post work out shake?

Most people I know either drink water or sports drinks while they work out. My question is, if you drink a protein shake during your work out. Do you still need to drink another one after? Ofcoarse the more protein the better. But i drink one during and I get pretty full so I can't always have one after. (Nlarge+2tbl spoons of flax oil = 840cal shake)

I've always heard that drinking a protein shake during your workout can detract from it because bloodflow gets rerouted to your digestive tract. Protein takes a lot of energy to digest. A sports drink is more often some kind of glucose mix like Gatorade because it gets absorbed quickly. Personally, I've had great results with just sipping grape juice between sets if I need it (the kind of carbs in grape juice are absorbed even faster than Gatorade). Normally, I just drink water. It's better to have a mix of protein and carbs for direct-after-workout shakes than to just have protein.

Space your meals every 3 hours, so what I do is have a meal consisting of Slow Digestive carbs, high protein comeing from chicken/ground turkey and an hour after I go work out which my training time is about 2 hours and that means right after I finish I bust out the plastic and start eating another meal of lean meat and carbs etc.... I hate protein shakes and if I take in a protein shake for a meal I still keep carbs seperate etc... You dont eat right you wont grow so if you can drop the protein shakes and bust out that carbs/protein etc..... I here most peeps to often talk about how they dont grow and need more stuff to take which still has no effect for them to grow... Calculate how much food you truly eat a week and it will tell the truth... I eat 30lbs of lean meat a week and 14lbs of potatoes and other sources of carbs a week and of course 14lbs of veges a week....... But its what my body requires to keep growing even when dieting down.... Protein shake becomes my emergency if I cant get to my meal or if I dont have time to cook........ But everyday when I get home from work its time to cook 6 meals which take about 1.5-2hrs but its worth it.

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I'd have the shake after the workout. And it would be a protein/carb shake, not a protein/fat shake.

Mix the powder in with some juice and eat a banana.

1 Banana
1/3 pack of choc. pudding mix
Choc. protein powder
milk
1 large tablespoon natural peanut butter
blend and this is very good and will thicken up in a few minutes, drinks like a meal. Got good fats and plenty of simple carbs.