Water or sport drinks, which do you prefer?
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lenatoi
Green Belt
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)
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.
Sorry, couldn't help it, just heard the song.
Jeff
Sorry, couldn't help it, just heard the song.
Jeff
Lisa said:
Water all the way baby!
Marginal
Senior Master
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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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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