Performance Energy Bar /Gel

[iceangel 0]

do u eat any Performance Energy Bar / Gel before hockey training/games. Which variety of flavors do you prefer?

[crazylegs_9 0]

Snickers Marathon--Multigrain Crunch

[cougarscaptain87 12]

stay away from the powerbar gel, i tried it one time and it was very filling, and seemed to dehydrate me becasue it was so thick and goey. but i am a big fan of the regular power bars and a small gatorade before any game/practice when i have the time.

[Gongshow11 1]

u need to chase every bite of the gel with like a cup of water.

[Sven 1]

u need to chase every bite of the gel with like a cup of water.

Exactly. Its concentrated and you need to drink water with it. Just to add it here, its important to drink a lot of water/fluids.

[tbintexas 0]

If I feel like I'm losing energy, I'll take a mouthful of honey between periods - works great, is very close to the makeup of PowerGel, and is much cheaper.

[OhMyGodImOnFire 0]

I used to use the snickers bar (and the multi-grain crunch was one of my favs) but now I use Clif Bars, which, I'm pretty sure, are a lot healthier. I've also experimented with sport beans (energy jelly beans), but my advice is to only use one energy food at one time. I used energy bars plus the beans, which equaled zero energy. Maybe just me, or I was having a weird day, but I'm never doing that again.

Also, Protein shakes work fairly well for energy.

[crazylegs_9 0]

I've done the shakes before, and they seem to work well. To be completely honest if your stomach is not used to whey...it may give you the shits, just a warning.

[avs9119 0]

snickers marathon bars- cookies and cream, peanut butter, and caramel are all good flavors

[sc37 0]

Snickers are yummy good for my bike rides, but lotta sugar too like Sport Beans. Drinking straight Gatorade was easier to deal with than the beans...all that sugar got crud in my throat. And yeah, whey before a game isn't a good thing even if your used to it..at least for me. Always makes me feel like I'm gonna upchuck. I found the best thing for me to eat is those Nature Valley crunchy granola bars or just heaps of peanut butter on wheat.

[Gongshow11 1]

if you're going to use gatorade to replenish youself, make sure its 1/3 water, 2/3 gatordade

[godiogo 0]

Why is that?

[kovalchuk71 212]

Because Gatorade is too concentrated in the bottle. Too much sugar and such.

[nni 0]

snickers marathon are candy bars with a dash of protein, in other words they are crap.

7% carb solution is ideal for endurance sports. i prefer cytomax during games.

i dont know how old you guys are, so i dont know what exactly to recommend, but at its simplest form, just drink a carb solution (preferably not hfcs) before the game. avoid energy type products as you will inevitably crash from the caffeine.

something like body octane from man sports or driven from mrm would be an excellent idea for endurance and sustained energy pre game. carbs during game, and protein (or eaa's) + carbs post game,.

[TBLfan 25]

I hydrate myself a lot with some gatorade and then some water, if I don't hydrate myself with gatorade first, I start to run out of energy. I can feel my legs just die.

From a class on drugs I've taken, drugs like caffine take a while to react in the body. In fact it can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours to feel the effect. From what I have heard, ginseng is what gives you the first kick of energy and the caffeine kicks in after. The problem is that you might crash before the caffeine kicks in... and being that most of us are used to taking caffeine; we have developed a tolerance to it, so you might not even react to it or the benefits might be unnoticeable.

[nni 0]

there was an interesting study that showed a combination of caffeine, choline and carnitine raised Vo2Max levels. caffeine has its place, but otherwise you can do yourself better with a carb drink that ginseng. anything that energizes will give you a crash. it is better to focus on endurance than energy. getting ready to play should be enough to get you energized.

[jeffw 1]

Snickers Marathon--Multigrain Crunch

+1

[AnthonyJTa 0]

if you're going to use gatorade to replenish youself, make sure its 1/3 water, 2/3 gatordade

A little off topic, but any of you guys ever do Pedialyte? When I was playing net in a roller league, I'd go 1/3 water, 2/3 Pedialyte.... I would feel a hell of a lot better the next morning than water or Gatorade.

[nni 0]

from what i know i think pedialye is dextrose and electrolytes. dextrose is just a fast acting carb that you can get for like $2 a pound. you could easily get that, some kool-aid packets and an electrolyte powder (hammer nutrition sells one) and make a really effective cheap sports drink. 7% carbs which for a 20oz drink would be 40grams.

like i said previously studies have shown that hydrolyzed rice syrup is even better than dextrose as it gets absorbed into the blood stream faster, and is used in extreme cases of dehydration.

actually i am finally rehabbed enough to get back on the ice, so i will be testing out some HRS this weekend.

[sc37 0]

if you're going to use gatorade to replenish youself, make sure its 1/3 water, 2/3 gatordade

A little off topic, but any of you guys ever do Pedialyte? When I was playing net in a roller league, I'd go 1/3 water, 2/3 Pedialyte.... I would feel a hell of a lot better the next morning than water or Gatorade.

Football teams do that...and they even actually get the Pedialyte popsicles to help 'em cool off during the summer workouts.

[Jim A 4]

Gatorade/Powerade are the worst things for you in terms of the isotonics out there...so much simple sugars..its like the Mike Judge movie "but it has electrolytes"

Cytomax - which has only 3g of sugar and Accelerade's newly launched Ready to Drink (will be easily found soon..currently its mostly in 7-11) is great as well..it will take a time or two to get used to the protein in it..

if you are looking for something more like a meal replacement in the same caloric range (200 cal) look at Mix1..www.mix1life.com plus it also mixes well with rum :)

[nni 0]

simple sugars are not bad for recovery at all, so you are off there. you still want to avoid HFCS, that is where they fail. cytomax is simply a better choice, but even that 12g of sugar and most are simple. Accelerade rtd's sugar source is trehalose which i believe is a lower gi slower acting sugar. sugars are not bad during/after a game, in fact they are completely necessary to replenish your glycogen stores, granted there are some better and worse choices, but gatorade powder is not a bad option at all.

[Jim A 4]

yes a bit simplistic on my part for not discussing HFCS....I thought that Cyto is down to 3g of sugars on their newest release of RTD...I will say that both it and Accelerade "empty well" in the work we've done with clients and athletes...both are more core brands though although accel is trying to change that with their upcoming launch ....my biggest peeve on something like Gatorade is that it hasn't changed that much since it really hit retail in the 70's...in most other instances we don't use items from the 70's (imagine using skates without tuuks, old northland sticks etc, car designs..and god help us...disco music..)

[nni 0]

but there really isnt a need. the research still states a 7% carb solution is ideal which gatorade has, and electrolytes which it has. sure it can find a better carb source or add amino acids, but in its simplest form gatorade is serviceable, in powder form at least where they use dextrose in lieu of HFCS. also it is owned by a mega corp now, so why do they need to innovate? smaller companies like endurox and cytosport will supply the innovation for us. i personally use cytomax powder during games, and like i said previously will start using HRS this weekend. from everything thing i read it seems to be THE carb source for endurance athletes.

[BK 0]

I think you need powerthirst.