Hey guys, how many of you see people at the gym drinking those colourful drinks during their workouts? A few? 75% of the time it’s a BCAA drink of some sort. So why do people use this stuff? Large companies who manufacture BCAA’s, market their benefits as an energy booster during workouts. Research has proven BCAA’s do in fact contribute to energy metabolism during a workout. These amino acids are broken down in to substrates and pool as citric acid-cycle (energy pathway) intermediates for gluconeogenesis (production of glucose). Energy production from BCAA’s only occur when used during a catabolic state (exercise or starvation). For recovery, BCAA’s contribute to protein synthesis. So it works, if you are looking for a little bit of energy in your workout! But is there a cheaper or effective alternative? An alternative beverage that we recommend that promotes energy during exercise would be a sucrose-based drink. Sucrose is broken down into fructose and glucose which are rapidly digested and absorbed into the blood for that extra kick in energy and does not require as many conversion pathways as BCAA’s would. An example would be Powerade or Gatorade Isotonic beverages. We hope you have enjoyed this post 🙂
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