Stafford Brown wrote:
Alwaysrunning99 wrote:
BigBoyND wrote:
There's a location near me and I had no idea it was affordable. Is one test enough or does sweat concentration vary with diet, time of day (pre/post workout), hydration, time of year (acclimated to summer vs winter), etc?
Sweat testing like this is all marketing. replacing exactly what you measure as your output does not have peer reviewed research to back it up. A few points to consider?
A typical diet is already high in sodium.
The recommended daily amount is 2300mg. I can understand endurance athletes needing a little more but precision continue to push tablets as high as 1500mg.
If I saw correctly they told Ed to take 1000mg per hour. So if he does a 6 hour training day and he already eats well about 2300mg in his normal food (and actually probable much more considering his intake amount of calories in a day). How on earth can 8300mg of sodium be good?
Give this research a scan and make your own opinion, not what a salt company is pushing.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...articles/PMC4306770/Best advice ever.
Yes thanks to the Gatorade marketing department and supplement industry scare tactics every high school age kid on planet earth thinks they need to guzzle 32oz of gatorade after ---- shooting baskets for 30 minutes?
Frank in accounting gobbles a protein packed "recovery bar" after a 15min walk around the block?
Ever notice the only ones pushing this stuff and funding the studies "studies" are the people selling it? The worst thing is our bodies get so accustom to it we can't run 3 miles without guzzling sugar salty hydrating drinks that it's all our body wants every 20 minutes because we've trained our bodies to eat like pac-man since birth.
If you try backing off some of this stuff you'd be surprised. It's been 7 years since I've guzzled a quality "40gram doucheprotein shake" within 90 minutes to "prevent me from cannibalizing my own muscle tissue" "Oh and by the way if your not using douche brand isohydrolizedmicrosourced protien did you know your not even using %0.00000001 of your protein!" Better buy an 8 months supply now!
7 years later my muscles are the same damn size and strength------- who knew........
It also takes a super long training session for me to get that low blood sugar(bonk) sensation. Compared to when I was a slave to Gatorade.
***this public service announcement was partially funded by the gatorade science institute***
***most recent hydration study used 3 random people from marketing, duration of most recent study with test subjects was 45minutes***
LOL.
Never fails to crack me up - you see multiple water stops for a freaking 5k!!!
Or people out running (term used loosely) while loaded down w/ hydration vest and/or hip utility belt that would make Batman jealous.
Or people punting on a ride (which would only have been for an hour or 2 anyway) because they forgot their water bottles. WTF??
I routinely run up to 1.5 hours (or a little more) with ZERO. NADA. NOTHING.
No water, no gels, no electrolytes.
Ditto for biking, have done rides of up to 2 hours with absolutely nothing.
Or at most, a single small water bottle (which I often forget to even drink from).
I have a packet of Infinit I bought several years ago, and it's still unopened, since I rarely ride far enough (2.5+ hours) where I feel like I need anything like that.
Still working on the last bit of the prior packet from like 5 years ago.
Advertising works. Marketing works.
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