Intra-workout carbohydrate drink
Sipping a carbohydrate drink through a session to keep fuel topped up
One or two scoops of fast carbohydrate, usually dextrose, cluster dextrin or plain sports drink, mixed into a bottle and drunk across a training session. The aim is to stop muscle glycogen and blood sugar sagging through a long or high-volume workout, which matters most to people training twice a day, dieting hard, or lifting for well over an hour. On a short session after a full meal the effect is probably small. Bodybuilders use it in prep partly for the pump and partly because chewing more food between sets is grim. It is sugar in a bottle, so the calories come off the day total.
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Does it: documented as part of their own routine. Recommends: explicitly advises other people to do it. Discusses: covered it substantively without clear personal adoption; this can include criticism or disagreement.
- Sam SulekDoes it
Bodybuilder and YouTuber · Spring Bulk gym vlogs
A carbohydrate drink goes down mid-session, about 100 grams on the day he counted, mixed in a bottle from Hosstile, whose supplement line sponsored him at the time. Blue Gatorade had been doing the same job before that.
Source: Fitness Volt: Bodybuilder Sam Sulek Shares 4,887-Calorie Winter Bulk Full Day Of Eating
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