H. Star

I can't believe this is a discussion. The light blue colored Powerade is the best. Gatorade (invented by the Florida Gators) sucks big green eggs!

doonster

Use both, depending. Always 500ml in a 750ml bottle, topped off with water as I, too, find them a bit too sweet. Gatorade has less calories so I tend to use it for shorter rides (2-4h). Powerade seems to have a little less sodium (haven't checked the label recently) - sometimes GA can taste a little salty.

For recovery I use Aquarius, also by Coca Cola, it's less sweet with a more neutral flavour and a lot less colour. Haven't seen this outside mainland Europe, however.

In UK I use Lucozade Sport, diluted as above - very similar to Gatorade. this was the stuff that first got me into using sports drinks: seemed to be like rocket fuel when I was out hillwalking.

hitek420

Drinking/eating sugary stuff doesn't make you a diabetic...

Middi-zon

I use the Gatorade Ice flavors (the clear ones). I turned to these because on days I had hockey or lacrosse games in high school I always would drink a ton of sports drinks, my Junior year the school put in a new rule about only having water in the classroom, so I put the clear Gatorade in a Desani (sp?) bottle. I drink powerade when I'm not doing anything athletic, but if I have the choice it's Gatorade for me.

-Middi-zon

Justen

It's all a matter of personal opinion. Obviously there are alot of people here with different taste preferences. If you like the blue Powerade, drink it. If you don't like Gatorade, don't drink it.
Simple, right ?!

H. Star

No you don't get it. The green crap comes from the FL Gators so I wouldn't touch it with a 10' pole.

khuon

So are you saying you're adverse to drinking Gatorade purely on the grounds of school loyalty or animosity? :confused:

Justen

Duh ! Yeah..I got it now. I guess that'll teach me not to answer my e-mail at 2 in the morning, eh ?

Justen