Protein powders have been around for over 60 years now and people have been taking various forms of “recovery shakes” for even longer. Arthur Saxon the famous strongman from the early 1900s who still holds a world record of 168kgs for the bent press had a ‘health drink’. It consisted of dark lager mixed with a whole egg and plenty of sugar. Possibly not the best workout shake, but it seemed to work for him. So what is the low down on protein shakes, do you even need them? Most adve...