IronGiant
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I thought this was on tonight but it's on Thursday: BBC One - Panorama, The Truth About Sports Products
Anyone planning to watch it?
Anyone planning to watch it?
Nothing wrong with protein shakes but people jump at them far too early and easily in my opinion.
As for the programme, I think it will be the usual documentary where they tell you everything whilst telling you nothing. You have to remember these are for the general public and not for anyone who has knowledge on the subject already. I can see myself wanting to put my foot through the TV at times
Nothing wrong with protein shakes but people jump at them far too early and easily in my opinion.
As for the programme, I think it will be the usual documentary where they tell you everything whilst telling you nothing. You have to remember these are for the general public and not for anyone who has knowledge on the subject already. I can see myself wanting to put my foot through the TV at times
Personally, I think lucozade/powerade etc... are a load of old tosh. I'll do a half marathon, and just drink water afterwards. I'm still hydrating myself at the end of the day...
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What i suspect will happen is some irritating presenter will run for 2 minutes on a tread mill. Then drink a lucozade and not run it any faster. From there they will derive that it doesn't work. Cut to a story about a 25 stone man who drinks 8 litres of lucozade per day, then some stuff about marketing of sports drinks. Next they'll interview the chief executive of Pepsi, who will skillfully avoid all questions. Then some tie in to the Olympics.
I should probably watch the programme before ranting I suppose... I'm just sick of these promising documentaries, that turn out to be nothing more than watered down crappy excuses to talk about obesity.
I just hope it's a proper program.
My friend makes his own drink using 50% water 50% orange juice and a pinch of salt. Swears by it
I agree with your sentiments entirely.
The timing of the show is questionable as well now that I come to think of it. With the governments efforts to tax sports nutrition, I guess this would be a perfect time to suggest that they do nothing for the average person.
wookielover said:My friend makes his own drink using 50% water 50% orange juice and a pinch of salt. Swears by it
Just to also agree with the above two as i use an electrolyte drink whilst cycling and not only drink less whilst exercising than i used to when i just took water, i also find that when i get back from cycling i am not drinking copious amounts of water/pop and therefore not up all night pi**ing.
I have also converted some of the guys i go cycling with and they now use an electrolyte based drink and have found the same or similar results than me
GBDG1 said:There isn't really an argument that these things work - they do. Your body only has a limited supply of glycogen, you need to consume more food to replenish these stores, the fastest way to do this is taking in sugar. In addition, when you sweat you don't only lose water, you lose electrolytes. As you get further into an endurance event (in the grand scheme, a half marathon isn't very long at all) you enter a dangerous cycle where the water you're taking in is flushing electrolytes from the body, and not allowing you to retain the water you're drinking. This also depends on pacing, and whether you're in an Aerobic or Anaerobic state.
The question isn't whether these things work, it's whether they work better than something costing 10x less (if such a thing exists).
Ok fair point, but what I meant is that after exercise, would I not be ok drinking water and replacing any lost minerals/ glucose etc with food? I guess what I'm trying to say is that after I have completed a run I don't feel the need to use expensive drinks. I think a half marathon is a respectable enough distance too btw
I do agree though that when I start to run much more distance on any sort of regular basis that I should consider using more than just plain old water. Out of curiosity, what did athletes use before isotonic drinks came along?
Which one do you use?