[ricw]

that is outdated advice. for one, some people sweat more than others, the salt levels in the sweat is totally different too. this means that if you're really serious about sport or are doing endurance races (ie 2 hours+) you should really not just use gatorade, but something where the mix of salt/water is closer to whatever you're sweating.

if i personally use gatorade for endurance exercise, i'll just cramp up after 90 minutes and not be able to ride normally. if i use a high salt mix instead, this isn't an issue whatsoever. I'm sure the exact same is true about food itself. remember that for the tour de france, last years time difference between the winner (Vingegaard) and the second (Pogadcar) was 8 minutes out of 82h 05' 42", aka only 0.16% faster overall. every single sub-percentage matters here.

there are tons of products that cater to this. the one i've been using is https://www.precisionhydration.com/ which is cheaper and more tailored than gatorade (i have no affiliation to them).

[0_____0]

I basically just add salt to Gatorade and cut it with extra sugar and malto. It's a couple extra steps but I train regularly enough that I make a concentrate (100ml=200kcal) that I put in bottle and dilute as needed.

[hinkley]

One of the runners I mined for training advice was using gatorade to take salt tabs. That was not the advice I took from him, though. I will probably avoid at least one injury from other things he said.

[JAlexoid]

> that is outdated advice. for one, some people sweat more than others, the salt levels in the sweat is totally different too.

People forget that. They just follow "salt is killing you" advice, meanwhile I sweat salt like it's water. Last race I did had the sense to add salty potato chips to their rest stops... I didn't cramp up.

Meanwhile Gatorade is absolute trash for electrolyte maintenance for someone like myself.

[hinkley]

The people drinking a gallon of water (not fluids, just water) a day are often flushing out electrolytes. There are a lot of things you might expect a doctor to yell at you about in an ER but from what I understand coming in with heart palpitations triggered by low potassium due to over-hydrating is a good one.

[hinkley]

Yeah I wasn't talking about electrolytes, just calories per minute. The top level was about glucose monitoring not electrolyte monitoring.

It's funny that Precision uses almost exactly the same bottle as Nuun.