Lucozade Sport - Powder

Genghis

I imagine some of the posters on here use Lucozade Sport, and it can be expensive if you are buying it bottle by bottle. Yesterday in Boots I seen they are selling it in powder format - one carton = 12 regular bottles.

I had been buying this from JJ Sports (because I hadn't seen it anywhere else) and they charge €10.15 per carton.

Boots in Jervis centre have them for €7.68 a carton, fantastic value.

daveirl

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Jak

News to me.

Cheers for the info.

JAK

tunney

From a cheap skates point of view a very good isotonic sports drink can be for 1.54 for 10 litres 900ml water, 100ml miwadi and 1g salt. Does the same as the rest but is WAAYYYY cheaper http://www.brianmac.demon.co.uk/drinks.htm

Genghis

Interesting, Tunney! I have also found the following alternatives after a quick google search:

You can prepare a simple isotonic sports drink by adding 60g of glucose powder and 1g (small pinch) of salt to 1 litre of water. Alternatively mix 500ml of unsweetened fruit juice with 500ml of water and add a tiny amount of salt.
link

The BBC offer this one: 50-70g sugar + One litre of warm water +
Pinch of salt + 200ml of sugar free squash, then Mix, cool and drink. BBC Sport Academy

uberwolf

human performance lab in trinity had me mixing my own stuff for a while that sort of receipe. good drink tha i use now is high5, €25 for what mixes to 25L.

tunney

I got the PowerBar mix yesterday, 17e for 10litres, not the best value I know but I couldn't find the high5. Where do you get that?

Genghis

I think I have seen the high5 mix in Elverys, can't recall the price or the size, but it was a largish can - something like a 'catering tin' of beans, or your standard size protein shake mix.

tunney

Nah, checked there yesterday, along with cycleways and mick dowlings. They all either only had some dodgy imported shjte(cycleways) or powerbars stuff. Went with the powerbars.

Shinji

The DIY isotonic drinks posted above are all great, and for the most part just as good as any off-the-shelf isotonic drink. (However, I have to admit somewhat shamefacedly that my own relatively extensive experimentation with isotonic fluids comes not from sport or training but entirely from attempting to avoid hangovers or post-club dehydration ). If you have glucose powder though, use it in preference to sugar or fruit juice - glucose is absorbed much more readily than fructose or sucrose.

Genghis

Where would you buy glucose powder?

Foilling Around

Genghis wrote:

I imagine some of the posters on here use Lucozade Sport, and it can be expensive if you are buying it bottle by bottle. Yesterday in Boots I seen they are selling it in powder format - one carton = 12 regular bottles.

I had been buying this from JJ Sports (because I hadn't seen it anywhere else) and they charge €10.15 per carton.

Boots in Jervis centre have them for €7.68 a carton, fantastic value.

Try this website www.thelssa.com/lssa/shop/categorylist_template.asp?ProductCategoryFK=27

12 cartons of powder for £57, less than £5.50 a carton

Degsy

Genghis wrote:

Where would you buy glucose powder?

Any halfway decent chemist should have it,its usually about 3 quid for half a kilo but buy loads because the chances are they wont have it when you go back,as i discovered yesterday in o'connell street!

rubadub

Genghis wrote:

Where would you buy glucose powder?

get it in any supermarket, in the babyfood section, sometimes in the cake/icing sugar section. Usually shamrock brand 500g for around €1 or less. Chemists are a ripoff.

justsomebloke

wow it's like buses in here today, you wait 3 years for an answer and all of a sudden 2 coem along at the same time

Degsy

rubadub wrote:

get it in any supermarket, in the babyfood section, sometimes in the cake/icing sugar section. Usually shamrock brand 500g for around €1 or less. Chemists are a ripoff.

