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Sports drill] college press EXCHANGE With college students around the nation starting to get back into the grind of classes, students will once again be cramming the fitness centers and picking up their workout habits. But with this summer being especially hot. tak ing care of yourself is just as important as keeping in shape. For Kim Streit, an Orlando marathoner, water is passe on long training runs. She likes sports drinks. "As soon as I drink Gatorade, I feel an instant boost," Streit said. "I usually drink it at about 8,14 and then again at 17 miles, depending on how hot it is. It gives you more energy than water. And I think it helps you recover better afterward." For Streit, 38, and other athletes who exercise vigorously for more than an hour at a time, sports drinks really do work better than water at replenishing the body's fluids and preventing dehydration, say dietitians and exercise physiologists. But, said Orlando dietitian Karen Beerbower, "unless the physical activities last longer than 60 minutes, water works just as well." Because only a tiny percentage of people vigorously exercise for more than an hour at a time, the potential market for sports drinks should seemingly be equally as tiny. But, say Beerbower and other experts, anybody who spends time in the heat ? playnig sports, mowing the lawn, reshingling a roof, paving a road ? is at risk of dehydration and can benefit from sports drinks. The benefits are particularly important for those spending time outdoors during a heat wave, although just about any summer day is hot enough to make dehydration a risk. "Studies have shown that people won't drink as much water as they do sports drinks," Beerbower said. "If kids and adults will use sports drinks more frequently and in more volume than water because of its taste, it will prevent dehydration." Liz Applegate, nutrition editor for Runner's World, agreed. "Especially in the summer, it's important to pay attention to fluid intake. To many, water is not that thrilling, and sports drinks are much better for you than soda or beer." "I always recommend sports drinks," said Applegate, a nutrition professor at the University of California-Davis. "It motivates people to stay out longer. DISCOUNT aEVERAfte. '%'<* <Z HnaxUtuuir 50-cent } - Discount Beer , ?Prices or Soda R|Available every b"riij6pm'8pm Wednesday! ASharicy's at 5 Point* August 26th, Bombers vs. Greensboro Bats, Gametime 7:05pm PRO WRESTLING FOLLOWS THE GAME !!! ks help repk I hear things like: "It kicked in, and I got the hedges trimmed when I was only going to do the lawn.'" ( Gatorade, invented in the mid-1960s at the Uni- , versity of Florida, is the best-known and biggest-selling sports drink, with about 80 percent of the $1.8 billion sports drink market. But Gatorade has ( plenty of competitors. Coca-Cola's Powerade and Pepsi-Cola's All-Sport are major players at supermar- ( kets and convenience stores, while smaller brands \ such as Cytomax, Glycoade and XLR8 are sold in sports and health food stores. As far as Applegate and Beerbower are concerned, they all work well. "I always tell people, find one that ^ tastes good and use it," Applegate said. 1 The two other main factors in choosing a sports 1 drink should be price and availability. "I wouldn't ^ pay more for one than the other," Beerbower said. In other words, don't be dazzled by ingredient lists or inflated claims. All sports drinks do two things: ' They rehydrate you with water and replace some of * the carbohydrates, or sugars, you burn through phys- i ical activity. Sports drinks include electrolytes, particularly j sodium and potassium. The idea is, the body sweats out these mineral salts, and they must be replaced. But their more important function in sports drinks is to stimulate thirst and help the body absorb wa- ( ter. i Three popular beverage ingredients?caffeine, alcohol and carbonation ? impede proper hydration, j Caffeine and alcohol are diuretics, which increase ] urine production and thus speed dehydration, while carbonation bloats the stomach. That means old favorites like ?pft drinks, iced tea and beer don't work well, no matter how good they might taste. Formulating a sports drink requires a balancing , act, because large amounts of carbohydrates slow the 1 absorption of water into the bloodstream. An effec- i tive sports drink must contain enough carbohydrates to replenish lost sugars but not so much as to slow ( hydration. The magic number is "a solution containing 4 to 8 percent carbohydrates," according to i a position paper on sports drinks by the