 So this morning I am doing five five minute efforts in the big ring going up local hill here Gindia Drive and to help me get up there I want to stop for a coffee at the local coffee shop shortly but I'm also going to be taking a supplement called HVMN ketone and I thought in this video what I would do in between efforts and rolling out to the hill I'd explain to you what it is what it actually does why I'm taking it why I've decided to invest in it and also what the benefits are so the coffee shops just around the corner but I've stopped here to drink this HVMN ketone now because I want to time it so it's about half an hour before I start my efforts and after coffee I'll explain to you why half an hour and what it's doing by the way I've stopped in a really bad location because those bins up there absolutely stink and this drink it doesn't taste so good but that doesn't bother me I actually think it's a good thing here we go so I probably should have mentioned up front that I've got a three pack of these ketone drinks to give away to my audience to the viewers so stick around at the end of this video and I'll explain to you how you go into the draw I'll link to the product below in the description area for those of you want to check it out and you'll see that they're not cheap they're $99 for a three pack that's USD so they're $33 a piece so you wouldn't be using these all the time but for some you know hard training sessions like what I've got today or and most probably most definitely race day so I'm here on Gindia Drive in Noosa about to start my five five-minute efforts going up this hill in a heavy gear and before I do so I wanted to quickly explain why I took that ketone supplement half an hour before now quickly what a ketone is for those of you who don't know essentially when your body runs out of glycogen stores it takes fat and pushes that through the liver and turns it into a ketone so it's a different source of energy that we can utilize within the working muscle now a lot of people will take MCT oils or ketone salts as a way to increase their ketone levels now you measure ketone in your blood in terms of millimoles so with ketone salts and MCT oil you're going to get about a 0.5 to 1.0 reading of ketones in your blood with this drink within half an hour you're going to get in between 4.0 to 5.0 which is significant particularly when you consider that a ketone according to scientific research is a more efficient energy source which allows which I'll explain once I've started to get into these efforts so I am three efforts in you can see the sweat dripping off my hat there now the interesting thing about this drink in terms of the amount of ketone levels that you get in your blood after half an hour of drinking it is that if you're doing it a solid workout for an hour you'll get the benefits of the ketones they start to dissipate after an hour if you're doing a full on all-out effort maybe 20 to 30 minutes and if you're just cruising around maybe one and a half to two hours but the level of ketones that you get in your blood after drinking HBMN is the same level as you would get if you fasted this almost seven days which is quite incredible because if you're faster for seven days there's no chance in hell you'd get on the bike and do a solid workout and it demonstrates what the body does when it goes into survival mode you see a lot of people believe in the ketogenic diet believe in ketones because it is a more efficient source of energy and when you think back to paleo ethic ethic paleo ethic paleo ethic days and you've got that right the caveman he would eat meat fruit seeds nuts but then he'd run out of food and the idea is with the ketones is when you're fasting when you're really hungry you need to sharpen up you need to go hunt you need to go look for something to eat you need to be mentally astute you need to be physically strong and that's why genetically in our DNA the way we are made the body goes deep into your fat stores and turns them into a ketone and goes bang there you go champ now you're ready to go hunting and with HVMN HVMN I can't talk properly now I'm doing my efforts you're getting a big boost of ketones and you've also got all your glycogen stores just in case you need them to so effort foredone one to go another thing I should probably point out is this isn't sponsored this video HVMN did actually contact me about a month or so ago and said what I'd be interested in doing a review on their drink now the first thing I did was look up the ingredients which got a big tick and then I did some research which got another big tick and I said yeah no worries so they've actually sent me the products to trial myself and also a pack to give away and I talked about investing in this before when I talk about investing I'm investing my time putting this video together is hours of work now the interesting thing about the ketone is that they say it's 28% more efficient as an energy source over glycogen so it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to go 28% faster but the energy source is sharper it's better 28% more efficient with delivering oxygen to the working muscle and from the tests that HVMN have actually conducted very thorough testing they say you get about a two to three percent increase in performance by drinking their ketone supplement half an hour before your activity now the other interesting sort of subject particularly relating to cycling is they did some tests on some cycles over a 30-minute time trial thorough testing and those cycles that took the ketone supplement were 400 meters faster over 30 minutes than those who didn't so half a kilometer that's pretty significant so I've just finished my five five minute efforts here on Gindia Drive it's quite a magnificent place to do your five minute efforts beautiful scenery closed roads no cars I think it's about a three to four percent gradient it really is quite magnificent but on HVMN HVMN the thing that really got me quite interested after I looked at the ingredients and doing some research is it actually originated as a there was a government agency in the US they funded Oxford University 10 million bucks to create a supplement so it can't even stand properly after those five minute efforts to create a supplement that would help improve performance of soldiers on the battlefield that's how it actually originated and now 10 plus years later it's commercialized it's available for you and me to drink and I've talked about some of the published sort of statements about the you know the improvements in performance for me I've taken it before sprint efforts before some you know anaerobic efforts like today some big ring efforts some hardcore trainer session efforts and also before some longer rides and I've certainly noticed that like right now I've done about 55 K's and I've done some efforts normally I'd start getting hungry right now I'm not hungry I've also noted that you feel a little bit sharper while you're doing your efforts those indoor trainer sessions the two-man break that I typically do on the indoor trainer session which hurts a lot it's a little bit easier so I think you know some people aren't going to be able to scrape together the money for this others that can I would definitely be using this for race day you're going to get an improved performance and then for those of you who can't afford it I would be taking it before your hardcore sessions because you're going to get a slight improvement in those sessions you're going to train a little bit better and the other thing that it has helped me with is recovery so because you're not going deep into your glycogen stores and you're not depleting your muscles of glycogen I find that my recovery is a little bit better after doing these type of sessions I'm not a sore I'm not as fatigued okay so to wrap the video up if you want to go into the draw I've got a three pack of these drinks to give away as I mentioned way you go in the draw is I'd like you to leave a comment below now I know some people will want to make comments and not go into the draw so if you want to go in the draw start off your comment by typing yes full stop and then I'd like you to tell me how you would use the ketone supplement what you would intend to use it for reason being I'm interested I learn a lot from the comments and I'd be keen to learn from you what your intent would be then what I'll do is a week later after publishing the video I'll draw the winner live on my Instagram account Instagram stories I'll do it and I'll link to my Instagram account below for those of you who might want to check that out and then what I'll do is once we've got the winner I'll announce it on Instagram and then in my next video after that I'll announce it in my next YouTube video as well so that's pretty much it hope you enjoy watching me bust out five efforts and drinking some ketones I'll catch you all in the next 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