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The researchers got 15 men aged between 18 and 25, all of whom did fitness regularly, to follow a 12-week training regime. The subjects went to the gym three times a week and trained their main muscle groups, doing bench-press, seated rows, shoulder-press, lat pull-downs, triceps extensions, biceps curls, leg-press, leg extensions and leg curls.
The men did 3 sets of each exercise, using a weight at which they were just able to complete 10 reps. [75 percent of the 1RM] the subjects rested for 1 minute between reps, and for 2 minutes between the different exercises.
Half of the men drank water during the training sessions. The other half were given a sports drink containing 6 percent sugars. The drink that was used was Gatorade, and the men drank 8.5 ml per kg bodyweight during the workout. The subjects also took a slug between exercises. For someone weighing 90 kg, it amounted to drinking 750 ml, 46 g sugars or 184 kcal.
In an earlier experiment the researchers had got the men to train at four o’clock in the afternoon, four hours after their last meal. The cortisol level in the men who drank only water rose by almost 100 percent. In the men who drank Gatorade the rise was only 6 percent.
The men did 3 sets of each exercise, using a weight at which they were just able to complete 10 reps. [75 percent of the 1RM] the subjects rested for 1 minute between reps, and for 2 minutes between the different exercises.
Half of the men drank water during the training sessions. The other half were given a sports drink containing 6 percent sugars. The drink that was used was Gatorade, and the men drank 8.5 ml per kg bodyweight during the workout. The subjects also took a slug between exercises. For someone weighing 90 kg, it amounted to drinking 750 ml, 46 g sugars or 184 kcal.
In an earlier experiment the researchers had got the men to train at four o’clock in the afternoon, four hours after their last meal. The cortisol level in the men who drank only water rose by almost 100 percent. In the men who drank Gatorade the rise was only 6 percent.
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