banana split protein shake

Now this is how to do a post workout shake!

Would you believe that I never ate a banana split? I really don’t think I ever have. I actually had to google banana split just to be sure of what ingredients are in one. My guess was right. Besides bananas duh, strawberries, chocolate fudge, pineapples, chopped nuts…For my shake I used crunchy peanut butter to mimic the chppped nuts. You could totally use regular peanut butter and garnish your shake with chopped nuts. Or you could leave it out altogether.

I made this shake for Mikey and I after a particularly grueling yet quick workout. I had a busy weird week and pretty much put my workouts on the back burner. So we did an all encompassing full body workout. Four sets of squats, four sets of pull-ups, four sets of dips, and finished it up with kettlebell swings. Very fast but super effective. And it felt good just to get some kind of a workout in.

These banana split protein shakes were just perfect for our post workout. Plus it was 80 something degrees out, very humid, and we had yet to get our air conditioners put in and running(we just have window units). So these shakes were very cold and refreshing! And super tasty!

Banana split protein shakes
(serves 2)
1 banana
1/2 cup sliced strawberries
1/2 cup chopped pineapple
1 Tbl crunchy peanutbutter
1 scoop chocolate protein powder
1 1/2 cups almond milk (or milk of your choice)
1 1/2 cups ice
chocolate syrup
Place first 7 ingredients in a blender and blend well. Garnish glass with a banana, strawberry, and pineapple wedge. Top off shake and fruit with drizzle of chocolate syrup.
Just a side note-if you are not into protein powder, a good substitute is greek yogurt. For chocolate protein powder use 1 cup greek yogurt and 1 Tbl cocoa powder.

A healthy drinkable banana split!! Doesn’t get any better than that!!