Best post workout mix?

Protein powder and creatine for me. I eat skinny cow ice cream sandwiches with that for simple carbs and to indulge what sweet tooth I have (honestly, not much of one).

Post workout nutrition timing is overrated. Getting some carbs to replenish glycogen is fine, but the biggest thing with protein is to have as close to constant availability. If you eat protein right before, timing afterwards is way looser.

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My question is more, is creatine sold as creatine only or is there some blends that include other post workout supplements like leucine and all that jazz

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There is some positive research with leucine, but I would never buy a blend.

For creatine (or really anything else) to work, proper dosing matters. Buying raw stuff and dosing yourself helps with that, and it is generally a good bit cheaper.

Also, if it says proprietary blend, run for the hills.

Creatine mono mixed into a half gallon of chocolate milk. This would be especially good for you to put some meat on your bones.

My current routine is

Breakfast - 1st lunch with preworkout and ZMA - Weights - 2nd Lunch with Nuun electrolyte tablet - 300 calories of LISS - Dinner with 5mg creatine mono (straight to the dome) and a sport Multi

Minimum 30g protein per meal and I attempt to front load my carbs.

I’m on a slow cut right now. I’m 195 @ 5’11 and have been leaning out while getting stronger and adding mass slowly. Strength gains are outpacing mass gains but that could be due to programming

All this and I’ve been in a slight deficit eating around 2000-2200 calories

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I ended up getting my protein plain creatine and BCAA's because they were 45% off. I know the BCAA's are in protein, but like I said I rarely use powder because I get plenty from whole foods.

I'll still look into other stuff, i just went ahead and ordered that because I got 125 servings for like $40 total

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Dude the one I posted was 200 servings for $20

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The creatine was $10 for 2.2 lbs (200 5g servings), the BCAA was like 25 for 125 servings and it was $5 shipping.

10 oz of regular Gatorade/Powerade (full sugar) mixed with 1 scoop of whey protein isolate (25 grams protein) and 1 scoop of Scivation Xtend

What's the point of taking creatine post workout when it takes days to get your levels up or down?

Also ZMA, the M is for magnesium which is amazing for better sleep. Take that before bed, not post workout.

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What's the point of taking creatine post workout when it takes days to get your levels up or down?

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It doesn’t matter when you take it, but likely post-workout you’re having a protein shake or something along those lines so it’s easy to add creatine in.