Workout and Meal Plan of the Day from Your Own Coach!
What would it be like to wake up every morning with a workout and meal plan waiting in your mailbox, from your own Coach?
Sneak Peak:

BodySite 2.1 Food Diary and Meal Planning Sneak Preview
Starting in April, MyBodySite.com will introduce guided fitness plans and meal planning. It’s so simple. You pick a Coach whose plan you want to follow and your Coach puts all of the information you need right in your mailbox, every day. Besides actually working out and eating for you, your fitness will basically be solved, for you, every day.
Here’s what is coming in April:
-Workout of the day from your coach
-Meal plan of the day from your coach
-Customize the meal plan for your own calorie, fat, protein, carb and even sugar consumption goals.
-Track everything you eat using the world’s largest, most comprehensive and easiest to use food database of over 50,000 foods including every brand name imaginable. We’re not kidding about this. You won’t believe it when you see it.
-Track foods by grams, cups, ounces, serving sizes and many other options
-Group support every step of the way, led by your Coach
-Facebook-like profile pages, newsfeed
-Receive alerts, reminders and notifications via email, text and iPhone feed.
-So much more . . .
Here is a sneak peek at the new locker room page that displays all of your notifications, details about your workout of the day and your meal plan for they day, all one page, when you log in:

BodySite 2.1 Locker Room Sneak Peek
The view above assumes you want to see TODAY when you log in. But if you want to look at the whole month, you can!

BodySite 2.1 Calendar Workout and Meals Planning Page Sneak Peek
And, by popular demand, we have adopted the best in class food database and calorie counting software on the net, hands down. We can’t tell you more yet but every food, every brand is available (over 50,000 foods), trackable by calories, fat, protein, carbs, sugar, sodium in every possible portion size (cups, grams, ounces) to make meal planning and tracking a “piece of cakes” (520 calories).

