CNP Professional Pro-Recover £44.51 for 24 bottles

The 20 minute window of stuffing protein inside your body following a ride is often bandied around and in general, is a good rule to follow if you’re to allow your body the optimum chance of replenishing depleted energy stores.

CNP Professional’s Pro Recover makes getting the vital post-exercise nutrition about as simple as it gets, with a bottle pre-filled with powder that just needs topping up with water and shaking before its ready for consumption.

Pro Recover consists of fast acting carbohydrates and fast acting proteins (in the form of hydrolysed whey and whey isolate) to ensure your tired muscles are able to repair rapidly. Pro-Recover also contains antioxidants that also help to limit muscle damage caused by intense exercise, and vitamins C and E.

It’s available in strawberry and chocolate flavours, and both were highly palatable, though the strawberry has a slightly sickly sweet taste. As with other similar recovery drinks, we noticed a reduction in tiredness and leg ache following some hard sessions, and the act of simply topping up the bottles with water so simple we had no excuses for not following the right post-exercise regime.

The simplicity element was further highlighted when we chucked a bottle in our kitbag when heading to races, and quenched our initial hunger on the drive home.