I bought the TrueNutrition.com 38 Flavor sample pack.
Vanilla Birthday Cake.
I’m not sure how to describe it, other than yeah…. it was like a vanilla cake. I am pretty impressed at how true the flavors generally are. In the past I’ve had things that said they tasted like X but didn’t actually taste like X, so this is welcome to see accurate descriptions… especially on as fine-grained a difference as “birthday cake” vs. say just a straight vanilla.
This was pretty good.
I bought the TrueNutrition.com 38 Flavor sample pack.
Tropical Hawaiian Punch
Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse…. 🙂
Forbidden Fruit Punch was one thing… this was…. worse. It brought a pineapple and coconut type of flavor to the fruit punch. And while I adore fresh pineapple, candy pineapple flavors just make me wretch because it’s so far from the real thing. So sweet. So… fake.
But again, that’s just my palate. Oldest tried a taste and he really liked it.
He can have it. 🙂
I bought the TrueNutrition.com 38 Flavor sample pack.
Forbidden Fruit Punch.
The “lambada” of flavors. 🙂
Um…. no.
First thought through my head? Fruit punch and milk don’t go together.
Second thought? Holy crap, that’s pink! Remember when you mixed up your strawberry NesQuik according to the directions and the color was a pale pink and the flavor also pale? So you mixed in like 15 tablespoons more to get it really flavorful and really pink? Yeah… that sort of pink. Like it’s neon battery powered.
I’m not a fan of “fruit punch” anyways. Don’t really care for fruit punch flavored drinks or candies or anything of the sort. Just not my preference, so it’s no surprise that I’m not a fan of this.
It reminded me of eating Fruit Loops cereal, but I do like Fruit Loops (tho I haven’t eaten them since I was a kid).
But again, like all the whey flavors, there’s nothing really nasty about this. It’s just not to my personal preferences. And this one probably won’t ever be. I’d sooner drink the Java Mocha.
I bought the TrueNutrition.com 38 Flavor sample pack.
Java Mocha.
No.
I’m not a coffee drinker. I never really cared for coffee flavored things. I recall as a child my mom would get coffee flavored ice cream; this reminded me of that ice cream (I mixed it in cold milk). Again, not a bad flavor if it’s your thing, but it’s not my thing.
I bought the TrueNutrition.com 38 Flavor sample pack.
Chocolate Peanut Butter.
This was pretty good. The peanut flavoring wasn’t too strong… maybe like a 65-35 split in favor of the chocolate. It was kinda weird tho. My brain said yeah, that’s peanut butter, but there was something missing. Maybe texture? Brain wanted a Reeses Peanut Butter Cup but wasn’t getting the expected mouthfeel? I don’t know. It wasn’t bad, just weird. 🙂
I kinda wanted a bit more peanut butter flavor, but this was fine. I reckon if I went through 10# of this I’d be fine, but if it was any stronger, probably not. So, leave it alone.
I bought the TrueNutrition.com 38 Flavor sample pack.
Dutch Chocolate Fudge.
This is the first flavor that knocked my socks off. OOO… so good. Very rich, deep chocolate flavor. Not “candy like” sweeet or anything, but just good good good.
I like. I could see going through 10# of this. 🙂 And since yes I will be buying in bulk I have to think in those terms: something that tastes good that I could go through, not get tired of, still enjoy after 100 doses, etc.. This is the frontrunner so far. Yum.
I bought the TrueNutrition.com 38 Flavor sample pack.
Banana Coconut. Or maybe it’s Coconut Banana. I don’t remember.
Either way tho, it’s a flavor mix of coconut and banana… that same sort of artificially sweet “Now and Later” candy banana flavor.
And it marks the first flavor I flat out don’t like.
The flavors are fundamentally the same as I’ve already tasted. The banana here is like all the other bananas I’ve had. The coconut here is like all the other coconuts I’ve had. But putting them together makes something that my palate says “no” on. Maybe it’s your thing, but it’s not mine.
Don’t get me wrong. It’s not gross or horrible — so far none of the flavors are really all that bad. It’s just not something I could see wanting to drink much of again, by choice. Just too candy artificial sweet like.
Second day trying out sled drags with my DIY tire drag sled.
Start out light, start out easy, ease into things.
The Andy Bolton program I’m modelling after said for the first week:
As noted in my first day, I didn’t quite do that then. But today I got closer. I added one more rock (maybe 5-8#) to the tire. That seems to be enough for now. I made the 6 trips, 75+ yards, 45 seconds of rest. Note that the first trip is on a slight downhill, but the return trip is a slight uphill and oh, that really made things hurt. I really focused not on just walking and stepping, but trying to pull my femur by the knee-end back… thus really trying to engage my glutes and hams. Shit… I was burning. 🙂
I’m also going to add dynamic stretching to my warmup. I used to do these all the time back in my martial arts days and I could easily kick above someone’s head. Not that I really need to do that any more, but I’ve certainly tightened up and I’d like to regain some of my range of motion.
Oye. This will be good. I’ll stick with this weight and start dropping the rest times by 5 seconds like Andy’s progression lays out.
I bought the TrueNutrition.com 38 Flavor sample pack.
Coconut Cream Pie
I’m not really sure if there was much difference between this and the Coconut Cream, tho something wants to say this was a bit sweeter. But I’m not sure if that’s due to 1. it really is sweeter, 2. I had it in milk, 3. my brain wants it to be sweeter because of the word “pie”.
But like all the coconut flavors so far, the taste isn’t bad, but just not 100% to my palate.
Oh another thing…. all these flavors are whey isolate. I haven’t noticed any gastric issues. Whey concentrate, or any whey that requires more breakdown, generates well… more farts than one might care for. I haven’t noticed any of that yet with this whey isolate. But also note that sometimes when I mix with milk I’m mixing it with HEB Mootopia (Wife drinks this, it’s a “lactose free” milk; tho I usually drink the same as the Kiddos using whole milk), and that I also eat a lot of greek yogurt. So, it’s possible this has contributed something to my gut that is aiding in digestion. Hard to say, but I just know way way back in the day when I drank “all the whey” which I think was just whey concentrate, oh my… it was horrible. 🙂
My point in mentioning it is that the Optimum 100% Gold whey is a combination of concentrate and isolates and such, but also digestive enzymes. If I can buy pure isolate from True Nutrition and it costs the same? Fine. I don’t care about speed of digestion and other crap like that… taking whey after workouts and casein before bed for slow or anything like that. Meh. I just need to get a lot of protein in the day. Period.
I bought the TrueNutrition.com 38 Flavor sample pack.
Coconut Cream
This too was and stayed white.
As soon as I pulled this out of the box, I was bummed. I knew I’d have to mix it with water, but I thought it’d taste better with milk. But alas, I was in a hurry and had to get moving, so I didn’t swap for something else. I ended up having it in water.
It wasn’t bad, but I bet it would have been a lot better in milk. The cream flavoring and the milk would have gone well together.
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