BodySite 2.1 Food and Meal Planning and Calorie Counter Sneak Preview
Wanted: A few good coaches.
If you’re a trainer, nutritionist or any kind of fitness expert that can lead people to fitness by providing exercise and nutritional guidance, be the first to know when the Coaches Preview is ready for testing. Register for the notification today. Click here.
Happy Holidays with Safflower Oil
Happy Holidays!
You’re probably wrapping presents and potentially wrapping some extra fat around your waistline this month. Don’t fret. The New Year is coming and with it, a fresh start. But here’s an idea that you don’t have to wait on. Safflower oil.
Safflower Oil Benefits
You already know the benefits of using certain vegetable oils in cooking and salad dressings. Safflower oil is not just a healthier choice than other oils you might choose but also offers a way to help your body get rid of fat.
As safflower oil contains high amounts of polyunsaturated fats, it helps in creation of prostaglandins in the body. These hormone like compounds aid in strengthening the cell membranes and also in the proper functioning of the body.
One of the best benefits of safflower oil is that it can help to eliminate excess fat accumulated in the body. Brown fat is present in several areas of the body and is a major factor that aids in burning calories. The cis-linoleic acid present in safflower oil gets converted into gamma linolenic acid (GLA) that triggers the brown fat to burn calories. Therefore, people who are looking for ways to lose as well as maintain their weight should include safflower oil in their regular diet.
Safflower oil also helps in the reduction of cholesterol levels in the blood which can reduce the risk of heart diseases. Apart from this, safflower oil is also said to strengthen the immune system which increases your ability to resist certain infections and diseases.
Many doctors and dietitians recommend safflower oil to obese people suffering from diabetes. Research has been conducted to find the benefits of safflower oil in older diabetic women who are overweight. Women were asked to take safflower oil supplements for a period of sixteen weeks, and they not only lost excess fat, but had a significant decline in blood sugar levels.
Get Your Oil On
So how do you get it? Well, you can take tablets but you would need to take up to 8 tablets a day. Yuck. The best way to take safflower oil is to simply eat it. Buy a bottle of safflower oil and get two tablespoons a day. You can include it in soups, over salads, and cook with it. Start incorporating it every day and start burning the fat.
Simple Biking Cycling Safety
This article won’t strike anyone as rocket science and it’s not about wearing your helmet (you should) or sticking to bike lanes (you better). I learned a simple lesson last week about almost getting crushed like a grape on the side of the road. It’s called the “right cross” on a very helpful site (http://bicyclesafe.com) that I found after I started to write this blog entry.
John’s Lesson 247 about bike safety. People can’t see you crossing their path as they enter the road you’re on. Or if they can see you, they don’t think that you’ll actually ride in front of their car while they are at that stop (or yield) sign.
I had great success today as I encountered nearly a dozen instances of this. Luckily for me, I can whistle really loud without any hands or even louder if I want to use my fingers. But what I found most effective was a wave of the hand as I was approaching the car sitting to my right. In all but one case, the driver understood what I was doing and gave me a nod, which I took to mean he would let me pass without killing me. I guess I could be wrong but it worked really well. On the other occasion, I simply braked quickly, slowed down, and went behind the car, shaking my head in frustration. How dare they! :)
Here is the article posted at bicyclesafe.com. A really good treatment of all of the other hazards that get us killed on the road.
This is the most common ways to get hit (or almost get hit).(source) A car is pulling out of a side street, parking lot, or driveway on the right. Notice that there are actually two possible kinds of collisions here: Either you’re in front of the car and the car hits you, or the car pulls out in front of you and you slam into it.
How to avoid this collision:
1. Get a headlight. If you’re riding at night, you should absolutely use a front headlight. It’s required by law, anyway. Even for daytime riding, a bright white light that has a flashing mode can make you more visible to motorists who might otherwise Right Cross you. Look for the new LED headlights which last ten times as long on a set of batteries as old-style lights. And helmet- or head-mounted lights are the best, because then you can look directly at the driver to make surethey see your light.
2. Honk. Get a loud horn and use it whenever you see a car approaching (or waiting) ahead of you and to the right. If you don’t have a horn, then yell “Hey!” You may feel awkward honking or yelling, but it’s better to be embarrassed than to get hit. Incidentally, many countries require bells on bicycles, but the U.S. doesn’t.
3. Slow down. If you can’t make eye contact with the driver (especially at night), slow down so much that you’re able to completely stop if you have to. Sure, it’s inconvenient, but it beats getting hit. Doing this has saved my life on too many occasions to count.
