- Morning Trainiacs, every time I say,
y'know, I think this is gonna be the last ride
outside this year, well,
Mother Nature goes and surprises me
and I think I can get out there.
This is really, really pushin' it,
we're at like five degrees Celsius, which is, er,
forty Fahrenheit, and a little rainy.
Totally worth it!
(jazzy, upbeat music)
I love gooses, see the gooses!
Alright so, Trainiacs, first things first,
if you wanna get yourself some awesome
Scody Trainiacs gear, we got this fleecy, insulated,
thermal jacket, we got a full Scody kit,
we have the Scody Triathlon kit, we got arm warmers,
we got, I think, knee warmers, all in the Scody website,
that is linked in the description below.
Trainiacs, you might know that, I don't really care if it's
this or something else, but after every single workout I do,
like within 10 minutes of it ending,
I have a shake of about 120 to 180 calories,
in a four to one, carb to protein ratio, ideally no fat.
Huge benefits to replenishing your muscle's glycogen stores
immediately after a workout.
But there's something else that I credit, to my performance,
doing the personal best, that I did,
in South Africa, 430, 556-ish,
and it's this, these raw, frozen,
spirulina pods, from SP2life.
Now, before you start saying, like, Taren,
this is sounding like you're shoving supplements
down our throat, and this sounds like hogwash,
well, I thought the same thing.
So, as I was building up, to get to South Africa,
I was doing two of these little pods,
every single day.
It's frozen, it's fresh, it's not powdered spirulina,
because apparently the powdering basically
kills all of the vitamins, all if the nutrients,
and everything that you want
to be getting from this.
Freezing it keeps it raw, keeps it active, keeps it alive,
and all of the ferritin, the iron, the B12 in it,
is very easily assimaiatable in your body,
I think that's it, and I was starting to feel
like my cardiovascular fitness was enormous.
This isn't just me saying this, here, two clips,
- And some one gave me a box, and they were like,
dude, you should, you should try it, so I was like whatever.
Two weeks after I started taking it, I went out and did,
erm, I filmed a KOM video, me getting a KOM,
now before that, my fitness was not great,
my fitness number, not great, and I went out,
and I did my best ever five minute power, on this effort.
- I felt the best after I began to effort.
- So the first guy there was Tyler, Vegan Cyclist,
next guy was a Tour de France rider,
and both of them started out the same way I did,
very skeptical, and then they tried it,
and all of a sudden their performance
got really, really good.
And Tyler actually did something really fun,
to show you how decent it tastes,
he made his kid do a taste test,
with two separate glasses of spirulina and something else,
and the kid couldn't tell the difference.
- It tastes just as nice.
- So we're gonna try that same lil' thing
with NTK and Mel, right now.
(creaking)
Hey Mel, I want you to try something.
In front of you, are (sliding)
couple of smoothies,
one has spirulina,
the other one does not, I'm gonna give you one at a time,
taste 'em, and see if you can detect
which one has the spirulina.
- What does spirulina taste like? (laughs)
- Er, well you'll find out.
- Oh, okay.
Oh does this have banana in it?
- Uh huh.
(groans)
- Okay, number one.
- Ugh I hate banana.
- Oh perfect, I thought everyone liked banana.
- Ugh, not me.
That second one.
- And how does it taste?
- Like banana.
(laughing)
- Can you taste the spirulina, like very noticeably?
- I don't know what spirulina tastes like!
(laughing)
It, it tastes like there's more of,
there's something else in that one.
- There's more something.
- That-- - Well--
- Well you don't like banana--
- Outside of the banana, no.
- Okay, alright, cheers!
Hi. - Hello.
- I need you to do a blind taste test.
- Oh God.
- It'll be good.
- I don't trust you.
- Wear that.
- What like over my eyes?
- Yeah.
- I don't trust things you cook.
You gave me raw chicken on one of our first dates!
- And you married be because of it.
Okay, tell me which one has the spirulina.
- Oh.
- That one, and that one.
- Maybe this one, I don't know.
