accelerade

[adbrauner]

@Plook

I have a client that has sweating issues so I have him drink endurox during his workouts. I don’t know if it’s the drink or the fact that he’s actually drinking that’s helping him. All I know is that in one game “he’s a goalie” he sweat off 9 pounds 2.2=1kg, 1kg=1L, 9lb of sweat = 4 liters! I think he might have a possible medical condition though. He really has to make sure he takes his Eload pills now before games.

A big thing about these drinks and their research. If the research has been done by the companies then you can come to your own conclusion as to how good they might look in these studies.

I found this link when I did a “sports drink vs water” google search.

I never realized water was such crap. Check this out below. I like how they describe gatorade flavour as “lite”. I don’t find it too “lite” after any sport where I might be actually breathing hard.

http://www.gssiweb.com/tackleheat/pdf/vswater.pdf

Does your goalie client get alot of muscle cramps?

[Plook]

@adbrauner

Does your goalie client get alot of muscle cramps?

Nice Avatar.

He used to before he started with the eload.

He was walking to the bus after a game and cramped so bad he fell over in the parking lot. Lol. I love that story. It’s good now though.

[adbrauner]

I sweat more than anybody I know and I’ve had muscle cramp problems since I was 15. Mostly in the calves.

The worst are when I’m sitting at a computer or sitting watching TV an hour or two after I’ve done a sport, make a little tiny movement and BAM, my hamstring cramps up and its excruciating while I try to extend my knee back to normal! I have to limp/walk backwards to the shower and get hot water running to soften it up.

This has happened only 3-4 times in my life though. Nowadays, I’m pretty good about cooling down and stretching to lower muscle tone post-workout.

I’ve never met anyone else with this type of problem and I am the one who is drinking gallons of water a day and everyone else is probably drinking Coke or some crap.

[dr.sprint]

@TJ2K

id rather have biotest surge-- it takes amazing, and it works.

Hype. Propoganda pushed by t-nation. Theres quite a difference between taking supplements in powder form or pill form or having them Intravenously. If your really serious, probably for the more elite athlete, I would find a natural doctor that gives IV’s. Peronsally I feel most supplements are hype.

[Rockatccscs]

First of all what’s a ‘natural doctor’ ? Secondly… and any athlete just doesn’t get an IV everyday after training. Usually, IVs are giving in emergencies. With any injection there is a possiblity of infection. Thirdly… there is research showing that fluids (Gatorade/Powerade, etc.) are just as effective as IVs. In fact, I was in one of the studies.

Bottom line supplementation works and the research proves that.

[tamfb]

@Rockatccscs

First of all what’s a ‘natural doctor’ ? Secondly… and any athlete just doesn’t get an IV everyday after training. Usually, IVs are giving in emergencies. With any injection there is a possiblity of infection. Thirdly… there is research showing that fluids (Gatorade/Powerade, etc.) are just as effective as IVs. In fact, I was in one of the studies.

Bottom line supplementation works and the research proves that.

dont wory about infections when giving injections follow the rules and you will be ok, ask david boston how many injections he use to do and he never had a problem.

[popequique]

I should just get all my nutrition intraveniously, eating is propaganda.

[Rockatccscs]

Good point

[Rockatccscs]

So its ok for one person then its ok for everyone? Wrong!

[Plook]

@dr.sprint

Hype. Propoganda pushed by t-nation. Theres quite a difference between taking supplements in powder form or pill form or having them Intravenously. If your really serious, probably for the more elite athlete, I would find a natural doctor that gives IV’s. Peronsally I feel most supplements are hype.

I’m pretty sure our digestive systems are good enough to handle liquids.

I’m not denying that IV’s will work, it’s probably not practical for most people.

[dr.sprint]

@popequique

I should just get all my nutrition intraveniously, eating is propaganda.

Intravenously is spelled wrong. That felt good. Real good!

[popequique]

Tamfb,

I really think accelerade is fine, I mean as you said it is pretty cheap. I dont see the added benefit from the protein, but I mean if you think it tastes good it is not bad for the price.

I usually dont use sports drinks other than at competition, where I use caffeine anyhow so I cant really notice the energy difference, and instead of using drinks during workouts I usually use gels just so I’m not running to the bathroom every 2 seconds. To me this just looks like a waterdown different tasting protein drink.

[dr.sprint]

They were giving it out at one of the Havard meets. My friend won the 400m and the winner from each event got a certain amount of accelerade. I tried some it tasted good. Not much different then gatorade or any other sports drink to be honest.

[d_nasty]

@Plook

I’m pretty sure our digestive systems are good enough to handle liquids.

I’m not denying that IV’s will work, it’s probably not practical for most people.

esp those with a phobia of needles.

[d_nasty]

@dr.sprint

They were giving it out at one of the Havard meets. My friend won the 400m and the winner from each event got a certain amount of accelerade. I tried some it tasted good. Not much different then gatorade or any other sports drink to be honest.

i mean as long as you enjoy the taste i’m pretty sure it won’t kill the recreational or sub elite athelte.

[dr.sprint]

@popequique

Unless you really starving for those 4 grams of protein that accelerade gives you I really see no benefit over gatorade. (talking about ready made)

Unless your or you are

I dont see any benefit

You dont wanna mess with the doctor.

[dr.sprint]

@popequique

As a baseline, start with the fact that it only has 6.5g of protein not 15. Add to it has been argued that protein digest during exercise does not add to performance. Add to it the fact that you asked for opinions. If you dont want an opinion and already have your mind made up dont ask for it.

If you want protein to effect performance eat your regular meals and have a shake afterwards. If your looking for hydration which has the biggest impact on performance drink of a lot of water, if you need buy some electrolyte tabs they are cheap. If you dont truly want opinions dont ask for them.

I dont know even where to begin with the errors here! This isnt even literate English!

[dr.sprint]

@popequique

My opinion is that it is not any better than 0 grams and that it is a marketing technique used to suck in consumers and apparently a decent one.

It wont hurt you.

You use that is twice in this run-on sentence.

[dr.sprint]

@popequique

Are we still talking about sports drink? I define sports drink as something used during the workout or competition, I would say surge is a recovery drink used for well recovery.

Are we still talking about sports “drinks” with an s.

Another error. Wow what do you know every post on this thread has an error.

[dr.sprint]

@popequique

Tamfb,

I really think accelerade is fine, I mean as you said it is pretty cheap. I dont see the added benefit from the protein, but I mean if you think it tastes good it is not bad for the price.

I usually dont use sports drinks other than at competition, where I use caffeine anyhow so I cant really notice the energy difference, and instead of using drinks during workouts I usually use gels just so I’m not running to the bathroom every 2 seconds. To me this just looks like a waterdown different tasting protein drink.

don’t

punctuation error no comma needed first part of the sentence near where…doesnt matter though because its a run-on sentence…anyhow??? any how