4. Ride further left. You’re probably used to riding in the “A” line in the picture, very close to the curb, because you’re worried about being hit from behind. But take a look at the car. When that driver is looking down the road for traffic, he’s not looking in the bike lane or the area closest to the curb; he’s looking in the middle of the lane, for other cars. The farther left you are (such as in “B”), the more likely the driver will see you. There’s an added bonus here: if the motorist doesn’t see you and starts pulling out, you may be able to go evenfarther left, or may be able to speed up and get out of the way before impact, or easily roll onto their hood as they slam on their brakes. In short, it gives you some options. Because if you stay all the way to the right and they pull out, your only “option” may be to run right into the driver’s side door. Using this method has saved me on three occasions in which a motorist ran into me slowly as they hit their brakes and I wasn’t hurt, and in which I definitely would have slammed into the driver’s side door had I not moved left.
Of course, there’s a tradeoff. Riding to the far right makes you invisible to the motorists ahead of you at intersections, but riding to the left makes you more vulnerable to the cars behind you. Your actual lane position may vary depending on how wide the street is, how many cars there are, how fast and how close they pass you, and how far you are from the next intersection. On fast roadways with few cross streets, you’ll ride farther to the right, and on slow roads with many cross streets, you’ll ride farther left.
As posted at http://bicyclesafe.com
MyBodySite Announces Free Premium Membership
Starting today, everyone has access to all of our premium features at no charge. If you were paying to be premium, your billing will stop immediately. If you were a basic user, welcome to PREMIUM membership, for FREE!
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Or, log in . . .
Premium Features:
MyBodySite has dozens of amazing features to help you figure out your fitness. But there are a whole set of features that “premium” membership unlocks for you:
Plan your meals . . .
Our database of 30,000 foods lets you keep track of every bite you eat so that you can stay on track with your diet. The Premium feature of the food diary lets you create and save meals so that you don’t have to keep searching for the same foods and keep building the same meals. Just save them and use them next time!
Access and steal everyone else’s workouts . . .
You can build a workout from scratch on MyBodySite but maybe you don’t want to. No problem. With Premium workouts, you can view everyone else’s workouts and claim them as your own. Looking for a leg workout? Search for one, “steal” it and then it’s yours to print, modify and use over and over. You can even search by user, so that you can find workouts from people who are already in shape.
See Videos in our Exercise Video Library . . .
View hundreds of video examples showing proper form on hundreds of exercises in the Premium exercise video library.
Get Custom Alerts and Reminders on our Phone . . .
Want to be reminded about your afternoon snack or be told on your cell that someone replied to your message. You can, with cell phone alerts and custom reminders. Never miss that glass of water or workout reminder again. Get it on your phone.
Enhanced Access & Privacy Features . . .
Set your food page, workout page or progress page to private at your option. And, view the food, workout and progress pages of every other member for any date in the past. This is great for following that personal trainer or really fit person you’ve had your eye on. Talk about motivation!
Coming in 2010 - Customized, guided workouts and meal plans from hundreds of personal trainers. Are you a personal trainer? Would you like to be a coach on our site? Click here to be notified when we launch our test version of MyBodySite.com 3.0.
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Calling All Trainers, Nutritionists, Coaches
MyBodySite.com is looking for a few good men and women to participate as coaches when we roll out MyBodySite.com 3.0. We’re working like crazy right now to rebuild the platform so that you, the coach, will have all of the tools you need to easily train dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of people, effortlessly. And for a profit too.
Using the knowledge you already have, you’ll be able to help countless people reach their fitness goals. Don’t take our word for it. Be part of it. Help us shape it. To get advance notice of the release of our test version, please be sure to join our Version 2.1 release mailing list. Don’t tell ANYONE! This is totally top secret.
How Much Sugar is in That Food or Drink?
Do you know how much sugar you’re eating every day? Most of us don’t but statistics estimate that the average American consumes between 90 and 180 POUNDS of sugar each year. POUNDS!
Let’s look at a visual of that. Here are some 5 pound bags of sugar. In an average year, you’ll enjoy 20 to 36 of them. Remember, these are the 5 pound bags that you pull out of the pantry to bake with. Try eating 20 of them.





