Funny you say that, I've stopped drinking it due to extreme dehydration and headaches after use also. I'm actually thinking about stopping my coffee drinking after rides....well for an hour or so anyway, long enough to hydrate.
They probably also increase their kava intake ;-)
When the army started selling gatorade in vending machines around the barracks the workload of the dental unit went up by 30%. I got that straight from the horse's mouth.
Kind of curious to see this study, Gatorade has 6.3g of sugar per 100ml, coke has 10.4g of sugar per 100ml, I just looked in my fridge at the nutrition label :yo:
By studies, you mean reading the label on the bottle?
My understanding is they use both glucose and sucrose as the carb transporters are different for each type, you you can be absorbing and bringing into the cell two types of sugar at once. It's been a while since I study sports nutrition / ergogenic aids but pretty sure that's the reason.
Yeah, I certainly not saying its healthy, but performance and health live at the opposite ends of the exercise continuum, if you want to maximise performance, health will suffer. Although drunk in moderation following the AIS guidelines I can't see any real issues.
my other half would agree with you there
with a hint of ginger ... sux when warm though, so definitely not an "on trail" beverage
I know it's anecdotal, and possibly just a placebo effect, but I always feel I perform better if I’ve had about 400mL of beetroot juice 30 mins before a race or hard ride.
Excellent, thanks.
Totally agree. My better half is pretty into her nutrition and goes to great lengths to keep her food clean/unprocessed. But the overwhelming pattern is just LOTS of fresh vegetables/fruit, lean small portions of meat/fish, limited refined carbs and sugars and plenty of water. Then she'll just add in some quinoa/legumes and other bits and pieces. No hocus-pocus super food, or activated nuts or whatever else they're trying sell you. She's at the gym everyday and plays/trains gridiron 3 times a week. Never sick, always fit, always recovers fast, strong as an ox, lean and plenty of endurance. If only she liked bikes!my other half would agree with you there
as someone who works in the complementary therapies field i'm VERY sceptical of all this "superfood" crap, i see it as just another way to make money off the gullible masses. same reason i won't go to a naturopath who sells on ready-made pills instead of using tinctures that can be customised for each client.
herbal medicine has been around since pre-history, and then refined by our "modern" medicine ie: willowbark to synthetic aspirin, valerian to Valium, foxglove to digitalis etc. all this "superfood" crap is simply the "health" food industry cherrypicking tried and true herbal and supplementary home remedies. my English food-gardening great-grandmother swore by cod liver oil, a byproduct of cod fishing, and epsom salts. these days we're sold unsustainably netted krill oil and expensive magnesium tablets instead.
get my drift?
in Ayurvedic medicine (from India) coconut oil is used in daily abhyunga to help control Kapha overgrowth, which is obesity. coconut oil in my daily coffee certainly staves off the mid-morning sugar cravings but there's no way i could do the Bulletproof coffee thing, i just didn't like the taste. i tried it for a couple of weeks and nope, not for me.
the one reason i don't use gatorade etc personally is the artificial colour and flavours, i find the blue in particular can give me asthma symptoms. i'm not an asthmatic. however, my other half works as a truck tyre fitter and i make him 3 litres of Staminade a day to take to work even in winter. he can go through twice that on a 40+ degree day. reading the labels, Staminade seems to be the least nasty of all the "sports" drinks.
