Shakeology arrived yesterday with much anticipation, but little fanfare – just a ring on the door from the UPS guy. Eagerly opening the box, I was pleased to see a zip lock pouch, which is great for “green packaging” and not loading up our landfills with more plastic containers.<\/p>\n
The contents, as we all know from the website are outrageous, but the bottom line is taste. I would say that if you had someone blindfolded and put a glass of chocolate milk and a glass of chocolate Shakeology in front of someone, they wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. The real test was giving Grace her afternoon chocolate milk (1% milk and a little chocolate Meal Replacement shake) made with Shakeology and she actually drank it and liked it. As I said, to me it is like chocolate milk and I just tried a little to taste it.<\/p>\n
What I put in my body is intended to fuel it and, if possible, enhance performance in my training. The real test came this morning when I decided to have 8 ounces of 2% milk with a scoop up to the line (I don’t know if that is a scoop or full is a scoop) of Shakeology at about 5:30 this morning. I had nothing else to eat before my run (I had some coffee and water as I always do) and started running with John at 7:00. With no other factors contributing to my run (in fact dinner was pretty poor last night and I was apprehensive having had a stomach virus go through the family during the week), I had a great run and actually hung with John the whole time. Normally, I worry about John having a sore neck from turning back to talk and project his voice that far back, but today we talked the whole time and I was pretty much stride for stride.<\/p>\n
The bottom line is that we ran two minutes faster (1:05:15) on a loop in the foothills at 6,000 feet that we had done before and the first field test was a great success. I can’t wait to do more “testing”!<\/p>\n
Shakeology arrived yesterday with much anticipation, but little fanfare – just a ring on the door from the UPS guy. Eagerly opening the box, I was pleased to see a zip lock pouch, which is great for “green packaging” and not loading up our landfills with more plastic containers. The contents, as we all know […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1598,358],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized-posts","tag-shakeology","tag-shakeology-testing","czr-hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n