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I have rather a serious problem. When I ride I usually eat and drink nothing more than a pastry and a cup of coffee. The results of this are that I get extremely tired on long rides.
After reading physiological training books I'm informed that you should consume liquids with electrolytes in them - mainly slightly sweetened water with potassium and sodium in them. That is a type of cooking salt I believe. Looking the drinks up that are replacement drinks the only one's I can see that aren't pure hype are Gatorade and Red Bull. The second one contains a little caffeine as well but only about 1/10th what you would get in a cup of coffee. The "Sports Bars" and "Sports Drinks" in the stores upon reading the labels would scare the pants off of you. The amounts of sugar are so high that they cause your digestive process to freeze up and stop. Does anyone have any good ideas about making your own sports drink since the cost of Gatorade or Red Bull are rediculous? |
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On Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at 11:54:31 AM UTC-7, Ned Mantei wrote:
On 20-06-17 18:00, wrote: I have rather a serious problem. When I ride I usually eat and drink nothing more than a pastry and a cup of coffee. The results of this are that I get extremely tired on long rides. After reading physiological training books I'm informed that you should consume liquids with electrolytes in them - mainly slightly sweetened water with potassium and sodium in them. That is a type of cooking salt I believe. Just to be clear, although sodium is a part of common salt (sodium chloride), potassium is different and not found in cooking salt. Both are absolutely required as salts, typically sodium chloride and potassium chloride, for every kind of cell in your body to function properly (sodium is mostly outside cells and potassium inside). You lose both sodium and potassium when you sweat. I don't usually ride more than 4 to max. 6 hours at a time, and stop for lunch after a couple of hours. I assume that the lunch is what allows me to go without taking any supplements. Could part or all of your problem be low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) if you exercise too much and don't eat enough? Ned Most of the "suppliments" I've seen advertised for bicycling are nothing more than sugar. |
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On Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at 11:54:31 AM UTC-7, Ned Mantei wrote:
On 20-06-17 18:00, wrote: I have rather a serious problem. When I ride I usually eat and drink nothing more than a pastry and a cup of coffee. The results of this are that I get extremely tired on long rides. After reading physiological training books I'm informed that you should consume liquids with electrolytes in them - mainly slightly sweetened water with potassium and sodium in them. That is a type of cooking salt I believe. Just to be clear, although sodium is a part of common salt (sodium chloride), potassium is different and not found in cooking salt. Both are absolutely required as salts, typically sodium chloride and potassium chloride, for every kind of cell in your body to function properly (sodium is mostly outside cells and potassium inside). You lose both sodium and potassium when you sweat. I don't usually ride more than 4 to max. 6 hours at a time, and stop for lunch after a couple of hours. I assume that the lunch is what allows me to go without taking any supplements. Could part or all of your problem be low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) if you exercise too much and don't eat enough? Ned Well certainly I must have low blood sugar but you recover from that pretty fast with a candy bar. I like to pack a PayDay Bar when I remember it. Nothing more than sugar covered in peanuts. But that isn't the same problem as having your legs go completely dead. |
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On 21/06/17 06:44, wrote:
On Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at 11:54:31 AM UTC-7, Ned Mantei wrote: On 20-06-17 18:00, wrote: I have rather a serious problem. When I ride I usually eat and drink nothing more than a pastry and a cup of coffee. The results of this are that I get extremely tired on long rides. After reading physiological training books I'm informed that you should consume liquids with electrolytes in them - mainly slightly sweetened water with potassium and sodium in them. That is a type of cooking salt I believe. Just to be clear, although sodium is a part of common salt (sodium chloride), potassium is different and not found in cooking salt. Both are absolutely required as salts, typically sodium chloride and potassium chloride, for every kind of cell in your body to function properly (sodium is mostly outside cells and potassium inside). You lose both sodium and potassium when you sweat. I don't usually ride more than 4 to max. 6 hours at a time, and stop for lunch after a couple of hours. I assume that the lunch is what allows me to go without taking any supplements. Could part or all of your problem be low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) if you exercise too much and don't eat enough? Ned Well certainly I must have low blood sugar but you recover from that pretty fast with a candy bar. I like to pack a PayDay Bar when I remember it. Nothing more than sugar covered in peanuts. But that isn't the same problem as having your legs go completely dead. I find peanuts difficult to digest and often repeat on me if I've eaten them before intense exercise. -- JS |
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On Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at 3:18:57 PM UTC-7, James wrote:
On 21/06/17 06:44, wrote: On Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at 11:54:31 AM UTC-7, Ned Mantei wrote: On 20-06-17 18:00, wrote: I have rather a serious problem. When I ride I usually eat and drink nothing more than a pastry and a cup of coffee. The results of this are that I get extremely tired on long rides. After reading physiological training books I'm informed that you should consume liquids with electrolytes in them - mainly slightly sweetened water with potassium and sodium in them. That is a type of cooking salt I believe. Just to be clear, although sodium is a part of common salt (sodium chloride), potassium is different and not found in cooking salt. Both are absolutely required as salts, typically sodium chloride and potassium chloride, for every kind of cell in your body to function properly (sodium is mostly outside cells and potassium inside). You lose both sodium and potassium when you sweat. I don't usually ride more than 4 to max. 6 hours at a time, and stop for lunch after a couple of hours. I assume that the lunch is what allows me to go without taking any supplements. Could part or all of your problem be low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) if you exercise too much and don't eat enough? Ned Well certainly I must have low blood sugar but you recover from that pretty fast with a candy bar. I like to pack a PayDay Bar when I remember it. Nothing more than sugar covered in peanuts. But that isn't the same problem as having your legs go completely dead. I find peanuts difficult to digest and often repeat on me if I've eaten them before intense exercise. You find endurance riding "intense"? It was hotter than the blazes yesterday and is supposed to be hotter today and tomorrow. Yet I did 36 miles at a 14.7 mph average in the city and wasn't particularly tired when I got back. I did have a cup of coffee at the half way mark. But climbing would have been an entirely different story. I somehow have to get back to drinking often. My wife says that we used to put away a bottle per hour on centuries. But the last metric I was on I only drank at one rest stop and the lunch stop and arrived back with a full bottle. And I was one of the faster guys on the metric. Faster than those riding the metric and not racing the metric. |
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