But that’s not helpful, is it? You want to know how in the world that can happen. Where is all of this sugar coming from? Well here are some visuals. Please share this with everyone you know. It’s the best visual I’ve ever seen to show the amount of sugar in what we eat. Choose wisely!

Sugar in Coke

Sugar in Mountain Dew

Sugar in Red Bull

Sugar in Snapple Iced Tea

Sugar in Lemonade

Sugar in Orange Juice

Sugar in a Juice Box

Sugar in Chips Ahoy Cookies

Sugar in Oreos Cookies

Sugar in Snickers Bar

Sugar in Skittles

Sugar in Starburst

Sugar in Haagen Dazs Ice Cream

Sugar in Jello

Sugar in Grapes

Sugar in Cantelope

Sugar in Oranges

Sugar in Apples

Sugar in Bananas

Sugar in Peaches

Sugar in Strawberries

Sugar in Watermelon

Sugar in Pineapple

Sugar in Carrots

Sugar in Corn

Sugar in Ketchup

Sugar in Thousand Island

Sugar in Prego Sauce

Sugar in a Cinnabon

Sugar in Syrup

Sugar in Cheerios

Sugar in Trix Cereal

Sugar in Starbucks

Sugar in Jamba Juice

Sugar in a Shake

Sugar in a McFlurry
Honey, Does This Squat Rack Make Me Look Fat?
Filed under: Weight Training, Women's Fitness, mens-fitness
Like a good husband assessing his wife’s newest bathing suit purchase, the answer is always “NO!” Squats and other resistance training exercises will not make you big and bulky. What they will do is create muscle, which in turn helps you in your efforts to burn fat. As a result, you’ll lose weight and you’ll look thinner and healthier. (see video below)
I spend an hour at the gym 3 or 4 times a week and I see the same people pretty much every time I go. There are those who spend time in the free weight area and those who spend time on the bikes and treadmills. Some do both. But I notice that there is a group of people who kill themselves, some every single day, doing a half hour or more on the treadmill or an hour on the recumbent or stationary bike. And I know they’re telling themselves and maybe even their friends, “I workout every day for an hour and I just can’t make any progress.”
Get Off The Treadmill
Can I please tell you to stop doing it? Cardio” is a good thing. It is. You really should incorporate it into your workout a few days a week. Tack it on to your workout after you do your resistance training if you like or set aside days in between your resistance training workouts to do your cardio. And do cardio you enjoy! Get out on a real bike, go for a brisk walk or jog. But if you’re one of the people that is slaving away on the treadmill, bike or other cardio routine every day, because your goal is to get smaller, skinnier, lose fat, BURN IT ALL OFF, please stop, and start lifting some weights.
Resistance Training
The phrase ‘resistance training’ includes weight lifting but does not have to include weights to be resistance training. For example, performing a squat using just your body weight, is an example of resistance training. Pushups, pull-ups, bench press (with a bar or dumbbells or cans of soup), etc. are all examples. What distinguishes resistance training from cardio is the use of sets with rest in between and the fact that each set is performed with an amount of weight that causes you to approach muscle failure after a number of repetitions.
For example, to train your legs, you might do squats with no weight or with dumbbells for 10-15 repetitions, depending on your level of fitness. If you do them properly (see video) and you’re using enough weight (resistance), you should fatigue and not be able to do any more after you squat 10-15 times. At this point you should rest for 2-3 minutes to catch your breath and then do another set of 10-15 reps. If you’re new to this, don’t work to failure. Just work until you don’t feel like you should not do any more reps. What’s happening during a resistance training workout is that you are actually breaking down muscle tissue. That’s why you work almost to failure and rest in between sets. After 2-3 sets of this exercise, you can move on to another exercise and workout in similar fashion (watch the articles list for sample exercises and workouts).
A resistance training workout should last no more than 30-45 minutes unless you are an experienced weight lifter. You can normally perform several exercises for 2-3 sets per exercise and 10-15 repetitions per exercise. At the end of a workout for your legs, your legs will be a little rubbery and you’ll probably experience soreness the next day or so. You should not work these muscles again for at least several days. The reason for this is that muscle growth does not occur while you’re working the muscle. It occurs during the rest period after the workout as your muscles repair themselves and seek to be stronger for your next workout. The cycle of muscle repair is also what causes your metabolism to continue to burn fat long after your workout (which is NOT true of cardio).
Here’s a typical leg workout that might work for someone looking to do just legs in a short amount of time:
Squats - 2- 3 sets of 10-15 repetitions with 2-3 minutes rest in between (gluteus, quadriceps and hamstrings)
Lunges - 2-3 sets of 10-15 repetitions with 2-3 minutes rest in between sets (same but more emphasis on hamstrings)
Standing Calf Raises - 2-3 sets of 10-15 repetitions with 2-3 minutes rest in between sets (calf)
Depending on your level of strength and conditioning, you might add 2-3 sets of either a leg curl or a leg extension but if you’re a beginner, wait and see how the basic workout works for you and you can increase your weight or add an exercise next week.
After a day of rest, you can move on to an upper body workout. Watch for an article with some sample upper body workouts. Also, don’t forget to do some cardio AFTER or in between resistance training days.
Consult your doctor before beginning any exercise program to make sure you don’t cause yourself any injury!
For more exercises, exercise routines and workout programs, please visit the workouts section of MyBodySite.com.
10 Ways to Start Losing Weight Now
