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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 12:09:07 PM UTC-7, sms wrote:
On 6/20/17 9:00 AM, 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. 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? Look into Brawndo, The Thirst Mutilator. It's got electrolytes, and it's what plants crave. Seriously though, you can buy a 4 pound container of Gatorade powder, which makes 36 quarts, for less than $11 at Costco https://www.costcobusinessdelivery.com/Gatorade-Perform-Drink-Mix%2C-Frost-Glacier-Freeze%2C-4-lbs.product.11980343.html. That's about 30¢ per quart, or about 19¢ to fill a standard 20 ounce bicycle water bottle. There's a bunch of homemade "Gatorade" recipes but since they tend to use natural ingredients (juice, water, sea salt, honey) they're much more expensive than buying the Gatorade powder which doesn't have the expense of real juice or honey or sea salt, and is mostly just sugar, citric acid, artificial flavors, and salt. I could never stomach Gatorade for some reason. I think it was the cost of the original stuff. Buying salty water with sugar in it always made me nauseous. |
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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 Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at 12:09:07 PM UTC-7, sms wrote:
On 6/20/17 9:00 AM, 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. 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? Look into Brawndo, The Thirst Mutilator. It's got electrolytes, and it's what plants crave. Seriously though, you can buy a 4 pound container of Gatorade powder, which makes 36 quarts, for less than $11 at Costco https://www.costcobusinessdelivery.com/Gatorade-Perform-Drink-Mix%2C-Frost-Glacier-Freeze%2C-4-lbs.product.11980343.html. That's about 30¢ per quart, or about 19¢ to fill a standard 20 ounce bicycle water bottle. Welcome to Costco. I love you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8zNsUTWsOc Just buy practically any reputable sports-drink concentrate -- Hammer Heed, Cytomax, Accelerade etc. Buy whatever your stomach tolerates. I like the Hammer products, but there are about a million options on the market. For longer rides also take something solid like a Cliff Bar(s) and then a quick-jolt product like a GU pack or Hammer Gel or Cliff Gel, etc. My son makes his own bars and likes banana/PB sandwiches cut into squares. I like Cliff Bars because I can get them reasonably cheap at Costco, and they're edible and convenient and don't make a mess out of your jersey. I'm not a fan of cookies because, if my nose is stuffy, trying to breathe with crumbs in my mouth can be fatal. I was eating cookies riding down Mt. Bachelor on Saturday and nearly choked to death. https://kimberleyturner.files.wordpr...7/img_3280.jpg -- Jay Beattie. |
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