American ] College of Sports Medicine. So if the "Total Carbohydrate" percentage on the nutrition label falls outside the 4-8 percent range, it's not a sports drink. That works out to between 14 1 and 20 grams of carbohydrates per 8 ounces of fluid. Rock 93.5 Suner Concert Series i Final Night: Thursday, August 27tl FEATURING "Tur TiMDCMnCDC1 II 1 11m I IIIUIMI 1 WIMIV^ Following Bombers Baseball, gametime 7:05pm iJOMBEHjj If BASEBALL kj W CAPITAL CITY STADIUM Call 254-HITS '' K'\ :nish fluids Penny pinchers easily can make their own spoil Irink. Just mix a pinch of salt, a dash of lemon jui< md a tablespoon of sugar for each 8 ounces of wate :hill overnight, and you'll have a homemade spor Irink that's both effective and cheap. It probably won't taste as good as the comme: dally available ones, however. And if you don't lil ;he taste, you won't drink enough to get the job don The job is harder than even your body would lea fou to believe. "If you only rely on thirst to tell yc vhen to drink, you may seriously underestimate yoi reed for water. The thirst response arises when yoi Dody has already lost a lot of fluid," wrote Appl *ate in her Runner's World column. Although the taste of sports drinks can eneou ige more liquid intake, their cost can discourage the purchase. When bought in bottles, they typical -ange from about 4 to 8 cents per ounce. Those ounci ? and pennies ? add up quickly when you're quencl ing an exercise-induced thirst. "There is a cost factor with sports drinks," Bee Dower said. "The cheapest way is to buy them in po\ if ed or concentrated form. There is no differen in benefits, as long as they're mixed correctly." The price of both Gatorade and Powerade dro] from about 4 cents per ounce to about 1 cent per oun if thev're nurchased in canisters of Dowder rath< than bottles of liquid. Even if cost is no factor at all, sports drinks woe work for everybody. "Not everyone can tolerate then \pplegate said. "Some people have intestin; tracts of stainless steel. Others do better drinkii water and chomping on a gum drop" to get the carbohydrate replenishment. Beerbower put in a special plug for kids in org nized sports, who often will play several games in row outside on hot summer days. "It may be fine to use water with adults, but get a group of 10-year-old soccer players to drii enough water is tough. Theyll drink Kool-Aid, b it has too much sugar. So do juices and soft drink Sports drinks can really help." _ 1 f /4 JL ?s I Jfc*: O CJJ Jv/ ? * c= V4 ? -< iESSGH Private IS Th< Beside I Open 7 IS PREREC Drive. Intensity words you're like course requirem* Army ROTC is u merit. ROTC wil mpntallv a n rt I through intense training. Trainir Big Ten plus college press EXCHANGE ts With the Big Ten Conference in; ;e serious expansion mode, commissione r> Jim Delany said Thursday that h (.g hoped to know "within months whether Notre Dame will become th 12th member of college football's old est and most storied league. :e Without divulging details, Delan; e. reiterated during a media briefin id that both the conference and the Fighl (U ing Irish have had "a thorough ex jj. change of information" that could lea to the end of Notre Dame's standin IT as an independent in football and member of the Big East in basketba' and other sports, r- "My hope is that, this fall or wir ir ter, something will come of it or somt I v thing will not," Delany said. "At pre ag sent, no invitation Has been extende and no invitation has been asked foi We're seeing where we are on a ve riety of issues. 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According to a report in Wednesday's Chicago Tribune, Notre Dame ^ Athletic Director Michael Wads worth told Big East colleagues last month | the Irish were seriously exploring the q possibility of joining the Big Ten. Gene Corrigan, a former Notre Dame athletic director, was quoted in the same report as saying: "If they ^ don't do something this time, they're j going to stop talking about it. That's r why they're taking such a hard look t. at it. It's something they'd be wise to s look at." ,r Delany offered another indication of how serious the discussions are !_ when he said no other university had tt been approached about joining the :e conference. Syracuse had been coni. sidered a possibility, but university 1- president Kenneth Shaw said he and i- the Big Ten had not been in contact. ^ IRISH pagelfi eld, not on opinions ving for the potentially game-winning field goal, but threw an interception with less than a minute left to give the Buckeyes the title. So there you have it. 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