Last night at the dojo, after a relatively mild workout, one of the students grabbed a Gatorade. I used to do the same thing, your thirsty and Gatorade not only fixes that problem but puts essential things back into your body. I don’t know what these things are, i’m not a doctor, but they are essential the commercial told me so.

If you are trying to lose weight though, don’t buy into the hype. Fitness drinks, all of them, have calories. 1 Bottle of gatorade is between 100 and 200 calories. Depending on your weight you need to jog an extra 10 to 20 minutes to burn those calories you just put into your body to quench your thirst (http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc). Then, your thirsty again …

Do yourself a favor and just drink water after your 20 to 60 minute workout. It will save you money, it will save you calories (you’ll get all those things back when you eat!). Fitness drinks like gatorade have their place: running a marathon, playing in a sporting event, testing in martial arts, or other activities where you are trying to maintain peak physical performance throughout the activity for hours on end. In those situations you need the calories to continue functioning properly, as well as all those things. But if you are just working out, you’ll find that you get much more out of your workout if you don’t drink fitness drinks.

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