Protein powder for women... What's your recommendations?

First, let's just disspel the myth that there is a protein powder for women vs a protein powder for men. It's just another pink tax! My boyfriend and I have always used the same protein powder and we both have always gotten great results!

We're cheap and not super particular so we just always buy the EAS Whey protein that can be found at Target and other big box stores- we buy the big 5lb container on Amazon. I like the taste of both chocolate and vanilla, it blends well, has pretty solid macros, and it on the low end of the cost scale. I will drink it time to time when I just need a protein nudge and my boyfriend drinks it after a workout. I also like putting it into smoothies and it tastes great!

I have recently been having the Vega One nutritional shakes, which are more a complete meal replacer than a protein powder but they also make a regular protein powder. They are vegan, so dairy free. I don't like the taste as much, but dairy doesn't always agree with me and since I drink them every day I'm willing to forgo the flavor a bit.

I think most GNCs or other supplement stores have individual packets- maybe grab a few and try them?

I love Trutein. It's not cheap, but it's really good quality and the taste can't be beat. Tons of flavors to choose from, and you can buy samples before committing to a whole tub.

http://www.bodynutrition.com/samples/

Isopure Whey Isolate is my protein powder of choice. It's unflavored and can be bought on Amazon and mixed into pretty much anything with no taste.

Hmmm, agree with everyone else that there's no difference between men and women re protein powder but I will add that I personally cannot tolerate whey protein so I use an organic sprouted brown rice protein from Nutribiotic. It has most of the essential amino acids, tastes good and is pretty cheap on amazon.

I mix the vanilla with frozen blueberries, ground flax seed, coconut water, spinach and 2% plain greek yogurt. With the chocolate version everything is the same as above but instead of frozen blueberries I use frozen cherries..both taste good and get me through a workout!

utahmomof10 wrote: »

My husband and I both use Impact Whey Protein Isolate from MyProtein.com. It's high-quality protein for a lot less money than the name brands. Before that I was using Combat from MusclePharm and I liked it, but I like the Impact at least as much and the price point is a big win for me. I use it with just water or in my smoothies. It mixes really well and the flavors I have tried so far are good. My favorite is the chocolate smooth.

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Um, just to point out...unless you are protein deficient, it's not likely to make a difference, honestly. The original study done that showed extra protein helped for muscle building was actually only done on MEN.

The original researcher of that study had a lot of female athletes come talk to him because they weren't seeing a lot of positive results and so he finally redid the study, this time on women. And women, it turns out, don't seem to build more muscle when they ingest more protein, unlike men. Our bodies do not seem to work that way.

As an aside, this same researcher also looked at carb-loading before an athletic event, another study originally done only on men, and it turns out women are also different in men with this. They either have no positive effect, or a negative effect, if they carb load before an athletic event.

I wish I had a link for the study for you, but it was years ago and I can no longer find any working links (and neglected to write down the researchers name, other than recalling that he was in sports medicine).