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hey what's going on my name is sky founder of schuyfit and we work with men to help them
lose fat build muscle and stay lean and healthy by hacking their biology i've been studying
health for over 10 years now and i've also helped plenty of clients break through their plateaus
to burn fat and to continue to get in the best shape of their life so if you're watching this
video my guess is you are interested in what the best sports hydration drink is for athletes now
i've done a few videos one talking about logan paul's drink and why it's not as healthy as most
people think another talking about the problem that i have with most modern day sports drinks
and so in this video i really wanted to break down you know if i shouldn't have gatorade if i
shouldn't have powerade if i shouldn't have these drinks what should i have now of course i'm gonna
go first with the most obvious answer which is it depends depending on your energy exertion
depending on the level of shape that you're in depending on how long you're working at what
type of workout you're doing there's going to be a whole slew of different things that you could
consume to optimize your performance but in this video i'm kind of going to break down just a few
to give you a little more awareness now on one end you have the high intensity side of things
and with this side of things your body wants sugar if you're going for an extremely long
bike ride if you're doing a marathon your body's going to want to consume some form of sugar and
so most people tend to go with those energy chews but there are going to be some drinks out there
that are actually pretty nutritious for you that have high levels of sugar and so in that case if
you're looking at something like a gatorade zero or a power rate zero or any of the companies that
have zero grams of sugar you're setting yourself up for failure because you're consuming artificial
sweeteners but your body's not consuming the sugar that it can use to exercise more intensely and so
a good blanket statement that i like to live by is just avoid things with artificial sweeteners you
know the sucralose the aci-sulfame potassium i'm okay with things like stevia and monk fruit and
xylitol because they're more natural sweeteners and they haven't been shown to impact the body as
negatively but along with everything else it's all about moderation and one more thing before we dive
into it so i am choosing these options off of my preference now i am not a high intensity athlete
i eventually will be doing a marathon but i don't recommend doing normal high intense
long-term training for the average individual i just think it has the potential to do more harm
than good and so this video is really going to come from that perspective you know i'm a fan of
challenging yourself i'm a fan of running biking all this high intensity stuff but there comes a
point where you got to understand that if you're not properly fueling and if you don't have your
nutrition dialed in there's a high level that you're doing more harm for your body than good
and so with this i'm gonna go into four different categories of the best so number one is going to
be the natural option number two is going to be the most mainstream option number three is going
to be a little less than mainstream but something you can probably find in a lot of stores and then
number four is going to be a powder option so let's get into it number one i like to keep things
very simple when we go with the natural route right i like to keep things to the point where
it's simple to find it's easy to use and it's very very nutritious and so the first thing is going to
be something like himalayan sea salt himalayan sea salt has over 30 essential nutrients in it it has
all the electrolytes you need including things like potassium magnesium sodium all the things
that are going to propel you prevent you from cramping and refill those necessary electrolytes
and minerals now the downside of this is of course it doesn't taste too good to put a lot of salt in
your water you know if you're super super thirsty it may be a good idea because it's also going to
help you retain more but if you're doing something intense and you want to actually enjoy what you
drink it's probably not the best option and so my second option for that is going to be
coconut water now when you look for coconut water you're going for the ones without any added sugar
right so a lot of coconut drinks will put added sweeteners added sugar all this unnecessary stuff
and so if you really find the good stuff a lot of the coconut water is going to be pink
that's actually how it comes out before it's pasteurized but if you are going to look for the
ones that are pasteurized you just want to make sure that they're coming from a clean source and
they don't have added ingredients and so it's kind of the same thing here but what's really
cool about coconut water is there's natural sugar in it so whereas the salt you're not getting any
added sugar for your body to use the coconut water has real coconut sugar in it you're also getting
those minerals right potassium the sodium all the other stuff that your body's gonna want so that's
my natural option before we dive any deeper just let me know in the comments what is your go-to
sports drink i'm curious what you're currently drinking right now number two is going to be
mainstream now mainstream we have a lot of options that are not good right we have the vitamin waters
the gatorades the power rates the propel which a lot of them are just sugar water a lot of them
have artificial dyes a lot of them have artificial sweeteners a bunch of these unnecessary additives
and so when i'm looking at mainstream what i'm looking for is less of the artificial stuff more
of the real stuff and just moderating that level of sugar and so the first one here is going to
be more mainstream right it's the one that you're probably going to find in most stores and that's
going to be the body armor or the body armor light now the body armor is going to have sugar the body
armor light is not going to have sugar it's going to have natural zero calorie sweeteners
so the monk fruit the stevia the ones i mentioned before that are decent in moderation now i'm iffy
with the body armor if we come down to it we've got cane sugar which 28 grams is a lot 26 being
from the cane sugar coconut water concentrate which i talked about in the logan paul video
i'm not a fan of concentrate because it removes a lot of the essential nutrients
and then it looks like you have a lot of stuff added a lot of electrolytes and vitamins added
so to me this isn't terrible right i'm not gonna not have this if this is my option to go
out when i'm being super active and i want some electrolytes this is gonna be a good option for
me and we've got the body armor light so there is two grams of sugar here but it's totally natural
it's not added and the sweeteners are coming from erythritol and stevia and same thing you're
getting that coconut water concentrate not a huge fan of but you're getting a lot of added
ingredients as far as vitamins and minerals as well so the next one is the less mainstream one
which is seems to be available in some stores but it's not something you'll commonly find out
but i wanted to provide this option because this one is actually a lot cleaner than the body armor
and that is pneuma organic electrolyte drink now i had to look at this one up because i haven't
seen it in stores but apparently it is around some stores in the usa um and when we look at the label
it's a not gmo product it's an organic product which i'm a huge fan of both there's no added
sugar which is cool if we look at it we got five grams of sugar totally natural and the ingredients
are going to be filtered water organic coconut water for concentrate again concentrate not really
happy about but you've got organic chocolate spearmint flavor for this flavor and i'm assuming
there's other organic flavoring for the others you get pink himalayan salt which is what i was
referencing earlier so you're getting all those nutrients in there and then some organic stevia
to sweeten it so again it's not the best option if you're just going for performance you're probably
better off with just some himalayan salt but if you're looking for something that's a little more
flavor this is going to be a good option as well and then the last one worth mentioning is the
powder now there's a lot of different powders out there that i've been looking through and there's
been one that's really stood out to me the most and it is element lmnt element is a great source
of electrolytes and their plain one is just going to be a flavorless powder that's going to dissolve
and give you all those essential nutrients now they do have flavored versions and those versions
will have a few extra ingredients but it seems all natural to me it seems like a decent alternative
and so if you are looking for something with zero sugar that would be a great option if you are
looking for added sugar right you're a little more active and you want some stuff for your body to
burn off liquid iv is going to be a great option so they're pretty clean ingredients but they have
that sugar added for more of the glucose in the body to be used so again natural is going to be
coconut water or himalayan sea salt mainstream is going to be either pneuma organic electrolyte
or the more popular one body armor or body armor light and then the powder is either going to be
something like lmnt or liquid iv that's my take on things you know obviously depending on what your
lifestyle is things could be a little different but if you're going clean just go as natural
as possible right it's okay to treat yourself with some of these drinks every once in a while
but if you're a high performer or you're really focused on burning fat getting an incredible shape
you probably want to avoid most of those for most of the time and with that being said if
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