Workout Rehydration - Gatorade anyone?

I'm sorry! What products made you sick? I know I tried the MNS vitamins - for energy/appetite suppression - and they did not agree with me. It had something in it that messed my stomach up. Thats why I just take Coreplex (basic multivitamin) and Omegaplex instead. With swimming, I don't really need to suppress my appetite! Rehydrate actually calms my stomach. I drink it whenever I have an upset stomach or a virus. It was some energy bar thing. Several years ago. I ate half of it before practice and had to get out because it was making me shake and my heart race. That was my one and only try at Advocare. A friend sold it and asked me to try it. After that she told me to avoid it in case I reacted like that again. Alison

Before the early morning workouts I do not eat anything. Good to drink sports drinks like Powerade, etc. Mostly I drink water during the workouts. Half a liter per 1 hour.:party2:

I generally never buy anything from a company whose website talks about making money and becoming a distributor. Spark looks expensive to me at $1.42 per 8 oz. serving. It has a lot of caffeine and just 45 calories. ??? I drink water during my normal 75-or-so minute workouts. If I'm swimming a rare longer workout I'll usually mix up some slightly weak Gatorade. In the summer and when our pool is 85+ degrees I know I lose a lot of fluids because of how long it takes me to hydrate throughout the day.

I am glad to see that someone else on here uses Advocare. Most people I know have never heard of it. Swimr4life, what other products do you use. I like to drink Spark before my workouts. Hi swimminlyn! I'm glad you use Advocare. I love their products! I drink Spark and take Catalyst (amino acids) before I workout. I drink Rehydrate during my workouts. If I don't, I get cramps so badly that I can't swim! I find it helps my endurance too. I have hypoglycemia so Rehydrate works best for me because it is lower in sugar than Gatorade. I also take the Coreplex (multivitamin) and Omega Plex (Omega 3's). I started using these products in 2004 and have really noticed a difference in my health and my ability to train harder/recover faster. :banana:

I reflexively swallow poolwater. Especially during backstroke sets. The pool water has salt in it for some reason, so I guess I'm getting my electrolytes that way too. :wine: I have no doubt there are other things in the water too though.

This is an article I read a few weeks ago. My grandson had been pushing a way his milk and refusing to drink it. My wife remembered that our Doctor 48 years ago told her to give chocolate milk to encourage our oldest daughter to drink more milk. Our grand son loved it but of course it has a few more carbs than regular milk. www.cbsnews.com/.../main1342839.shtml

I am glad to see that someone else on here uses Advocare. Most people I know have never heard of it. Swimr4life, what other products do you use. I like to drink Spark before my workouts. During workouts I take a bottle of water with me. Sometimes I can drink the whole thing and other times I bearly touch it. When I am done I always finish it off though. When I get home I like to drink chocolate milk with whey protein in it. Throughout the day I drink about 5 bottles of water.

During my swims which are always a minimum of 3 hours, I have 3 bottles of frozen water and 1 bottle of Rehydrate from Advocare. Because I swim in warm saltwater, as well as hot temperatures, these are becoming not enough hydration. I then sorta doggie-paddle with my heavy bag of fluids out to the first buoy (75 yds) and tie them down so I can hydrate every half-mile. I don't do Gatorade: too much sugar. Off topic a bit: now that I am in Texas for awhile and not swimming quite as much (only 4miles 4xweek), I have had no foot/leg cramping at all, but in the saltwater of Roatan, it is a constant problem. Maybe my skin is absorbing salt? After all, people wear patches for different ailments and the meds are absorbed that way. Still trying to figure out the cramping problem unless it is still conditioning as I move upwards in mileage.

Salt water was a problem for me when I first started to swim Marathon races. For some strange reason my first races in salt water I over kicked and the legs came right out of the water. I attribute that to bouyancy. My legs cramped. When I realized you barely have to kick in salt water no more problems. I usually had a light massage on the legs before a race, so the legs always had a light coating of baby oil on them.

Salt water was a problem for me when I first started to swim Marathon races. For some strange reason my first races in salt water I over kicked and the legs came right out of the water. I attribute that to bouyancy. My legs cramped. When I realized you barely have to kick in salt water no more problems. I usually had a light massage on the legs before a race, so the legs always had a light coating of baby oil on them. Ah-Ha! Maybe because I hardly kick at all is the problem; lack of circulation. I use my legs more for body balance than propulsion. And maybe coating my body with some kind of oil would help to repell the salt from the water. This IS my year of figuring out all kinds of problems.