Powerade for PWO?

[clockworks]

I know you're suppose to get a lot of carbs PWO, and most people like to use dextrose, but would a simple sugar drink like Powerade be OK? Unfortunately, the 1st ingredient is high fructose corn syrup, but hey, the 2nd ingredient is maltodextrin!

The reason I ask is because my PWO protein shake only has 20g of complex carbs and 1g of simple carbs. I wanted to suppliment it with a mini Powerade that has 25g of sugar.

Thanks for the help.

[SwoleCat]

No, that and gatorade are actually pretty crappy. They also have ingredients that F with stomach acid concentrations, but I'd have to dig to find that reference.

Just get some dextrose. Use sweet-tarts until then.

~SC~

[ColdSore]

honey would probably work too...but like swole said...dex would be optimal and its cheap so why not?

[Boost n Juice]

There's more surcose (bad) then dextrose (good) in that 25g of sugar...

Like Swolecat said, buy some dextrose, you can get it from www.barryfarms.com $4 = 5lbs of dextrose + shipping and have some sweettarts or smarties until your dex arrives...

[clockworks]

Cool, thanks for the advice. My PWO shake is premade so wouldn't adding dextrose to it make it disgustingly sweet? If so, what are some other things I can add dextrose to that wouldn't taste too bad?

[ColdSore]

it does make it sweet depending on how much protein you use...but you could always drown the dex with some creatine and water seperate first, then drink the shake plain