donna said:
Sounds like a campaign by the dairy farmers of America, it does a body good and all that stuff. And isn't very pleasant if you happen to be lactose intolerant, or for the folks around you....
Water or sport drinks, which do you prefer?
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Sounds like a campaign by the dairy farmers of America, it does a body good and all that stuff. And isn't very pleasant if you happen to be lactose intolerant, or for the folks around you....
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donna said:
interesting... I just can't see myself grabbing a chocolate milk when thirsty...seems to me it would make me thirstier
Personally I dont think I could get into it myself, But it even made the news here in Australia two nights back, seems they are trying to encourage parents to get their kids into choc milk rather than high sodium, high sugar sports drinks for their after sports recovery.
donna said:
Gah!! A fast, cheap fix is watered down fruit juice. Sports drinks for their own sake aren't much better, really, full strength than soda except they don't have carbonation. Meh. chocolate milk.
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The best thing you can do to rehydrate yourself after a workout is mix half water with half apple juice, and add a little salt. If you're dehydreated because you are sweating too much, you're loosing things other than water. Consequently, you need something more. But I'm not a fan of the sugar-aids.(although I do like the flavor)
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After a really tough workout, you know the type, where every inch of your skin feels bruised and every joint in your body feels like it's been dislocated, I follow famed sports nutritionists George Thurogoods advice: One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer.
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JeffJ said:
George'd tell ya that's Johnny Lee Hooker's "advice," originally......
It's water for me. I drink it more than anything else. Working out or not. Occasionally I'll drink Gatorade in the summer during work outs, but mainly water.
Lisa said:
Water all the way baby!
Really? Got some links? I'd be very interested in digging into that. Thanks!Marginal said:
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shesulsa said:
I just ran searches on pubmed.com one weekend a while back. I got curious since people kept saying how terrible coke was, but nobody seemed to know much more than "It's bad, terrible, worse than everything" I stopped drinking anything but water prior to doing this, but after several months, I saw no benefits, no health improvements etc. Just a whole lot of unenjoyable fluid. I figured for an extra six months of life (assuming of course that every dire prediction is true) as a decrepit old man (which is ultimately the case regardless), it wasn't worth the trade.
A lotta the stuff being currently pushed by healthy living life coaches is total bunk. Phosphoric acid? It's in extremely low concentrations. Far too low for the results claimed. At best, drinking orange juice should also be considered a deadly activity in that case. http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/coke.html People being constantly dehydrated due to coke consumption. Nope. Doesn't happen. Didn't find any studies that demonstrated caffine's destructive traits etc.
What is "harmful gut material"? The study there sounds really medical and scientific...
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What are you talking about/referencing? There's all kinds of harmful gut material, but you have it in quotes ... reference, please?
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Went to a performance enhancing workshop today put on by Sport Manitoba. Part of the discussion was how to properly hydrate your athletes during training and competition.
The general basis for hydration was:
150 to 200 ml of water which the speaker translated into three large "glugs" of water ever 10 to 15 minutes of moderate to high physical activities.
We discussed "sugary" sports drinks and although he felt they had their place, unless your workout/competition was going to be stressfull and long (+2 hours) you should continue to hydrate with water and only use sugary glucose drinks these extreme cases.
Figured I would share
The general basis for hydration was:
150 to 200 ml of water which the speaker translated into three large "glugs" of water ever 10 to 15 minutes of moderate to high physical activities.
We discussed "sugary" sports drinks and although he felt they had their place, unless your workout/competition was going to be stressfull and long (+2 hours) you should continue to hydrate with water and only use sugary glucose drinks these extreme cases.
Figured I would share
Drink water, eat fruit, sweat much.
Repeat.
Repeat.
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H2O.