Losing weight is hard for everyone. If you want to lose weight and you’ve ‘tried everything’, try the following tips. Don’t do all of them. Don’t do them in order. Just pick one and give it a try for a few days. Then try another one. If you can do all ten, you’ll be shedding pounds in no time.
1. Don’t Go on a Diet! Stop thinking of ‘diet’ as starving or depriving yourself or as a new and interesting approach to eating. The dictionary’s first two definitions for ‘diet’ are ‘food and drink regularly consumed’ and ‘habitual nourishment.’ So don’t ‘go on a diet’. You’re already on a diet. You just need to modify your diet so that you’re eating more healthy foods than harmful foods. And if you make just one small change each day or each week and make it part of your regular eating pattern, you’ll lose weight.
2. Eat six meals per day. You may have already heard this before but it’s worth repeating and it’s easier than it sounds. If you’re overweight, chances are you’re skipping regular meals and eating a lot of calories through random snacking throughout the day and lots of liquid calories (soda, mocha choca lattes, chips, chocolates). Instead of foraging all day long on whatever comes near you, try to eat three square meals and three scheduled healthy snacks. For example, eat breakfast before you work and then, midway between your breakfast and lunch, have a planned snack. Nothing fancy but keep it real. An apple with some peanut butter is a great choice or keep a stash of protein bars handy and have one for a snack. When lunch rolls around, you won’t be overly hungry so you’ll be more likely to make a sensible choice for lunch. Have another snack midway between lunch and dinner and you’ll find the same results. After dinner and before bedtime, have one more snack for the day. Make it a small one and keep the carbs low.
3. Stop drinking soda. Period. That’s it. Each 12 oz. can of soda has 7 and 1/2 teaspoons of sugar in it. If you grab any 24 oz bottle or get a medium or larger soda from any fast food restaurant, you’re consuming 15 teaspoons of sugar! Think about ordering your coffee with 15 sugars in it. If you want to see a visual measurement of the sugar in soda, check this out. You won’t believe how much sugar you’re getting.
4. Drink more water. If you stop drinking soda, you’ll be looking for a substitute. Water is the best. Since water contains no calories, it can serve as an appetite suppressant, and helps the body metabolize stored fat. It’s fat -free, cholesterol-free, low in sodium, and has no calories. Also, drinking more water helps to reduce water retention by stimulating your kidneys. Dehydration leads to excess body fat, poor muscle tone & size, decreased digestive efficiency & organ function, increased toxicity, joint & muscle soreness, & water retention. Water works to keep muscles and skin toned. Try to drink 8 glasses of water a day. This is an easy and effective step towards losing weight.
5. Hold the Fries. Have a salad or a vegetable (or a baked potato) instead of those french fries or chips. Even though many fast food chains, restaurants and the makers of snacks (chips, etc.) are voluntarily switching from ‘trans fats’ to better oils like canola oil for frying, avoiding fried foods is best.
6. Eat Breakfast. This is actually a tip included in ‘eat 6 meals a day’ suggestion but for those who want to take smaller steps, this is probably the most important meal. Skipping breakfast means you’ve been starving your body since you went to sleep for 8 hours already, plus however long it is until your next meal. What does your body do when it’s starving? It slows down your metabolism and holds on to fat. On the other hand, eating breakfast consistently signals to your body that there is no need to store fat and your body begins to process your food and fires up your metabolism to start your day.
7. Eat More Protein. Protein is the building block for healthy muscle and roughly a third of your meals should consist of protein. If you eat meals without protein (think coffee and donuts, a bagel with OJ, pancakes with fruit), you’re body begins to pump out insulin to keep your blood sugar levels under control. You’ll get a sugar rush while your body converts the sugar to fat and then you’ll crash. Eating protein with every meal in addition to carbs and healthy fats allows your body to regulate this process.
8. Make better choices. Very few people have time to prepare all of their meals and be ready for healthy snacks and meals all day long. Business travelers, busy moms, working moms, all have too much to do and few hours to do it in. So, we grab food that is available. Having meals prepared or at least a plan is ideal. But when you can’t, make the best choice you can, with what’s offered to you. Substitute a chicken sandwich for a burger. Add a salad or baked potato instead of an order of french fries. Hold the mayo and have mustard. Have the dressing on the side. Order the smaller steak. Choose brown rice instead of white. Order fish. Just one better choice at each meal will make a world of difference.
9. Don’t Eat Past Full. Treat your body more like your car and you’ll eat better. You wouldn’t overfill your gas tank and you wouldn’t put 6 quarts of oil in your car. You measure out what your car is supposed to hold and needs to run properly and that’s what you put in your car. Do the same with your stomach. Prepare a dish of food that is reasonable in size, eat it and stop. You don’t need to be full at every meal. And, if you’re eating 6 meals a day, you won’t want to. A good rule of thumb for determining portion size is the size of a deck of playing cards, the size of your closed fist or the palm of your hand for all solid foods.
