Dale Mabry

The drink should be uncarbonated.


MYCAT-If you are going to have any sugar at all that day, have it immediately after or during your workout. If you are not going to have sugar or are low carbing it, I would just drink water and/or maybe BCAAs to prevent catabolism. It comes down to this. You are given a free window immediately after your workout where the sugar you ingest is more than likely not going to be stored as fat so that is when you should drink it. Of course, if your glycogen stores are full then you will gain fat, but chances are you have burned a good bunch of it during your workout. You figure during an hour workout you can burn 300-400 cals which will be almost exclusively carbs. This amounts to 100g of carbs you can replace and be relatively sure it is not going to be stored as fat. You have 90 minutes or so for this to hold true. You can google this info and find tons of studies on it.

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your muscles need glycogen in order to properly work...

"During exercise or muscle contraction uses glycogen stores to meet the energy demands of the working muscle". [Bergstrom, J., Hultman, E. 1966. Muscle glycogen synthesis after exercise: an enhancing factor localized to the muscle cells in man. Nature (London) 210; 309-310.]

glycogen will also helps keep cortisol in check, when taken during training....

"Drinking carbohydrate drinks during weight-training workouts caused elevated blood glucose and insulin levels, which led to a significant blunting of cortisol release. Cortisol rose only 7 percent in the carb-drink group and 99 percent in the placebo group. After 12 weeks those subjects showed a 19.1 percent increase in type 1 muscle fiber area and a 22.5 percent increase in type 2 muscle fiber area over what the zero-calorie-drink group experienced". [Tarpenning, K.M., et al. (2001). Influence of weight-training exercise and modification of hormonal response on skeletal muscle growth. J Science and Medicine in Sport. 4:431-436.]

"A carbohydrate drink consumed during resistance training can lower physiological stress and inflammation secondary to exercise". [ D.C. Nieman, “Exercise Immunology: Nutritional Counter measures”. Can. J. Appl. Physiol. 26 (2001): S45-S55.]

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lecarl

water 3/4 of a bottle - around an hour workout

kenwood

i get about 10-15drinks from the fountain durin my workouts ...last friday i drank cellmass duringthe last 10-15min. of my workout . i had cellmass in a plastic bag and i bought a water there and then i sat on a bench and poured it into the bottle and then closed it and shook it . the guy from the counter i bought it from was doin laundry(towels) and when he walked past me he noticed that my water went from clear to red lol. he was prolly thinkin wtf did he put in it lol.

JordanMang

After watching you do a 400+ bench probably steroids.

CowPimp

I know it's an old thread, but since it might be helpful...

I drink a little of my PWO shake at the onset of my workout and a couple sips here and there throughout. I pound down the rest at the end of the workout as I'm stretchin. My PWO shake consists of 8oz of skim milk, 2 scoops of whey, and 70g of dextrose.

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I find milk too hard for my system to tolerate while doing any kind of strenuous activity.

viet_jon

water

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Spud

I drink water... lots of it.

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fufu

I drink about 32 ounces pre workout(throughout the morning), and probably 8-12 ounces during depending on how much I sweat.

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RippedNYLifter

Water.