In my mind, sports drinks are often not for the everyday fitness enthusiast. I’ve seen clients come into my studio gym with G2, Vitamin Waters, PowerAde and even a Coke for 30-60 minute workouts! There seems to be much confusion around the use and timing of these readily available, sometimes very sugary products.
Drinking is one of the easiest and most effective things you can do to help your performance and endurance on long runs or doing speed work. Far too many of us ignore even drinking enough plain water and are confused about the use of sports drinks.But which drinks to use, and when? There are RW reviews and reader reviews below, but here are my rules of thumb:
- 60-90 minutes (less in hot weather): water
- Over 90 minutes (less in hot weather or at fast pace): energy drink
- After hard sessions, especially when a day’s training will follow: recovery drink
Energy drinks can also be moderately used before a morning run or workout if you don’t have time to eat and digest breakfast – they’re easier to digest than solids. I prefer Cytomax Sport at about 100 calorie serving for my 120 pound body.Here’s a quick guide to the different types of sports drink.
The following you tube link is great idea that we could recreate in our studio as a taste test. http://youtu.be/PWIUg3372mA
Also, we could do a FB poll or question on YPB and IQuack with the following favorite sport drink beverages.
Vitamin Water, Life Water by Sobie, G2 by Gatoraide, Dasani Plus, Propel by Gatorade.
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