The Shopping List
Vital Proteins Collagen Peptides Powder
Helps keep your joints happy despite the 90+ minutes of daily workouts you’ll be subjecting it to.
Helps keep your heart and bones strong.
Replace the salt you’re sweating out with some good stuff. I also use this is my primary salt in all cooking.
Trace Minerals 40,000 Volts Liquid Electrolyte Concentrate Drops
Helps reduce, if not altogether eliminate the likelihood of muscle cramps.
Usage Suggestions
I recommend adding 1 TSP of 40,000 Volts to a pint of water and chugging that at least an hour before your outdoor workouts. That one hour lead time is important as this stuff can have a mild laxative effect for some folks.
Once you’re done with your second workout for the day, put 2 scoops of the collagen powder, a couple of dashes of salt, and 1 TSP of bone meal powder in an empty glass, mix them dry with a spoon to minimize clumping, THEN fill the glass with water, stir well again, and chug creamy goodness. Chase with another glass of water.
The above combo, combined with a strictly carnivorous diet (2 lbs. of grass-fed and finished beef, salted and cooked in nothing but grass-fed butter, and topped with half a dozen lightly fried soy-free, free-range organic egg yolks—once a day.) got me through 75 Hard as well as Phases 1-3 without issue or injury, aside from a weird glute cramp early on before I added the 40,000 Volts to my regimen.
Note that for the purposes of 75 Hard, both the pint of water with 40,000 Volts and the pint with the collagen/salt/bone meal mix can count as “just water” since neither of these concoctions is remotely enjoyable and most would say considerably more challenging to enjoy than a plain ol’ glass of water.
But don’t even think about trying to count those protein shakes or pre-workouts as part of your water!