Comments on: Run rabbit

By: Fiona

Fiona — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:46:32 +0000

@Jen: Yes jen, we’re going all vampiric on you. You’d bette watch out!

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:46:25 +0000

protein!?!? how ridiculous. Is it meat flavoured?

OMG!! It’s BLOOD isn’t it!!!

Gross.

By: kelkel

kelkel — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:34:09 +0000

It’s unfortunate that people trust the front of food labels, but adding to that is the way buzz-words get in people’s heads and then they associate those words with good nutrition. “Protein!” is one of these buzz words. It works for the boys, because they think they will grow muscle and the girls associate it with lower energy content.
It dissapoints me that just because they’ve decided to stop taking medals off people for it, drink companies immediately advertise it almost as an essential excersise vitamin of some form.

By: Rish

Rish — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:32:42 +0000

Yeah. So they gave us a whole bunch of psuedo-scientific “stuff” with the drinks, basically saying the drinks effectiveness was supported by research. In the stuff referring to the Energy Edge drink, it mentioned about caffeine now being legal in certain sporting comps. Can’t remember the specifics though.

By: kelkel

kelkel — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:31:11 +0000

Body builders use creatine for the same reason, hypes you up, gives you more energy supposedly. Creatine however I think is actually legal for all sports, but don’t quote me on that.
As to the affect on body conditioning, sure, more work done is still more work done, but given the nature of caffeine, the more often you have it the less effective it becomes and you become dependant on it to reach your normal levels of performance.
Sports drinks are really only useful to athletes. Regular persons doing regular amounts of excersise don’t run out of electrolytes in our systems (we actually all consume far too much salt as it is). So unless you’re doing a triathalon, you’ll get little benefit out of sports drinks. And as you pointed out yourself, you’re trying to burn energy, not consume it.
Rishni hit the nail on the head with the protein comment. The reality is, companies bring out products that they know average, uninformed people will love. So all the dookins see “With Protein! Makes bigger muscles!” and they buy a truckload. Always read your labels.
But personally, I love the blue one for taste. :p

By: Fiona

Fiona — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:44:43 +0000

hmm I remembr people gettingh kicked out of Olympic shooting events and archery for having too much caffeine in their system.

By: Shelley

Shelley — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:02:32 +0000

Didn’t some international sporting body recently partially remove the ban on caffeine? I figured that was why powerade decided to shove some in their sports drink, given it’s addictive and all.

By: Rish

Rish — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:49:40 +0000

Nah..that’s pretty much it. The caffeine one was quite a lot of fun. I wonder what effect is has on body conditioning though. As in, if you’re exercising to get fit, does it have any benefit? Perhaps it’s just good on “game day”.

I might also add that the protein one seems pretty pointless, owing to the very small amount of protein in each bottle. A glass of low fat milk has about 10% more protein, so why not have an extra one of those, or just get serious and have a protein shake.