Hi guys,
I'm just curious to know what others are drinking during and after practice. Do you stick with plain old water, or do you use Cytomax, Ultima, etc? Do you drink it at every practice during the season?
I've heard great things about Accelerade and Endurox. Are they everything they're cracked up to be?
Thanks in advance!
If the workout is an hour or less I usually just go with water.
An hour to 90 minutes is borderline and over 90 minutes i definitely have something to drink that has calories in it.
Your liver glycogen can usually cover the hour workouts pretty easily and no resulting drop in blod glucose is felt. 60 to 90 minutes it depends on your state.
The 6 am practices I have something to drink if it is hard as your stores can be pretty depleted if you don't eat breakfast. Although it isn't necessarily depleted.
I have tried them all and I think the main thing is to get the carbohydrate calories in. The protein and amino acids are nice but make the drink harder to get down when exercising. For that reason I use gatorade powder inexpensive and univsersally available.
For very long things I spike the gatorade with carbo pro for some extra calories.
Endurox is a recovery drink and works well. But realize its main selling point is convenience, you can replicate it pretty easily by stirring a teasponn or so of sugar into a glass of milk. I have a tub of endurox that I use right now.
Endurox and accelerade are definitely acquired tastes, anything with protein likely will be, at first you will want to drink them very cold.
If the workout is an hour or less I usually just go with water.
An hour to 90 minutes is borderline and over 90 minutes i definitely have something to drink that has calories in it.
Your liver glycogen can usually cover the hour workouts pretty easily and no resulting drop in blod glucose is felt. 60 to 90 minutes it depends on your state.
The 6 am practices I have something to drink if it is hard as your stores can be pretty depleted if you don't eat breakfast. Although it isn't necessarily depleted.
I have tried them all and I think the main thing is to get the carbohydrate calories in. The protein and amino acids are nice but make the drink harder to get down when exercising. For that reason I use gatorade powder inexpensive and univsersally available.
For very long things I spike the gatorade with carbo pro for some extra calories.
Endurox is a recovery drink and works well. But realize its main selling point is convenience, you can replicate it pretty easily by stirring a teasponn or so of sugar into a glass of milk. I have a tub of endurox that I use right now.
Endurox and accelerade are definitely acquired tastes, anything with protein likely will be, at first you will want to drink them very cold.
