Paddle out built it. Bare Aminos repairs it. Five grams of essential amino acids. Two grams of leucine. Sized for the body that still wants dawn patrol at fifty.
Shop Bare Aminos — R549/tub How it works →A thousand paddle strokes. A hundred duck dives. Forty pop-ups. The muscle reads it as load — and asks for amino acids to rebuild.
Each grounded in published sports nutrition science. No marketing claims — just the substrate doing its job.
Shoulders, lats, triceps and the deep rotators repair via the same mechanism as a barbell row. Five grams of EAAs gives them the substrate they're asking for.
Jäger et al. · ISSN 20235g EAAs. 20 calories. Zero whey. Sized for someone whose body asks for repair, not mass.
Witard et al. · Nutrients 20142g of leucine — over the threshold older adults need to clear to initiate muscle protein synthesis.
Katsanos et al. · AJP-Endo 2006EAAs deliver the complete amino-acid profile. BCAAs only deliver three of the nine.
Wolfe · J Int Soc Sports Nutr 2017No whey, no lactose, no fillers. Drinks light in the car park — no shaker theatre, no thick milkshake before the drive home.
Bare product specificationPlant-fermented amino acids. Made in Durban. SAHPRA-compliant manufacturing.
Bare manufacturingResistance is resistance — whether it arrives via a barbell or a thousand paddle strokes into a head-high set at Bay of Plenty. When the shoulders pull water for two hours, the working fibres accumulate the same kind of micro-damage a heavy session in the gym produces. The muscle needs amino acids to rebuild.
After 40, the muscle protein synthesis response to a given protein dose drops more than three-fold versus the twenties — published as anabolic resistance. The same steak no longer rebuilds the same muscle. Two grams of leucine is the threshold the older body needs to clear. Bare built it. Sports scientists confirmed it.
Wall et al. · Nutr Rev · 2015 · Katsanos et al. · 2006A two-hour paddle, repeated duck dives and forty pop-ups load the shoulders, lats, triceps and posterior chain. Micro-damage to the working fibres is the result — the same kind a heavy gym session creates.
One scoop, in the car park before the drive home. Nine essential amino acids dissolve in cold water in under twenty seconds. 2g of leucine clears the threshold the over-40 body needs to clear.
The repair signal had substrate to work with. Two days between sessions becomes one. The shoulders are ready to paddle again before the next swell.
Plain-language amino-acid breakdown. No proprietary blends. No fillers. Every milligram earns its place.
Two days between sessions used to be three. That's the whole story.
Finally something for the older guys that doesn't look like it belongs in a Dis-Chem bodybuilding aisle.
Five days at J-Bay used to wreck me for a week. Last trip I was in the water again on the Tuesday.
No hedging, no marketing spin. Specific, science-led answers to the questions surfers actually ask.
— Made to the SA regulatory bar
Three tubs of Bare Aminos. R1,098 — the equivalent of R366 per tub. Mix the flavours: Mango, Mixed Berry, Peach Ice Tea.
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