I'm going to try this stuff out. I've been getting calf cramps the last 30 minutes of 90 minute workouts, depending on the types of sets we're doing (it's worse on distance sets).
I saw a guy in my group chugging something after workout and he said he's less sore the next day if he drinks it.
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I will back up Hammer products. I love them...now that i'am used to them. It takes a little while. Without all the sugar and artificial flavorings like gatorade and accelerade Heed can come off a little bland. The new strawberry is good though.
At times I give in and use watered down accelerade.
If you really want to get your nutrition down go for Hammer, if you are just trying to combat some cramping go with what tastes good to you. About 80 minutes into a workout I'm fending off calf cramps as well.
And, one could argue that sugar cane, grown in the quantities to sate our thirst for soda and our appetite for sugar, would be just as environmentally harmful, if not more so, than corn. Sugar cane requires more water to grow. Regardless of where the sugar comes from, the quantities we consume are going to cause some environmental impacts.
I really think if you are terrified of corn syrup you are probably already a healthy person. I mean, of all the things in a diet to stress over, this has to be at the bottom of the list. I can live with corn syrup, I'm not chugging it.
well.blogs.nytimes.com/.../
Again, where is the distinction between HFCS and other forms of sugar? The study cited there was about sugary soda, not HFCS. Sugar is sugar.
Again, where is the distinction between HFCS and other forms of sugar? The study cited there was about sugary soda, not HFCS. Sugar is sugar.
www.westonaprice.org/.../highfructose.html
there are only about a million papers available to anyone looking for them.
I really think if you are terrified of corn syrup you are probably already a healthy person. I mean, of all the things in a diet to stress over, this has to be at the bottom of the list. I can live with corn syrup, I'm not chugging it.
you don't have to chug it, its everywhere... kind of like where hydrogenated oils were a couple of years ago. but i try to avoid excessive sugar of any variety (and as much processed food as is possible).
www.westonaprice.org/.../highfructose.html
there are only about a million papers available to anyone looking for them.
Again, for the third freaking time, the same exact mistake. High fructose corn syrup is not higher in fructose than other forms of sugar. Can you stop linking to what someone else says and try thinking for once?
High fructose corn syrup can be manipulated to contain equal amounts of fructose and glucose, or up to 80 percent fructose and 20 percent glucose. Thus, with almost twice the fructose, HFCS delivers a double danger compared to sugar.
This is from the article you just linked to. It is a very disingenuous trick to say that because HFCS can have up to 80 percent fructose it necessarily does. It doesn't. Therefore, the remainder of that article is based upon an incorrect assumption. The HFCS in the food that people actually consume is about 50/50 fructose/glucose, just like sucrose.
I second the chocolate milk post workout. Soy has the same 4-1 ratio of carb to protein that regular milk and the expensive recovery drinks have.
As far as gatorade, the mix, which is much cheaper, doesn't have HFCS. I like it diluted during heavy workouts.
