Sports drinks

[Flyboy]

Come on - you've never seen a choc milkshake in a plastic bottle?

Oh god this is getting tough, how precise do I have to be ,
I have not seen those EXACT, bottles before , in them colours .
PS , please don't pick me up on Grammer and spelling now as am crap at that as well as observational skills.

 

[dim]

Which is odd, considering that High 5 products do not contain aspartame.

mine says (in tiny writing) .... food supplement with sweetener ...loads of other ingredients plus sorbitols, sucralose etc) .... read the cannister

not sure if sucralose is similar to asparatine, but I get the taste of asparatine when I use these tablets (I have the Citrus flavour) ....

 

[S-Express]

not sure if sucralose is similar to asparatine,

It's an artificial sweetener, so similar in purpose I guess - but without the methanol content of Aspartame

 

[Alan O]

I make up my own rehydration mix, of 6 tsps of sugar and 1/2 tsp of salt in 1 litre of water.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I use High5 tablets x 1 in a 750ml bottle, their suggestion of two tabs is too strong. The flavours can be a little bit iffy in tablet form, pink grapefruit is probably my preferred one followed by citrus.
On long rides I use High5 Energy Source powder in tropical flavour, that's very palatable. I've tried the caffeine version of energy source but I couldn't really feel a benefit.
If you want to try different ones, get the High5 event box from Halfords (and sometimes at Aldi). It's basically like a super trial pack with gels, powders, tablets, caffeine versions, pretty much a taste of the whole range plus you get a branded bottle which is one of the best cycling bottles you can find. You can't knock it for less than 7 quid.
http://www.halfords.com/cycling/tra...4JxGXnEzCAt2O32RfDjKoGHoUn8zZHzzwvBoCt9bw_wcB

 

[Flyboy]

I make up my own rehydration mix, of 6 tsps of sugar and 1/2 tsp of salt in 1 litre of water.

Does that taste ok , as it's a very cheap option if it tastes fine.

 

[Tim Hall]

I use water, with perhaps a hop flavoured carbonated rehydration fluid at lunch or after the ride.

 

[dim]

It's an artificial sweetener, so similar in purpose I guess - but without the methanol content of Aspartame

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/a...ormation-about-potential-harmful-effects.aspx

 

[bondirob]

High 5 tablets in one bottle
In the other about 4 or 5 table spoons of cane sugar

 

[Alan O]

Does that taste ok , as it's a very cheap option if it tastes fine.

It seems fine to me, yes - not too sugary and not too salty.

 

[stalagmike]

I read a book written by a German running guru in which he stated that a 50/50 mix of water and long-life apple juice was as equally isotonic as any of the fancy sport drinks out there. So that's what I drink when cycling and ill/hungover. Could be rubbish though of course.

 

[vickster]

Does that taste ok , as it's a very cheap option if it tastes fine.

Try it, we all like different things

Me, a skinny latte...and water if it's hot. Sometimes squash for long hot rides, v occasionally a high 5

 

[freiston]

As a youngster, I used to use Lift instant lemon tea - nice cold and very sweet. Nowadays I use water or a weak solution of fruity barley water. From what I've read, home made mixes with sweet drink and salt are more effective than the stuff sold in shops - partly due to the branded stuff making the drinks less salty to keep the taste more palatable. If I think I need salt, I munch on a salty snack like crisps or salted nuts.

I saw a programme on the TV some time ago (Dr Alice Roberts was in it) where they dehydrated people on exercise bikes (weighing them to see how much by) and then rehydrated them with either water, propriety isotonic drinks or milk and then re-weighing them - I can't recall it in detail but the upshot was that milk rehydrated better than water or the isotonic drinks (which performed as well as each other). The theory behind this that was offered was that because of the protein emulsion in milk, the body spent longer to digest it which in turn meant that the body had longer to absorb the water content (rather than it going 'straight through').

 

[lee_d_m]

Usually water with a scoop of Myprotein Maltodextrin powder and a High5 hydration tablet

 

[Mr Celine]

Orange squash, but check the ingredients start ' water, sugar....' It's getting harder to find real squash with sugar in it, so I'm currently using Tessiere blackcurrant syrup which you can now get in Asda. Alternatively just use water and add sugar to it.

Sports drinks are no better than water with added sugar - see this article.