As a beer-drinker of some long-standing, I know incurable addicts like me, tend to grasp-hold of any small anecdote or tit-bit of information, to help justify the continued over-consumption of our favourite tipple.
On a very rare occasion (frequency of Hayley’s Comet) science & the medical profession comes to our rescue, so when I read recently, that Spanish research has established beer was better than water as a post-exercise fluid – I used what brain cells alcohol hadn’t destroyed, to make mental notes on this ground-breaking discovery (let’s face it, even your drinking buddies at the pub, are not going to believe this one)
The following are these mental notes, and what you need to regurgitate the moment the opportunity to produce such ‘a gem’ dictates.
- A study done by Granada University in Spain has discovered that beer is better for post-workout hydration than plain water.
- The students who were tested, ran on a treadmill in very hot temperatures. After the exercise half the group were given a pint of beer, while the others received the same volume of water.
- The results were: beer had a superior hydrating affect than water.
- The professor who undertook the study believes the carbon dioxide in beer, helps quench the thirst more quickly & it’s carbohydrate content replaces calories lots in exercise as well.
Momentous breakthroughs like this surely have to go close to a Noble Prize of some kind, but need more study, and you and I can assist here by putting our livers on the line.
Purely in the interests of sports science, I’ve decided to put this one to the acid test, and I’m calling for others in the mountain-bike fraternity to consider joining me conducting a worldwide study.
On a very rare occasion (frequency of Hayley’s Comet) science & the medical profession comes to our rescue, so when I read recently, that Spanish research has established beer was better than water as a post-exercise fluid – I used what brain cells alcohol hadn’t destroyed, to make mental notes on this ground-breaking discovery (let’s face it, even your drinking buddies at the pub, are not going to believe this one)
The following are these mental notes, and what you need to regurgitate the moment the opportunity to produce such ‘a gem’ dictates.
- A study done by Granada University in Spain has discovered that beer is better for post-workout hydration than plain water.
- The students who were tested, ran on a treadmill in very hot temperatures. After the exercise half the group were given a pint of beer, while the others received the same volume of water.
- The results were: beer had a superior hydrating affect than water.
- The professor who undertook the study believes the carbon dioxide in beer, helps quench the thirst more quickly & it’s carbohydrate content replaces calories lots in exercise as well.
Momentous breakthroughs like this surely have to go close to a Noble Prize of some kind, but need more study, and you and I can assist here by putting our livers on the line.
Purely in the interests of sports science, I’ve decided to put this one to the acid test, and I’m calling for others in the mountain-bike fraternity to consider joining me conducting a worldwide study.
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