Adding carbs to a protein drink

[Phineas]

I was reading an article on staying hydrated during workouts with protein/carb drinks. The article gave a guideline of 30g carbs + 15g protein/hour training. In the past whenever I've used my whey drinks during workouts it's generally a scoop to 2 scoops with a given amount of milk, which I guess has some sugar. Is this enough? Or, was the article not talking about simple sugars?

I know Built always suggests throwing in a shot of extra virgin olive oil, which I'm going to start doing. Would this make up for any lack of carbs?

Also, my brand of whey isolate is only 1g sugar/scoop.

 

[Marat]

There are no carbohydrates in extra virgin olive oil.

If you were to go with 2% milk, you'd take in about 13g of fat in order to get 30g of carbohydrates. Not necessarily a terrible thing, but I'm semi-confident that you may want to limit you fat intake during your training. Additionally not all the carbs in the milk are glucose polymers, you have a bunch of lactose in there. I believe glucose polymers (dextrose,starch) is what you want to be taking in for your periworkout nutrition.

Have a look at Perfect Carb. It's a dextrose product -- about 30g of carbs per scoop.

 

[suprfast]

Or just get a tub of quaker oats oatmeal. For breakfast i do the following

1 cup of lactaid milk
1/2 cup of quaker oats oatmeal
1 scoop(25g) of all the whey protein

Throw it in the vita mix with two ice cubes and in 10 seconds i have a nice shake with everything i need on the run. Its now my staple breakfast no matter what now.
kris

 

[tucker01]

powdered gatorade.