Formulated with 11 different vitamins and minerals targeted at improving your recovery and allowing you to perform at your best, BIX is marketed as the world’s first recovery hydration tablet and is designed to kick-start the recovery process after a workout.

Developed and formulated by ultra runner Vlad Ixel

In collaboration with a sports laboratory in Germany, BIX Recovery is developed and formulated by professional ultra runner and running coach, Vlad Ixel, who has won more than 100 running races across the world ranging from 5km events to 100km trail races. 

Following his workouts, Vlad had been taking a concoction of around four to six recovery tablets in order to meet his post-hydration needs, until he decided to create his own recovery hydration tablet that had everything he needed: and that is how BIX Recovery was born.

Recommended to be taken pre- and post-exercise

Containing zero sugar and all-natural ingredients, BIX comes in an all-natural orange-mango flavour and is recommended to be taken pre- and post-exercise to improve recovery times and maintain energy levels and general well-being for athletes.

Using BIX Recovery for myself

Thanks to Vlad himself, I had the chance to try out the BIX Recovery supplements for myself and I have used them for several of my running workouts. These included a Speed interval run, a 21km long run and a hill workout session.

The Taste

Unfortunately, taste-wise, I would have to say that BIX Recovery is not the most pleasant. 

Each time I had this, it reminded me strongly of a Vitamin C supplement drink, with some orangey flavour present. My taste buds could not detect any mango taste.

According to instructions, each BIX Recovery tablet, which weighs 4.5 grams and contains eight calories, should be dissolved in at least 200ml of water, varying according on taste.

Mixed with about 350ml of water, my thoughts are that the flavour is mild enough and that the drink is quite easy to swallow and digest.

Electrolytes to help with recovery 

The supplement is designed to hydrate and help with recovery during, and mainly after workouts as well as during busy days and travel. 

And the electrolytes used in BIX Recovery are sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, iron and zinc and the supplement is supposed to improve the absorption of water, keeping you hydrated for longer.

How BIX has helped me

For most of my sessions, I consumed the BIX Recovery immediately after the run. The only exception was the 21km run, when I took the drink both in the middle of my workout as well as after the run.

Each time after consuming the BIX Recovery Supplement, I felt somewhat more energised post-workout and at the same time, I also appeared to have less leg aches and sore muscles after sessions.

This appeared to be especially the case after my 21km run. 

For this particular run, I had woken up at 4am on Sunday morning for it, in a bid to beat the Singapore heat.

Usually after a long run, I am completely shagged and exhausted and I need to rest immediately when I get back home, but this time around, I was able to function without a post-run nap, even walking around doing some chores, until approximately 6pm in the evening. But throughout the rest of the day, I did continue to have some slight leg aches after this run.

Though I can only speak from my own personal experiences and without any scientific research of my own, I feel that the BIX Recovery might have had something to do with this, as I did not make any other changes to my post-workout routines.

That said, I have to add that this feeling could also possibly be due to the placebo effect too.

In the coming weeks when my runs and training workout sessions get longer as I gear up for the Rotterdam Marathon in the Netherlands in April, I will probably carry on using the BIX Recovery Supplements in order to continue to gauge what their effects are on my body and post-session recovery.

How and where to get BIX Recovery

BIX is available either in individual tubes of 10 tablets for $9.50 or as a recovery box of eight tubes for $76.00. To find out more about BIX, head to their website at https://www.bixvitamins.com.