I play competitive soccer and I have heard many different things about rehydrating during and after practice and games. My trainer said to drink water during the game, and an energy drink, gatorade being the best, after to replenish our muscles. However, my aunt, who is a nutritionist, said to drink gatorade during the game and water after. To make it even more confusing, i read in a health book that gatorade is not good for you because of all the fake sugar, and to drink Replenish (i’ve never heard of it) or a sweetened water (which our trainer told us not to drink because it doesnt have the right electrolytes or sodium)
please help me! I want to know how to keep hydrated when doing any type of exercise, but especially soccer.
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Here is the simple biochem:
1. Drink water during exercise to replenish fluids.
If you eat a good nutritious diet, you don’t need more.
2. After heavy exercise, you deplete muscle glucose and want to replenish it. The best drink would be glucose water… kinda hard to find. The next bet is sucrose water…. electrolytes and sodium are not consequential (If you needed electrolytes, bad things would be happening to you, like fainting on the field.)
3. Don’t use anything that has fructose, or high fructose corn syrup, or corn syrup. This is not good for you. There is unproven anecdotal suggestion that high fructose corn syrup can stress the liver and lead to diabetes… not proven. But
Gatorade used to have sugar. Now it has high fructose corn syrup…Now you know… Read the label and if it has corn syrup, don’t use it (It won’t hurt you once or twice)… but go for sucrose.
Note: Don’t drink sucrose if you are getting a cold. Regular table sugar – sucrose – depresses your immune system… and you will catch the cold…
It is a cool experiment … but don’t do it more than once…
gatorade would be bad for osmeone who does regular exercising that isnt very intense. but since u are a competitive soccer player i would listen to ur aunt, drink gatorade during the game to replinish ur electrolytes and water after if u’re still thirsty.
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I try to drink water. They also have the flavored waters now. If I don’t feel like water I will drink Gatorade.
CLEAN COOL WATER, IT’S NATURES BEST…
Water is your best bet. Too much sugar in gatorade and the like.
I’ve always been taught gatorade 1-1/2 hr before, water during. And then gatorade again after.
But water is ALWAYS good. So don’t *sweat* it.
Get it? Hehe!
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