The college football team im currently playing on gives gatorade performance series energy drinks after we lift. It has a fructose-glucose syrup and maltodextrin in it for a total of 80 grams of carbs. I add bcaas to it along with glutamine and then i have 30 grams of whey protein isolate after that. On the gatorade sight it claims that a sport drink should have fructose glucose and sucrose. It says maltodextrin has no benefits and that drinking aminos like bcaas during training has no benefit. Berardi says it does and I believe him but the gatorade sight has a reference for their statements… anyone care to check it out?
Berardi has references too. See “solving the post workout puzzle” articles.
So, a sports drink should have fructose-glucose AND sucrose in the same drink? I think that’s stupid. Sucrose is essentially a glucose-fructose disaccharide. It’s the same stuff. IMHO a post work-out sports drink should have a good source of glucose. Glucose is what your muscles need to recover. The fructose is just a waste of time. Starch, maltodextrin are both good sources of glucose
btw: I’m currently toying with the idea of having insulin elevated during a workout without having blood-sugar elevated. This would force the muscles to use more of their glycogen stores during the workout (so the glycogen has a better chance of supercompensating). But the insulin would prevent the cortisol from going haywild. The only thing I can currently think of that has a hi Insulin index is maybe cottage cheese or milk. Not much glucose in those (immediately, anyway) for increasing blood sugar.
actually cottage cheese doesnt have a high insulin index… but milk sure does
Also, Gatorade has a push going on with the NCAA to of course keep their drink as the main “supplement” and get creatine and amino acids out of the picture. So much so that the S&C coaches are not permitted to give out creatine and they are not permitted to give out singular (or grouped) AAs or even give out protein supps that are greater than 30% of the supp volume! Talk about bull - the NCAA is really full of it. So, you have to buy it yourself, I guess.