Cola at the gym.

[strider364]

This is something I've seen twice in the last two days at my gym, outside the caffine and sugar buzz, why on earth would you drink cola while you lift? Just wondering, is their some growth hormone releasing property?




I'll stick to water.

 

[Silverback316]

Jay Cutler drinks a coca cola after every workout. When he was leaving the gym the other day he told me that was his secret for size so there you go. I am being serious by the way.

 

[nautica]

Jay Cutler drinks a coca cola after every workout. When he was leaving the gym the other day he told me that was his secret for size so there you go. I am being serious by the way.

was that just after his shot of slin???

Nautica

 

[Bulldog_10]

Jay Cutler drinks a coca cola after every workout. When he was leaving the gym the other day he told me that was his secret for size so there you go. I am being serious by the way.

I can understand why he would drink soda AFTER a workout, just for the sugar and the insulin spike...but I don't know why someone would drink it DURING a workout...unless it was at the very end of the day

 

[sigweed]

this may be naive, but wouldn't the instand sugar and caffeine rush give you more energy for more powerful lifts?

 

[Diesel3d]

this may be naive, but wouldn't the instand sugar and caffeine rush give you more energy for more powerful lifts?

yes it will. but the carbonated water would suck because of burps and stuff.

i sip a whey / dextrose shake while i workout . It helps energy a lot.

 

[Baby Gorilla]

Poor choice....

If you want energy at the gym, juice would be better.

Soda's carbonic acid (soda water) dehydrates your system as your digestive tract has to use the carbonic acid buffer system to convert it to carbon dioxide and water.

Soda also demineralizes your body. Most people suffer from minieral depleation as it is. Enjoy one on occasion, not as a part of a diet.

 

[xsnrg]

Just call me a little old fasiond,give me a cold bottle of H2O any day.

 

[FarBeyondDriven]

was that just after his shot of slin???

Nautica

That would make sense to me.

I don't think I could stand the syruppy sweet stuff during a workout. I prefer plain old water filling my bottle at the fountain.

 

[macDbol]

i like sipping on a creatine/dex drink while i work out,,i tend to have longer more productive workouts

 

[strider364]

I couldn't agree more about drinking during a lift, I think it's awful. I see no benefits, more problems than it's worth.

 

[Hugh Gellatts]

no joke....one of the favorite race beverages of distance cyclists is flat coke. beats the hell outa me, but they like the stuff.

 

[rj420]

if you train with high intensity, a good glucose supplying drink does wonders during a workout.

 

[SUST-MAN]

They should pay him to be the Coke Spokes model...instead of britney

 

[MuscularWarrier]

I drink coke after each wo and yes I'm sure that has a natural trainer my gains would be much lesser without it. I would try it with D-Bol though becase thats one deadley combo.

Muscular Warrior

 

[Haz]

Hugh, you're right. I've been watching Le Tour De France, and those guys are knocking back cokes left and right. I figured that it was just for advertising purposes, and that they had some special home brew inside the can. But I guess you are right, its just coke. So maybe a cola ain't so bad for recovery and energy after all. Its alot cheaper then most energy drinks out there.

 

[drveejay11]

Just call me a little old fasiond,give me a cold bottle of H2O any day.

yup

 

[drveejay11]

This is something I've seen twice in the last two days at my gym, outside the caffine and sugar buzz, why on earth would you drink cola while you lift? Just wondering, is their some growth hormone releasing property?




I'll stick to water.

water ONLY for me me too

 

[ItalianSta]

maybe their doing slin before their workout .

 

[Beezers]

no joke....one of the favorite race beverages of distance cyclists is flat coke. beats the hell outa me, but they like the stuff.

These guys are consuming over 10,000 calories per day. I think coke(or any beverage of the like) is just a tasty way to get that caloric energy in. Flat coke is just sugar and water. They need high GI carbs en-route to quickly replensih thier muscle glycogen and sugar fits the bill....might as well make it tasy(coke).

 

[Hugh Gellatts]

well i made an oversimplification...i said flat coke. i remember that the biker i talked to specifically said "halfway" flat coke. he explained that the slight carbonation helped the caffeine kick in faster, and the caffeine from the coke did not cause stomach upset (some cyclist use injectable caffeine...the other option is those "power gel" thingies). he was also very into taking lactic acid buffers to prevent cramping...maybe there is something in coke that helps with that. the nature of road cycling, as opposed to distance running (where you can plan when to push it and when to coast) is that alot of the time these guys are forced to spend more time than optimal using the glycolitic/atp pathways (say they are going up a hill and cannot back off till they hit the top). so they will take anything that raises the lactic acid threshold.