Do you supplement?

It depends on the length and intensity of a workout. After anything longer than an hour, I try to either mix a smoothie, or, if I'm too far from home (like on Lk Mary Rd), I'll have a "recovery drink" (infinit, Hammer). The most important thing is to have whatever you're going to drink/eat within the first 30 minutes after your workout and it has to have about a 4:1 carb/protein balance, like chocolate milk. (But I don't like the HFCS in it.) Search the BT forum for "recovery drink" and you'll find a whole range of routines people write about--but most seem to agree on the 4:1 carbs/protein ratio.

Otherwise I have never taken any supplements in my life, except for the occasional vitamin C, mostly during winters or while I'm traveling. I just don't think "isolated" ingredients are better than healthy food. There are so many more micro-nutrients in plants that we don't even know about yet. Unless you have a deficient diet or have specific health issues, I wouldn't worry about supplements too much.

Glutamines, for example, you can easily get from foods. From Wikipedia:

"Dietary sources of L-glutamine include beef, chicken, fish, eggs, milk, dairy products, cabbage, beets, beans, spinach, and parsley. Small amounts of free L-glutamine are also found in vegetable juices and fermented foods, such as miso."

That's a lot of commonly available, cheap, healthy and yummy foods, I say. Why spend money on processed supplements that isolate the glutamine and deprive you of the other nutrients?

Some of the tri group that I train with use Recover Amino Power after tough workouts and swear by it, they also use the Vo2 Max product during training. I've tried both and think they work pretty good. More info on them at www.sportsquestdirect.com

Other than that I just eat a lot and drink a lot of Vanilla Almond Milk  

I drink chocolate soy milk after low/medium effort endurance workouts.

After a hard workout or lifting, I drink Muscle Milk now. I posted on the nutrition forum a few weeks ago asking for the best tasting recovery supplement and there was a general consensus that that was it. I have to agree that it does taste really good, even mixed with water, and as I posted in my log today, I think it does help. I definitely feel an immediate difference after a hard lifting workout if I drink it - I don't feel like I've been run over a truck anymore. I've only been using it for two weeks so I haven't come to a definitive conclusion about how much it helps me with delayed onset soreness (though I did go climbing without many problems two days after a tough strength session last week), but I do love the stuff so far.

I don't swear by it yet, but man, it does taste really, really good.

I'm a big believer in whole foods (and food in general) over supplementing too. I did have a blood test recently (we got a free screen at work) and ended up being short on the iron side, though... and a few other things pointed to me being almost borderline anemic. I started taking a multivitamin again because of this, because as far as I was concerned I was getting a fair amount of iron. I eat red meat at least twice a week generally, and my iron was still low (and my cholesterol was also very low, with the "good" cholesterol levels being a few points above the healthy range). More steak!

Quinoa is also a source of whole proteins. Probably tastes better than hemp oil.

I started using the protein shake mostly because I was curious to see if it would do anything or not, and people said it tasted like a milkshake. I'm still on the fence about it, aside from the positive results I posted about yesterday. And it does taste like a milkshake, and I can't drink milk (lactose intolerant), which is why I think I'm still fascinated by it.