Home Workout, Cocoa Pancake Recipe & VEGA Review

Home Workout

No gym, NO PROBLEM, no excuses!!!! 



Try out this strength/cardio circuit:
Do 3 rounds for around a 35 minute workout.
And add some WEIGHTS or resistance! Such as bands, or a duffel bag stuffed with clothes or textbooks! No excuse for not getting a decent workout in when you're suck at home!

Remember to warm up and cool down properly

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Cocoa Protein Pancakes

• 1 tbs flax meal
• 3 tbs water

Combine above 2 ingredients and let sit for 1-2 minutes
Then blend with:

• 1 scoop whey protein
• 1/3 cup oats
• 3 tbs apple sauce
• 1 tbs greek yogurt
• 2 tbs almond milk
• 1 tbs cocoa powder

Cook the blended batter like pancakes!
Top with some delicious peanut butter like I did :P

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VEGA Review

I came home to an awesome package from Vega which contained their Vega One Nutritional Shakes [vanilla, berry, and chocolate] and their new Vega Sport Sugar Free Energizer [lemon lime and acai berry]!

What Makes Vega One Awesome?

15 g Protein

6 g Fiber
Boasting 24% of your recommended daily intake of fiber per serving, Vega One is a delicious way to work both soluble and insoluble fiber into your day.
Low GI Carbohydrates
Low glycemic—with an impressively low GI of 19.2—one serving of Vega One is comprised of 26% naturally-occurring complex carbohydrates. Sweetened only with stevia extract, Vega One has no sugar, maltodextrin or sugar-derivatives added.
1.5 g Omega-3
Giving you as much Omega-3 per scoop as 6 oz. of wild chum salmon, Vega One sources its plant-based Omega profile from white chia, whole flax seed (not flax meal) and hemp.
Antioxidants
Blueberries are jealous—that’s because a serving of Vega One has as many antioxidants as 2.7 cups of them.
Greens
A single, one-scoop serving of Vega One delivers the equivalent of 3 servings of vegetables—mainly from our Green Blend, which features:

• Chlorella (cracked cell, high CGF)
• Alfalfa grass
• Spinach leaf
• Broccoli
• Kale

Vitamins & Minerals
Helping you cover your key nutrient bases, a serving of Vega One give you 50% of your daily intake of vitamins and minerals. Premium vitamin and mineral forms such as mineral citrates were chosen to help you get more out of Vega One through better absorption.
Probiotics
Vega One helps maintain healthy intestinal flora—without a visit to the yogurt aisle.
Digestive Enzymes
Vega’s Digestive Enzyme blend is added to facilitate the breakdown of nutrients in Vega One during digestion, so more nutrients are available to be absorbed by your body for higher net-gain nutrition.
Maca
Rich in amino acids, alkaloids, sterols, vitamins and minerals, 1000 mg of pure, organic, gelatinized maca are included in every serving of Vega One, to help you balance, invigorate, energize and maintain good health.
Chlorella
Part of the Green Blend in Vega One, chlorella is a nutritious, green micro-algae that delivers Chlorella Growth Factor (CGF), chlorophyll, protein, vitamins and minerals to help support immune function

Here's a review of the 3 flavors!

French Vanilla
Mixed it with a straw in water and it seemed to mix well! But when I drank it, it was a bit powdery tasting. Good strong vanilla taste though! Next time I'll try using a shaker bottle! But out of all the flavors, this was probably my favorite.

Chocolate
This time I tried blending it with a banana and almond milk, so as to get rid of the chalky powdery consistency and taste. It helped a bit, but there was still the gritty grainy consistency! But I did get the good chocolate flavor in there. Maybe next time I'll try to blend even more solids!

Berry
 This time I blended it with ice to see if it would help, and it did, because the chunks of the ice helped mask the texture. However this was my least favorite flavor because personally, I don't like berry shakes! I'd much rather a sweet and guilty tasting one hahaha! :P

Vega Sport Sugar-Free Energizer

Vega Sport Sugar-Free Energizer is a pre-workout drink to boost your short or low intensity workouts. Ten synergistic ingredients help you focus and boost energy so you can power through your yoga class or lower intensity exercise—all with only 5 calories.

Use Vega Sport Sugar-Free Energizer to:

• Increase energy
• Enhance mental focus
• Boost endurance

The two flavors they sent me were lemon lime and acai berry!
So seriously, an energizer that's only 5 calories, and sweetened by natural stevia?! YES please!
I tried both flavors before a moderate intensity exercise of light weights mixed with high intensity plyos and it gave me good energy!  Not jittery but not crashing either!
I'd have to say my favorite flavor was the acai berry! Nice and subtly sweet!

Thanks so much Vega for sending me these wonderful, completely natural goodie samples to try out! <3 <3
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