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!
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I eat a banana and drink a glass of juice and a glass of coffee before I leave for swimming (first thing in the AM.) Oh, and often a glass of water too. I start my workout well hydrated. If I can't get a banana, I do some other type of fruit, but I find I get hungry in the middle of a swim if I substitute the banana for something else.
During swimming I drink a full quart of plain old H2O. (Always more than an hour, and rarely more than 80 mins.) If I don't, my mouth and throat get horribly dried out. (Colorado at 6000 feet is a very dry environment. If I'm on the road some place a little more humid, I find I only drink half the bottle, and at that, I take sips purely out of habit.)
After the swim I get back home within a half hour or so from the time I get out of the pool. By then I am very hungry and thirsty, sometimes desperately so. I drink a ton of juice, another coffee and eat a full breakfast.
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I eat a banana and drink a glass of juice and a glass of coffee before I leave for swimming (first thing in the AM.) Oh, and often a glass of water too. I start my workout well hydrated. If I can't get a banana, I do some other type of fruit, but I find I get hungry in the middle of a swim if I substitute the banana for something else.
During swimming I drink a full quart of plain old H2O. (Always more than an hour, and rarely more than 80 mins.) If I don't, my mouth and throat get horribly dried out. (Colorado at 6000 feet is a very dry environment. If I'm on the road some place a little more humid, I find I only drink half the bottle, and at that, I take sips purely out of habit.)
After the swim I get back home within a half hour or so from the time I get out of the pool. By then I am very hungry and thirsty, sometimes desperately so. I drink a ton of juice, another coffee and eat a full breakfast.
