Get Your Sports Drink On, Minus the Bottles and Sugars
Staying properly hydrated while engaging in any athletic activity is critical for performing at your peak. As sport drink brands such as Gatorade and Powerade are happy to point out though, drinking plain water alone fails to restore essential salts and electrolytes your body hemorrhages while sweating. What they don’t like to highlight is that [...]
Like Regular Water, Only More ActiVe
In case you haven’t noticed, enhanced water beverages are all the rage these days, as evidenced by their swollen selection in your corner market’s cool case. These hydration options offer a wide variety of beneficial supplements, but some come with unacceptable caloric or carb-loaded trade-offs. From that standpoint, I was glad to try out the [...]
When you exercise it’s critical to replenish your body with fluids, especially during the summer heat. Dehydrating yourself isn’t going to help anything. More importantly, you need energy and electrolytes – hence the bevy of athletic drinks available. Accelerade is more than just electrolytes and carbs. They have a patented 4:1 ratio of carbs to [...]
