in the rate of carbohydrate re-synthesis in the liver, one of the major stores of carbohydrate. For short term recovery this has massive implications as a faster re-synthesis rate of carbohydrate will leave you fresher ready for the next training session/competition. The two very short video clips below demonstrate how glucose-derivatives and fructose use different carriers across the gut wall and how combining both alows greater overall carbohydrate absorption. The first clip shows how absorption through the gut wall is limited when carbohydrate is derived from glucose only.The second clip demonstrates how dual carbohydrate delivery utilising fructose significantly increases absorption.Continued Carbohydrate Consumption:In order to ensure maximum re-synthesis (storage) rates, research has pointed towards consuming around 1-1.2grams per kg body weight (7, 8) immediately after exercise. Anymore is unlikely to offer any further benefit and any less and it will potentially compromise the effectiveness of your recovery. This initial feed should then be followed up with regular carbohydrate feeding in frequent doses afterwards. This is where TORQ Organic Energy steps in as an easy way of increasing the carbohydrate content of food. This product is available separately and forms part of the TORQ Recovery System. You can of course use normal food, but the convenience of a product like TORQ Energy Natural Organic and the compact nature of the carbohydrate calories can make it an attractive choice. So, after consuming a recovery drink straight after very heavy exercise, especially if you plan to train hard the next day, aim to consume between 1-1.2grams of carbohydrate per hour for 3-4 hours. Research has also shown frequent (every 15-30minutes) provision of carbohydrate after exercise further stimulates the re-synthesis of the body's stores of carbohydrate better than at longer intervals, so little and often will help aid the recovery process (9, 10). Remember that the use of TORQ Organic Energy constitutes 'Phase 3' of the TORQ Recovery System, so its use only becomes necessary during periods of higher exercise loading.The Dual Role of Protein:Prolonged endurance exercise not only causes a strain on the body's carbohydrate stores, but also induces muscle damage and causes a breakdown of proteins within the body. The addition of protein to a recovery drink can not only prevent the breakdown occurring, but also increases the rate of post exercise muscle synthesis (11, 12), having an anabolic effect through offering substrate for muscle repair and aiding training adaptation. Protein synthesis and oxidation rates can be further increased through the use of Whey Isolate (the protein used...