Veeky Forums's thought on Gatorade and other sports drinks like Powerade?
Veeky Forums's thought on Gatorade and other sports drinks like Powerade?
Dominic Thomas
Levi Cooper
Tasty. Thats all i care about while on a bulk.
Austin Parker
Unless you're an endurance athlete or any other kind of athlete playing or training outside and in need of rehydration and a little fuelling, it's just more flavored sugar-water. That being said if you need actual endurance fuel or hydration there are much better products on the market, this is literally bottom-of-the-barrel, better-than-nothing-tier.
Brayden Hernandez
Absolutely useless if you want energy. You'd do better just eating a few tablespoons of sugar.
But if you how it tastes then whatever - so long as it fits within your diet.
Isaac Torres
Recommend the good shit please.
Jordan Martin
If I'm not mixing my own (which I do) I prefer Hammer Nutrition products:
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hammernutrition.com
Andrew Brooks
Water.
Chase Mitchell
>zero calories
>no electrolyte replacement
If you're working hard for hours and sweating like crazy, drinking only water may cause hyponatremia, which can kill you.
Also if you're running or riding or doing anything that requires a constant energy output for hours, taking in NO calories from carbohydrates can cause you to Bonk, hard.
Bentley Diaz
>drinking only water ... can kill you
ok
Ryan Williams
Doesn't the food suffice, why is electrolytes needed from drinks?
Dylan Taylor
I can't be bothered to sit here and write and entire goddamned Whitepaper for you on the subject of hydration, endurance fueling, and HYPONATREMIA, so how about you GOOGLE IT (hyponatremia) instead and get the facts?
Here, here's a link, don't say I never gave you nothing: google.com
Christian Butler
Okay, but how often do people ACTUALLY die from that, in real life?
As opposed to, say, dying from dehydration?
Most people literally wouldn't be ABLE to physically drink that much water. They'd throw up first.
Jackson Hughes
I just juice 4 mangos for rehydration. Better than gatorade and mangos are usually dirt cheap
Jayden Harris
I'm not even discussing this with you since it's obvious you didn't read a goddamned thing yourself. Go research more.
>poor water-to-carb ratio
>incomplete electrolytes
>shitty carb source (fructose)
I've heard some strange ideas over the years but that's a new and even stranger one.
Aaron Reyes
As a runner gatorade was good since it had gloucose rather than frucose and your body uses it faster. Not sure why you would use it for non-endurance activities
Carter Reyes
In my research mangos had the best electrolyte balance for people.
Its just a drink i make i dont really take it too seriously, and it def works and costs less than gatorade.
Elijah Brown
The problem with glucose, or any other simple carb that ends in '-ose', is tooth decay. That's why maltodextrin is good. Can't be used by bacteria that cause tooth decay, and has a GI higher than sucrose or glucose, and won't upset your stomach.
Non-athletes shouldn't use Gatorade or any other sports drink, they should drink WATER unless they're working for long hours in a hot environment for days on end, in which case some supplemental electrolytes (or at least sodium chloride) would be a safe idea.
Jackson Davis
that shit is just water with added sugar get some real hydration from SKRATCH labs.
Logan Morris
Fructose is not the best carbohydrate source though it takes longer to digest than others and can cause stomach upset which is a concern if you're an athlete which is why so many endurance fuels don't use fructose and use something like maltodextrin instead. Also I can get maltodextrin for extremely cheap in bulk and it keeps forever whereas mangos will go bad. I guess you could buy a bushel of them and spend all day juicing them and freeze the juice but what a pain. Glad you have something that works for you though I guess.
James Peterson
>taking quotes out of context
Cmon now
Parker Parker
its just sugar water man.just drink water
Brayden Powell
Coconut water. Just don't get that flavored sugar added shit. Better electrolytes.
Zachary Peterson
100% of every succescul athlete has proven to drink WATER in their career, however most losers who drink these types of drinks are proven to fail
Easton Scott
Love it, it gives me the feeling to be an athlete, it motivates me, is that wierd?
Samuel Lewis
Wouldn't say it's weird, sounds a little pretentious but that's all
Andrew Jackson
No I'm natty
Cameron Howard
A lot of sugar in a lot of water.
Not impressed.
Jacob Rivera
Kinda prefer Vitamin water senpai a lam. I feel better hydrated for some reason. Gatorade is too sweet for me.