It goes without saying that a good diet is key to good health. As a fan of fitness and dieting, I'm always interested in reading about how professionals train and what diet supplements they take post workouts and, for triathletes, what they ingest during races.
So in addition to a well balanced diet, I was wondering what dietary supplements you guys take (if any). When I was marathon training, I drank undiluted Gatorade during runs with Gu every 4 miles and drank Muscle Milk for post-workout recovery. Other people preferred drinking Accelerade, eating Powerbars or Sports Beans, etc. but they didn't seem to do it for me. Because I sweat a lot I also found out that I needed to take in a lot of salt to prevent dehydration. (Dehydration, by the way, sucks big time!)
Even though I've long put off running because of bum knees, I find that Muscle Milk still works well for post workout swims and weight training. It helps to reduce muscle fatigue - if I don't drink it I will be sore.
We all have our own preferences, so I hope this doesn't turn into a flame thread. It's just interesting to hear what you guys are using for diet supplements.
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so I hope this doesn't turn into a flame thread. It shouldn't.
Supplements are simply part of a balanced athletic nutrition plan, especially on the post workout carbo (and or protein) replenishing side.
It's food like any other food. And speaking of money, I actually find them cheap (given that you pick the best price/calorie/quality ratio).
I like good old carbo reload (at $2/500Kcal) after most exhausting workouts and if I suspect there might have been muscle damage then I make sure I have sufficient protein reload, either through my diet (dinner) or through a protein/carbo shake (at $3/30gram at my local gym).
When I am in an intense overall training schedule, I might add a weight gainer/vitamin supplement (a shake there again, cytosports at $3.00/450Kcal done home early morning). Anyway, I keep a can home just in case, to increase Kcal intake to make sure I don't suffer Kcal deficit (like it happens to me sometimes).
Some like to seek for performance enhancement stuff like red bull or other stimulant, or Cytomax or anything. I prefer taste over anything else. And on that side, to me, poweraid comes first so this is my main fuel while training. Just for the taste It reminds me koolaid when I was I kid. I hate water, I find it is not rewarding.
so I hope this doesn't turn into a flame thread. It shouldn't.
Supplements are simply part of a balanced athletic nutrition plan, especially on the post workout carbo (and or protein) replenishing side.
It's food like any other food. And speaking of money, I actually find them cheap (given that you pick the best price/calorie/quality ratio).
I like good old carbo reload (at $2/500Kcal) after most exhausting workouts and if I suspect there might have been muscle damage then I make sure I have sufficient protein reload, either through my diet (dinner) or through a protein/carbo shake (at $3/30gram at my local gym).
When I am in an intense overall training schedule, I might add a weight gainer/vitamin supplement (a shake there again, cytosports at $3.00/450Kcal done home early morning). Anyway, I keep a can home just in case, to increase Kcal intake to make sure I don't suffer Kcal deficit (like it happens to me sometimes).
Some like to seek for performance enhancement stuff like red bull or other stimulant, or Cytomax or anything. I prefer taste over anything else. And on that side, to me, poweraid comes first so this is my main fuel while training. Just for the taste It reminds me koolaid when I was I kid. I hate water, I find it is not rewarding.
