SubscribeHow many of you, when mixing your powdered sport nutrition end up with a slurry of clumpy, unmixed product glued to the bottom of the bottle, that seemingly won’t dissolve, no mater what you do?
Annoying? Yes! But I have a solution to get it into solution 🙂
There’s more than 1 of you frustrated souls out there I know it! Because I used to be one. Until I figured out this sure-fire method for mixing that hasn’t yet let me down. I’m going to give instructions based on 1 bottle, but the process is the same for more (obviously).
- Collect your water bottles and lids, powdered supplements, measuring devices, near your water source before you start. Having a large time gap in this process almost guarantees problems.
- Fill the water bottle 50-60% full of water (or whatever your liquid substrate layer is – I almost always use water, I expect you do as well)
- Add 6 to 8 ice cubes
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- Add your powdered nutrition, electrolyte, aminos, supplements, etc. quickly after the ice goes in
- Once the powder and ice are in the water, get the lid on the bottle and shake vigorously. The ice cubes act as an agitation aide in the bottle and help to get the powders mixed quickly without clumping. Note, if you use a LOT of powdered supplements, you may need to do steps 3-5 multiple times with less powder in each step, than doing a lot of powder at once (which will almost guarantee problems again).
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- Once the ice cubes and water have successfully dissolved the powder, you can top off the bottle with additional water
Enjoy! This has worked flawlessly for me since I figured it out several months ago. I find it much easier than shaking my arms off 1st thing in the morning when trying to get that last bit of product to dissolve.
Try it out and let me know how it works for you!
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