10. Resistance Train. If you’ve never worked out at all, talk to your doctor before you begin any exercise plan. But if you’re stuck in a rut with the treadmill, stationary bike and other aerobics, and getting no where, get off the treadmill and start to incorporate resistance training into your workout. A good pattern is aerobics one day and resistance training the next. Weight training or other resistance training (includes pushups, pullups, squats with your own body weight, walking lunges) have one excellent benefit that aerobics does not provide. When you resistance train, you break muscle down during your workout. As a result, you burn calories (and fat), during your workout and all day long, as your body repairs itself with all of the healthy choices you make in your diet all day long. Depending on how hard you train, you can burn calories all through the day and night, from one resistance training workout.
If you are having trouble figuring out how many calories to eat, use our food database and calorie counter (you need to be logged in to track calories) and find or build workouts using our find a workout creator.
Eat Fat, Lose Weight with Flat Belly Diet
Prevention Magazine has a Flat Belly Diet that was released with great fanfare and as if it was a new concept. It’s one worth repeating. Kudos to them for revealing a truth about food that should be self-evident but that we overlook. We need fat. There are good fats. God put all sorts of great foods on the earth that we’ve overlooked because there has been this ‘low-fat’ mentality for so long.
The Flat Belly Diet is based primarily on mono-unsaturated fatty acids (abbreviated MUFAs).
As stated on Prevention’s website: ‘There are five major categories of MUFAs: (1) oils, (2) nuts and seeds, (3) avocado, (4) olives, and (5) chocolate. Eating one serving of any of these foods at every meal will help reduce your accumulation of dangerous belly fat; control your calorie intake and you’ll lose inches and pounds, too–especially around your waistline.
There are two different types of fat: subcutaneous and visceral. Subcutaneous is right under your skin. You can see it and pinch it and you have a little everywhere that you have skin. You may have a lot on your waist or your backside.
Some subcutaneous fat is necessary but too much of it can be bad and is usually a visible sign of being overweight or obese. Subcutaneous fat is the first to go when you follow a diet rich in MUFA’s along with an exercise program and overall healthy diet.
The second type of fat (visceral fat) is much more dangerous and harder to lose. Visceral fat (which gets its name from viscera, which refers to the internal organs in the abdomen) resides deep within the torso, wrapping itself around your heart, liver, and other major organs. In fact, it’s possible to be relatively thin and still have too much visceral fat. That’s why it’s sometimes referred to as ‘hidden’ belly fat.’ Excess visceral fat can subtract years from your life.
Visceral fat has been linked to a long list of adverse health conditions, including:
High blood pressure, stroke, and heart disease
High cholesterol
Diabetes
Breast cancer
Dementia
One of the main reasons visceral fat is so deadly is because of its role in inflammation, a natural immune response that has lately been tied to almost every chronic disease there is. Visceral fat secretes precursors to an inflammatory chemical that helps fuel the systemic process that exacerbates early symptoms of disease.
In fact, according to a study published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, visceral fat may have a greater impact on the cardiovascular health of older women than does overall obesity. Danish researchers found that women with excessive belly fat had a greater risk of atherosclerosis than those whose fat was stored mostly in their hips, thighs, and buttocks. Here’s why:
The proximity of visceral fat to your liver boosts production of LDL cholesterol (the ‘bad’ one), which collects in your arteries and forms plaque, a waxy substance.
Over time, this waxy plaque becomes inflamed, causing swelling that narrows the arteries, restricting the passage of blood.
The narrowing passageways increase blood pressure, straining your heart and potentially damaging tiny capillaries.
The inflammation further increases your risk of blood clots, which can break loose and cause stroke.
But it gets worse. Visceral fat also contributes to insulin resistance, an early precursor to diabetes. Insulin resistance is a condition in which cells do not respond to insulin and the pancreas is forced to increase production in order to clear the bloodstream of glucose. Over time, insulin resistance can lead to full-blown diabetes, which can severely comprise the entire circulatory system and cause long-term issues with vision, memory, and wound healing.
As if that weren’t enough, a Kaiser Permanente study comparing people with different levels of belly fat showed that those who had the most belly fat were 145 percent more likely to develop dementia compared with people with the least amount of belly fat. Why? Inflammation again, suggest investigators.
These science-based studies should be reason enough to motivate you to shed your belly fat forever. But even if you reduce calories and exercise regularly, you can still be left with too much hidden visceral fat. What is the answer? According to Prevention, the answer is eating the right kind of …fat. Studies have shown that MUFAs, are the key to shedding both subcutaneous and the deadly visceral fact. It is these five fats that create the corner stone of the Flat Belly Diet.
Sports Drinks During Exercise
Your body is made up of mostly water, which makes it the ideal fluid for intake during a workout. If you exercise for longer than an hour, or very intensely, you may need to replace the carbohydrates used to fuel exercise and the electrolytes lost in sweat.
Drinking sports drinks (like Gatorade® or Powerade®) that contain carbohydrates and electrolytes is a great way to hydrate during long or intense exercise. If you are working out for less than an hour, water and a well-balanced meal after your workout will replace the fluid and energy that your body used while exercising. Sports drinks such as Gatorade G2®, Propel®, Vitamin Water 10®, and Powerade Zero® provide electrolytes, but they are either low in carbohydrates or have no carbohydrates in them, so they can be a good option to drink during shorter workouts.

