Best Sports Drink While Climbing

Yoda Jedi Knight wrote:

Didn't say it was any better. The benefit is hydrating and consuming a macronutrient. Seriously, what is your point?

Edit: @Todd, I think now we just wait for the post-limit "feature" to expire. Honestly, I don't think I've ever seen an interaction with Marc801 C that wasn't just unnecessarily argumentative. I don't understand that guy.

The whole ostensible point of collagen supplementation is for tendon/joint health over a long course of use. You're flushing money down the drain if you're using it as an intraworkout supplement for calories/hydration/general protein supplement - it's not a complete protein so it's not efficient at muscle building, plus it's mostly getting converted to carbs anyway - there's a reason endurance athletes eat mostly 'empty' carb sources intraworkout.

This is supposed to be 'best sports drinks' not 'things I can do with my money that aren't actively hurting me'. It's not an efficient use of money, nor is it the best or most effective sports drink.

MattH wrote:

The whole ostensible point of collagen supplementation is for tendon/joint health over a long course of use. You're flushing money down the drain if you're using it as an intraworkout supplement for calories/hydration/general protein supplement - it's not a complete protein so it's not efficient at muscle building, plus it's mostly getting converted to carbs anyway - there's a reason endurance athletes eat mostly 'empty' carb sources intraworkout.

This is supposed to be 'best sports drinks' not 'things I can do with my money that aren't actively hurting me'. It's not an efficient use of money, nor is it the best or most effective sports drink.

Thank you for making my point far more eloquently than I did. 

How about that, nobody has mentioned RedBull, the chosen beverage of all (redbull) athletes!

MattH wrote:

The whole ostensible point of collagen supplementation is for tendon/joint health over a long course of use. You're flushing money down the drain if you're using it as an intraworkout supplement for calories/hydration/general protein supplement - it's not a complete protein so it's not efficient at muscle building, plus it's mostly getting converted to carbs anyway - there's a reason endurance athletes eat mostly 'empty' carb sources intraworkout.

This is supposed to be 'best sports drinks' not 'things I can do with my money that aren't actively hurting me'. It's not an efficient use of money, nor is it the best or most effective sports drink.

That's a lot of assumptions you made there.  

1.  The whole point is not always collagen supplementation, broth is full of electrolytes and is believed to support healthy immune function, gut health and has anti-inflammatory properties that are touted by professional athletes and supported by their team physicians. (google Kobe Bryant Bone Broth Atlanta Hawks)

2.  My bone broth is fairly reasonably priced.  If I can't find a butcher who'll give me bones that were going in the trash, then I can find them reasonably priced somewhere.  $10 worth of bones will make about 3 quarts of broth that is so rich in the good collagens you mentioned that it turns gelatinous when cooled.  Also, you get to control some of the electrolytes by adding or restricting your Himalayan Sea Salt.

3.  Endurance athletes.....please.  We're talking about a day at the crag, not a speed climbing competition.  We're outside in the elements where sometimes the warmth of the broth is exactly what your body and soul both need. 

4.  It's not the best or most effective sports drink?  Well, funny story, a group of Iowa State University researchers actually did the research to compare broth to gatorade as a sports drink.  Their research concluded the broth was better and their study was published in the American Journal of Physiology.  

Todd Jenkins wrote:

1.  google Kobe Bryant Bone Broth Atlanta Hawks

Ummmmm……what? Kobe played for the Lakers, or am I missing something? 

4.  It's not the best or most effective sports drink?  Well, funny story, a group of Iowa State University researchers actually did the research to compare broth to gatorade as a sports drink.  Their research concluded the broth was better and their study was published in the American Journal of Physiology.  

Link? This sounds interesting. Not surprising though, the amount of unnecessary sugar in Gatorade is a little wack 

Surprised no one else believes in the most sustainable drink....breast milk! 

Princess Puppy Lovr wrote:

Surprised no one else believes in the most sustainable drink....breast milk! 

Psssssht….who brings their mom to the crag amiright?

Princess Puppy Lovr wrote:

Surprised no one else believes in the most sustainable drink....breast milk! 

The packaging, while very convenient, isn't remotely leak proof though. 

water.   or better yet, beer.

Marc hasn't suggested his alternative but anybody suggesting that you should be drinking liquid IV and gatorade over bone broth is beyond reasoning. Even so, I'll give it a quick shot. 

@MattH Collagen synthesis occurs most effectively during activity, not post activity, thus it is beneficial over time to consume it during sessions. It's loaded with the same electrolytes you'd get from any synthetically produced gatorade or sports drinks, and then some. It's warm and delicious, and admittedly, I consume it much more often during late fall/winter/early spring than I do during the summer. The amount of sugar in any sports drink is a nutrient-sink during digestion and certainly not beneficial to a 10-12 hour day out climbing, though could be quick "cheap" energy.

I'll put my bone broth and beetroot up against your gatorade and whiskey any day. ;)

The BEST sports drink during climbing is bone broth. Or is it whiskey-spiked bone broth?

Edit: Broth Iowa

This is the study mentioned above, though it's from 1998 and doesn't quite make the points I'm making above. Seems like a very amateurish, incomplete study, and it was funded by Campbell Soup lol.

What would Stevie Haston quaff?

Bone broth sounds like it tastes awful!

Doug Chism wrote:

Bone broth sounds like it tastes awful!

Yeah, no thanks!

What ingredient do all these miracle Sport drinks have that makes them possible? Oh yeah, water!