- Incorrect!
First one.
- Okay.
- Alright, here you go.
- Bye.
- So basically, here's what happened
when I started using spirulina.
I started with one pod a day,
didn't really feel a whole lot,
went back, talked to the guy that set me up
with it originally, said you know what,
are ya trainin' a lot?
And this was in the month right leading up to South Africa,
so, yeah, I training a lot.
And he went, yeah, you know what, in that case, do two pods,
just to like top yourself back up.
Within about a week,
and this is exactly the same experience as Tyler,
the Vegan Cyclist, and I'll link to his channel
at the end of this video, exactly the same thing,
that he went through, he was really skeptical,
started doing two pods, and he actually showed a graph
of some if his performances increasing steadily,
and he was like, is this the training,
is this the pods, is it, I dunno, just getting a good sleep?
Whatever it was, he didn't really know,
but I didn't really know that either,
and when I saw his video after the fact, I was like,
oh, we just went through the exact same experience
with the exact same product,
talked to the guy who set me up with this,
and he said, that's the whole purpose of why this works
well for athletes, because the iron, the ferritin,
the B12, all of that stuff,
that whether you are an athlete,
that runs down all of those levels in their body,
or especially if you are a vegetarian or vegan,
that is typically very likely to be deficient,
in those things, the nature of the frozen spirulina
means that you can really readily absorb all that stuff,
thus increasing the hemoglobin in your blood,
thus increasing the amount of oxygen
that gets to your muscles.
Here I wanna show you, some of the stuff,
right from this, er,
this lil' presentation that SP2life has.
So this is the nutritional composition of spirulina.
55 to 75% protein and amino acids,
and as this was explained to me, it's really,
really readily accessible protein,
it's not like some of those plant protein powders,
that are hard for your body to assimilate
and digested and get all of the amino acids out of it.
This is a lot easier.
About 5% fat, 7% minerals, 3% moisture,
15 to 20% carbohydrates, but it's good carbohydrates,
it's fibrous.
Here is the slide that I really liked,
10 times more calcium than milk,
three times more protein than meat, per pound,
all nine essential amino acids,
eight times more antioxidants than blueberries,
that's a lot of antioxidants,
25 times more vitamin E than strawberries,
all the B group vitamins, hello vegetarians,
25 times more beta carotene than carrots,
you know you can't get enough beta carotene!
And four times more potassium than bananas.
Okay now, a couple of things to note about this, is A,
it ain't cheap, I'm lookin' at the prices here,
at the most expensive option, it's 3.50 per serving,
you can get that down if you get a family size pack,
and a subscription, to 2.50 a serving,
and you might be taking two servings a day
when you start training really hard.
It ain't cheap, so if you are a very budget conscious
triathlete, probably not for you just yet,
but if you are somebody who is, let's say vegetarian,
or vegan, instead of doing a whole lot of supplements,
if you're somebody that takes those,
you can take some of these, but, I gotta say, like,
legitimately, this is one of the only supplements
that I've ever taken,
that I actually feel something noticeable happen.
Second thing that you need to note,
is that it is only available in the United States,
because it gets shipped to you frozen on dry ice,
so little bit tough to get ahold of.
But it's good, it's really good.
Now, full disclosure about this,
this is now a sponsored video, technically,
they are monthly sponsor of Triathlon Taren,
but as a lot of you know,
I don't accept any sponsors from any companies
whose product I don't use all the time.
If I were to bring on sponsors
just for the sake of cashing a check,
you guys would be able to tell,
if I didn't actually feel that way
when I start talking about it,
and the only way that you guys are ever going to trust me,
and continue to watch me,
is if I'm just totally open and honest with you.
So the only sponsors that make it through
are sponsors from companies who have products
that I totally dig.
Venta, Ulta, Shimano, Scody,
Rapid Reboot, SOS, Stride,
these are all products that I would say good things about,
no matter what, SP2 is one those.
So, if you're interested go to SP2life.com/Taren,
just try it out, I'd start with a small box.
Later Trainiacs!