[quote]Raige wrote:
If you are a 250+ pound serious trainer you must consume 3 scoops after workout and sip another 1-2 scoops during your workout. If one follows this recommendation, it would be a half a container a day and it would only last two training days.
Now if this person trains 4-5 days per week, we’re talking 2+ tubs per week. 42$ per week, 168$ per month sounds a little more expensive and puts this issue in perspective a little more.
Raige[/quote]
With respect: when training, the food bill increases. I started eating tuna in an effort to eat better and consume more protein. 3 cans a day, 6 days a week, that’s 18 cans of tuna, every 3-pack costing €2 on average here in Spain. So my monthly bill for tuna only is €72. Put like that, it looks expensive and that’s only one of 6 meals a day. Meat is about another €120.
I need food to grow. One of things I had to realise and accustom myself to when I really got into training is that a good and healthly body costs time, effort and more money than most people spend on it. However, I can’t think of a better way to apply my cash.
When people look at isolated amounts of expenditure, things look disproportionally expensive. But if you look at the budget as a whole, everything drops back into perspective.
As a contrast, I go out about 3 days a week and on a cheap short night, I spend about €10. That’s a minimum, but using that amount, my monthly ALCOHOL bill is €120. Makes it look ridiculous, but you have to know why you spend money and not just balk at the amount in isolation.
In reference to your example, maintaining a 250lb seriously trained body has a monetary cost vastly in excess of what a 210lb flabby sack-o-crap would require, both nutritionally and in training expenditure. However I’d argue that that taking the entire picture, it’s money well spent and there are probably areas that you are not spending a ton of money (booze, eating out, junk food) that compensate for the increased outflow on your health.
Surge (and Grow!) is cheap, and that’s from someone that has to have it reshipped from the US and pay customs and excise duty depending on the vagaries of Las Aduanas here in Spain. For the cost/benefit/effort ratio involved, I’d defy anybody to find something better.
