windschatten wrote:
RowToTri wrote:
h2ofun wrote:
RowToTri wrote:
To expand a little bit, people literally die after ironman races where they consume water and no salt. A friend of mine almost died of hyponatremia after IM Boulder. He was in the hospital for 3 days. I know people debate the performance aspect of salt supplementation a lot, but I can tell you that in really hot 70.3's and longer, I never ran well until I started actually planning salt intake rather than just trusting that whatever sports drink I bought had what I needed.
But also, even in an olympic, do you drink only water, or do you use a sports drink of some sort?
For all my long course races i drank coke and ate the chips for my salt needs.
In olympic racing i only drink water and my carb boom on the bike. Never drink sport drinks of any type and seem to do just fine.
I hate to break it to you, but you supplement salt while racing. EVEN if it were just chips and soda, that is still salt. But you also use Carb Boom, which has both sodium and potassium in it. So welcome to the club.
That's pretty much BS.
Taking minerals and sugars and on the other side taking products that provide biochemically active or catalytic activity (complex biosynthetic compounds) is not the same.
The old-fashioned definition of 'supplement' including in-organic minerals and salts without biological activity is misleading and often used as an excuse by those who start pointing fingers back.
Again, minerals and sugars are not the same as biological protein building blocks, precursors of hormones, antioxidants or other catalytic substances, that are in general of complex biological nature and otherwise normally built by the human body.
In my book, if you try to gain an edge by taking these biologics-supplements, you are walking a thin line with a clear intent and at your own peril.
Play with fire, get burned. And IMO, rightfully so.
What the hell are you talking about? Dave was saying that he takes no salt when racing and can't understand why people take salt. I pointed out to him the he does in fact take salt. That was my point. I said nothing about "biologics-supplements", hormone precursors or catalysts.
Try doing an ironman while taking in no salts. It doesn't matter if you get it from potato chips or base salt, which is nothing other than Himalayan sea salt. There is no slippery slope here. It's not pushing ethical boundaries. It is keeping you from being hospitalized for hyponatremia.
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