I genuinely didnt know that you could get it in supermarkets..sheesh

daveirl

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Degsy

daveirl wrote:

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Any bloody chemist i've asked in havnt got a clue what it is..

rubadub

Maltodextrin can be got in homebrew supply shops, of which there are very few now.

lots of health shops are now selling home brew supplies. I got some years back in easons, dunno if they sell home brew anymore.
country cellar in georges street dun laoighaire do homebrew so may stock it.

The health shop in stillorgan also does homebrew. It is a non-fermentable sugar so people use it to sweeten wine/beer without it becoming alcohol.

this is an online irish site http://www.grapengraindublin.com/
dont appear to sell it, may well have some, or know where to get it. they list 2 emails
info@grapengraindublin.com
grapengrainhomebrew@yahoo.co.uk

there are plenty of uk homebrew places that should have it but post may be pricey.

daveirl

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justfortherecor

Lucozade sport has been banned from our training programme now (rowing). Supposedly over prolonged use (we train twice a day, every day) it can end up doing some serious damage to the ol' kidneys.

Our coach simply gave us instructions on how to make our own simple 'Isotonic' drinks. Cant complain, work out cheaper and have the same effect if not better at releasing energy during rowing sessions.

daveirl

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rubadub

I'd say it only damages your wallet.

mloc

justfortherecor wrote:

Lucozade sport has been banned from our training programme now (rowing). Supposedly over prolonged use (we train twice a day, every day) it can end up doing some serious damage to the ol' kidneys.

Our coach simply gave us instructions on how to make our own simple 'Isotonic' drinks. Cant complain, work out cheaper and have the same effect if not better at releasing energy during rowing sessions.

I'd love to see where he heard that. It's amazing the crap some people believe.

I have a post-workout mix of lucozade powder, 5g creatine and 5g glutamine. Works out dirt cheap, seems to do the job.

justfortherecor

Sorry to see my post caused such anger! Looks like we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. I'm going to stick to the advice of my coach though, I think its safer to trust the word of a guy who has trained world champions on this issue. Whatever he says goes in our camp:)

daveirl

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MicraBoy

Yes could you ask him for the research that shows this? I think a lot of people here would be interested (and concerned) to read it.

Running Bing

justfortherecor wrote:

Our coach simply gave us instructions on how to make our own simple 'Isotonic' drinks..

Care to share justfortherecor or is it top secret?

yomchi

A home favourite of mine is 60g dextrose, Vit C, pinch of salt and 5 grams of L-Glutamine in a pint of ice cold water.

I looked at the ingredients on the Lucozade sports drink. There is nothing there that would cause the kidneys to become under any serious pressure, the only little thing is the aspartame or ace K. Labs of tried this stuff out on rats and found some of them produced tumours linked to the use. HOWEVER.. for it to have the same effects on humans you would want to be guzzling pure aspartame down like there's no tomorrow - and trust me that aint possible!

Stark

I really don't trust aspartame which is why I avoid Lucozade Sport. If I need to get a sports drink in the shop, I usually go for Club Energise Sport which doesn't have aspartame in it. Otherwise, I go for one of the mixes suggested above.

I really hate the idea of adding extra sweeteners to a "sports drink" anyway, it makes the drink taste absolutely horrible after a run. It's mostly so the drink will appeal to children that they do it.

Running Bing

tunney wrote:

From a cheap skates point of view a very good isotonic sports drink can be for 1.54 for 10 litres 900ml water, 100ml miwadi and 1g salt. Does the same as the rest but is WAAYYYY cheaper http://www.brianmac.demon.co.uk/drinks.htm

Miwadi doesnt contain many carbs though does it? Would this drink compare with gatorade? also whats the salt for? is it just to aid digestion. Thanks.

justfortherecor

Salt provides the electrolytes to help recover from fluid loss. The simple isotonic drink we drink now is just some orange squash (without aspartame as stark explained), 6-8% glucose powder concentration and the equivalent of a sachet of salt. Essentially just a carb loaded drink to help with the release of energy during long aerobic sessions.