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Sports Drink
Aka: Sports Drink, Carbohydrate-Electrolyte Beverage
- See Also
- Sports Nutrition
- Indication
- Strenuous Exercise for longer than 45 minutes
- Precautions
- Ideal carbohydrate concentration: 5-7%
- Do not use as a standard non-Exercise beverage
- Too high calorie (350) for non-sports usage
- Efficacy
- Increased performance and speed in endurance sports
- Welsh (2002) Med Sci Sports Exerc 34(4): 723-31 [PubMed]
- Preparation: Homemade Recipe
- Unsweetened kool-aid, any flavor
- Sweetener
- Standard version: 8 tbs sugar (360 calories)
- Sugar-free version: 8 packets of Sugar Substitute
- 3/8 tsp Salt (110 mg Sodium)
- 1/8 tsp salt substitute (38 mg Potassium)
- 2 quarts of water