When you perform strenuous exercise (sports food), you may sometimes feel soreness in your waist, legs or whole body muscles, exhausted, and sometimes you may also feel unbearably hungry and thirsty. At this time, will a glass of iced Coke become your favorite?
Perhaps, before choosing to drink, you should know whether we can drink Coke during exercise?
Generally, cola contains caffeine, carbon dioxide and phosphoric acid. Because taking or drinking large amounts of caffeine-containing drugs or drinks can help athletes stay in a highly excited state, thereby improving sports performance. Therefore, just this year, the World Anti-Doping Organization revealed that any drugs or drinks containing caffeine will be banned, including cola.
However, the caffeine content in cola is lower. For ordinary people, as long as they do not drink large amounts, their neurological "exciting" or "inhibiting" effects are not particularly obvious.
However, in addition to caffeine, Coke also contains carbon dioxide and phosphoric acid. It is these two ingredients that determine that Coke cannot be recommended as a sports drink.
A sufficient amount of carbon dioxide in the drink can play a sterilizing and antibacterial role, and can also take away body heat through evaporation and play a cooling role, so you will feel "so refreshing" when drinking it. But while the carbon dioxide in Coke allows us to enjoy the coolness and stimulating taste, it also brings some stimulation to our digestive (food digestion) system. Especially drinking it before exercise may cause flatulence, which may lead to abdominal pain during exercise and other problems.
After a certain amount of exercise, everyone will feel more or less tired and sore. This is because our bodies produce acidic substances during exercise, and the accumulation of acidic substances can cause physical fatigue. At this time, if you supplement your body with cola containing phosphoric acid, it will increase the body's fatigue, prevent the body's pH from being neutralized, and make it difficult to recover from fatigue.
Expert advice is: Don’t drink cola for at least half an hour before and after exercise. Since the human body loses a lot of electrolytes during exercise, drinking an alkaline drink containing electrolytes after exercise is the right choice