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Homemade Sports Drink Recipes
On Jun 24, 9:22 pm, "* * Chas" wrote:
"Mike Hamilton" wrote in message ... Does anybody here make their own homemade sports drinks to save money instead of buying Gatorade, Accelerade, etc.? Is there actually any advantage to buying the more expensive during-exercise and recovery drinks? I found this so far:http://www.cptips.com/hmdesnk.htm And his basic Gatorade-like recipe: Recipe #1 * 10 tbs. sugar (5/8 cups or 120 grams) * .75 tsp Morton Lite salt (4.2 grams) * 1 package of unsweetened Kool-Aid mix for flavor * Water to make 2 liters Nutrition Information (per 8 ounces). The recipe will give a total of 124 grams of solute which in 2 liters water gives a total of 6.2% concentration. * 14.2 grams carbohydrate (6%) * 53 calories * 103 mg Sodium * 121 mg Potassium And my personal favorite for recovery is the large glass of skim milk with a ton of table sugar mixed in. Michael Hamilton Before the days of ERG, etc. I used to mix half of a 6 oz. can of tomato paste per water bottle. Two of them helped keep away electrolyte bonk in the hot Southwest sun. Six oz. of tomato paste only contains about 80 calories but it has sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium, four elements that you loose in perspiration. One time another rider rode up beside me and grabbed the bottle out of my TA handlebar water bottle cage and emptied on himself thinking it was H20. That was the last time he touched any of my stuff. ;-) Chas.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - This brings up verlen kruger verlenkruger.com www.krugercanoes.com/ http://pweb.jps.net/~prichins/loganbrd.htm Kruger mixed some sports drink for his partner who became deathly ill from it st the start of a trip around SA? I regret not knowing Kruger, rumor perhaps untrue is that he found this amusing which did not improve the situation Before starting a trip around SA. I suffered one - rose hips: cramps farting...thanks mom! Good idea. A problem with the DIY sports drink beyond the Logan Bread which is good and sure tastes better than banana nut gach, finding glucose in a food form at less than 55 gallon drum quantities. Fructose, sucrose galactose from AVAGADRO IV but not the stuff energy foods people claim to mix into the food for the 'actual' energy production part of it: glucose. The body, mine anyway, takes food breaks it down and eventually feeds glucose into the energy mechanism. That's what CHO does to your liver. CHO forces the liver to yield its glucose into the bloodstream. The energy food or drink skips the digestion and gives you the basic glucoses without the effort of digesting. Read the Cliff and Power bar ingredients like niacin, thiamin, CAFFEINE...and using the internet figure out what each does energywise. Those 'chemicals' - remembering that chemicals may not be good for you- are available at the health food store in one form or another like rose hips, Do you know the formula (h-c-c-c-c-c-o) and how the stuff produces energy? That would help understanding the problem. iced water with a freshly crushed lemon and a pinch of sugar-pinch-is refreshing. |
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Homemade Sports Drink Recipes
"John Forrest Tomlinson" wrote in message ... On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:39:45 -0400, Mike Hamilton wrote: Does anybody here make their own homemade sports drinks to save money instead of buying Gatorade, Accelerade, etc.? Is there actually any advantage to buying the more expensive during-exercise and recovery drinks? Some of the commercial drinks that have glucose polymers in them can have more calories without tasting as sweet as your drink made with just sucrose. -- JT A lot of emphasis is put on salt or sodium and sometimes potassium but it's also important to replace the calcium and magnesium that you loose in perspiration. Magnesium is one of the electrolytic minerals that is overlooked a lot and the American diet tends to be low in it. Here's a link with some info on the dietary magnesium requirements: http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu...magnesium.html Sunflower seeds and many kinds of nuts are a good source for magnesium but they also contain a lot of fat which is slower to break down into energy so they are not generally the best choice for eating just before or while riding. Many of the commercial "energy bars" contain high percentages of peanut butter and/or other nuts. These may not be the best food source for cyclists, runners or other athletes needing a fast energy boost. Bananas contain some magnesium and also potassium plus a lot of carbs. This is a good website for nutritional breakdown on various foods. There is a section that lists minerals in the right hand column: http://www.nutritiondata.com/help/quickstart In another thread you discussed cramps at length. I was a competitive swimmer during my teens. I suffered from horrendous cramps in my calves. I've had both calves cramp up while swimming, walking afterwards and in my sleep. The problem went away for the most part in my 20s. After hip surgery about 4 years ago, I started having leg cramps again in my calves while sleeping. My ortho MD recommended that I eat enough calcium, magnesium and take vitamin E supplements. These measures have just about eliminated the problem. Occasionally at the end of a hard ride my quads will start to cramp up on a climb but that's due to electrolyte bonk and I need to start drinking some kind of replacement beverage while riding. Hope that helps. Chas. |
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Homemade Sports Drink Recipes
"NickP" wrote in message ... Mine just comes out of the tap... You mean beer? Beer is a good source of energy..... Chas. |
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Homemade Sports Drink Recipes
a BORSCHT BAR looks like a good bet for the summer
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Homemade Sports Drink Recipes
Thanks so much everybody...I shall go experiment now, although the MIT
cycling team will be sponsored by some sports drink companies when I get there in the fall for grad school. Michael Mike Hamilton wrote: Does anybody here make their own homemade sports drinks to save money instead of buying Gatorade, Accelerade, etc.? Is there actually any advantage to buying the more expensive during-exercise and recovery drinks? I found this so far: http://www.cptips.com/hmdesnk.htm And his basic Gatorade-like recipe: Recipe #1 * 10 tbs. sugar (5/8 cups or 120 grams) * .75 tsp Morton Lite salt (4.2 grams) * 1 package of unsweetened Kool-Aid mix for flavor * Water to make 2 liters Nutrition Information (per 8 ounces). The recipe will give a total of 124 grams of solute which in 2 liters water gives a total of 6.2% concentration. * 14.2 grams carbohydrate (6%) * 53 calories * 103 mg Sodium * 121 mg Potassium And my personal favorite for recovery is the large glass of skim milk with a ton of table sugar mixed in. Michael Hamilton |
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Homemade Sports Drink Recipes
remember!
studies may indicate excessive vitamin intake could promote prostate cancer and Cliff Bar's innovator died from heart strain and clogged coronary arteries EAT A BEET BEET THE HEAT BUT HOLD THE CREAM |
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