Sports Drinks

onenightinmay

What are the pros and cons of the sport drinks? I am prone to he occasional Powerade/Lucozade Sport after training/match. Usually I stick to the water but I guess I am a sucker for the fancy colours and the advertising!

So are these drinks doing more harm than good?

sunnyjim

Personally, I like to think that water is better than any carb/glucose/protein drink - people 100 years ago didn't have them, but they were probably alot fitter than us :eek:

daveirl

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t-ha

onenightinmay wrote:

What are the pros and cons of the sport drinks? I am prone to he occasional Powerade/Lucozade Sport after training/match. Usually I stick to the water but I guess I am a sucker for the fancy colours and the advertising!

So are these drinks doing more harm than good?

PROS: They replace electrolytes which are lost when you exercise/sweat, and they help rehydrate you.

CONS: They have fancy colours & cost $$$

Sangre

sunnyjim wrote:

Personally, I like to think that water is better than any carb/glucose/protein drink - people 100 years ago didn't have them, but they were probably alot fitter than us :eek:

Damn those unbeatable 100 year old world records!!

Odysseus

The jury is still out for me, I drank two liters of sports drinks and two liters of water water when running the other day day. Still not sure which help me best

poobum

well 2 litres is alot of the sports drinks...

Superdub2

Odysseus wrote:

The jury is still out for me, I drank two liters of sports drinks and two liters of water water when running the other day day. Still not sure which help me best

you drank four litres while running the other day! what are you, a dolphin??? im going to go as far as to say i just dont believe you!

EPO_MAN

Superdub2 wrote:

you drank four litres while running the other day! what are you, a dolphin??? im going to go as far as to say i just dont believe you!

I would tend to agree...how the fu*ck could you run with 4 litres in your belly. My water bottle holds 750ml and I wouldn't empty that on a 35 - 40 min run (from previous posts i have now incrased the run to 40mins).
If I did I'd be all bloated and ill and stopping for a thousand and one slashes.

Anyway i dunno about energy drinks. they probably help but I am of the opinion that by making it harder for the body I'm training it for adverse conditions like where i have to run from an axe murderer and don't have time to purchase an energy drink. However i have no prob with a post - exercise drink.

t-ha

Sangre wrote:

Damn those unbeatable 100 year old world records!!

LMAO

Oriel

I think the psycological edge of sports drinks may even be as powerful as the physical edge...

Odysseus

There seems to be some issues with my post, as some people know I'm training for an ultra marathon at the end of the month. Therefore, the day in question my run was 80k. Even with that mixture of water and sports drinks I now know that I should of had more. Since that I was out for ten and a half hours, I don't think four liters is excessive, and it was the Friday of the Bank Holiday weekend, which was quite a hot day. Maybe I was'nt clear enough, the point I was trying to make, was having had equal amounts of water and sports drinks, I don't know if one was better at keeping hydrated than the other. I hope that clears it up:rolleyes:

Transform

Holy crap puts my long run for the marathon into perspective.

Fair play and i personally would only use cytomax as a sports drink as most others just do not have the same quality and too much sugar.

Dragan

Odysseus wrote:

There seems to be some issues with my post, as some people know I'm training for an ultra marathon at the end of the month. Therefore, the day in question my run was 80k.

Howdy!

Just how long your ultra marathon will be? I know they can range in lenght etc.

To be honest, the sports drinks really would have helped you out no end....it would be unlikely that you could have kept up an 80K run on nothing more than water, at least in my amateur opinion anyway!!

I'm assuming you went through all the usual rigmarole of carb up before hand etc??

Seriously....that some incredible distance!!!

Dragan

sunnyjim wrote:

Personally, I like to think that water is better than any carb/glucose/protein drink

Happily enough, what people like to think and what is actually the case is very, very different. :rolleyes:

As for people "100" years ago being fitter than use, the point could be contested both ways....sure food was of a higher quality, but physical activity and being healthy for healths sake were hardly at the forefront of societal thought.

bluemoon21

Id prefer to drink water after running, but occasionally i have had a lucozade sport drink, to be honest i could nt really tell the difference between them, but i think waters cheaper so i think that will be the option i use in the future.

Odysseus

Dragan wrote:

Howdy!

Just how long your ultra marathon will be? I know they can range in lenght etc.

To be honest, the sports drinks really would have helped you out no end....it would be unlikely that you could have kept up an 80K run on nothing more than water, at least in my amateur opinion anyway!!

I'm assuming you went through all the usual rigmarole of carb up before hand etc??

Seriously....that some incredible distance!!!

Hi there,

The run itself is 100k, so that was the longest I will do before hand, reckon I'll crawl the last 20k if I have to:) Still don't know about the sports drinks, as I done 70k on with just water to drink. However, I think they must make some difference, maybe just not noticing it, when I'm that tired. I also take a 30 mins break every 20k near enough two hours, and get some carbs in me then as well, as well as chewing on Brazil nuts while running. I'm hoping to complete it somewhere between 14 and 16hrs. Its still a bit of a guess as its in Lapland, and so I have never ran the track before. However, the first 55k is uphill on a gravel road as far as i'm aware:eek:

Cheers mate.

Dragan

Well fair play man, thats some serious effort your putting in!!! Unreal!

Best of luck with it and let us know how you get on!