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How to Make Your Own Isotonic Sports Drink

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How to make your own sports drink guide

You can’t mention isotonic sports drinks without somebody telling you that you don’t really need them. It’s true, and we’ve covered it in our guide to what to drink for sports: most people don’t need to be drinking sports drinks if they’re doing exercise for 60 minutes or less. But the fact is that we […]

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Perfect Refuelling: What to Eat After a Game

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A good game of 5-a-side, or any other sport, will put your body through its paces, depleting your body’s energy stores and leaving your muscles in need of repair. In order to aid your recovery and get your body back on track, you need to consider when and how you refuel it after a game. If […]

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Essential Pre-Match Meals – Top 10

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11 Awesome pre-game meals

We’ve already shown you what you’re looking for with your pre-game eating. This post is going to show you some practical ideas of how you can get the nutrition you need to perform at your best, quickly, conveniently and affordably. You’re in the right place to find your perfect pre-match meal. The essentials You may […]

Filed Under: Nutrition Tagged With: Food, Hydration, Nutrition, Pre-match, Sports drinks

iPro Sport – Shaking Up Sports Drinks

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The market for sports drinks is well established, with some massive players already sitting comfortably at the table and tucking into a large slice of the big-money pie, but here in the UK there are the earliest tremors of something new breaking through. After writing our comprehensive guide on what you should be drinking for […]

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Sports Drinks For Football – What Should You be Drinking?

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Lucozade Sport Orange Bottle

It’s everywhere, the big money professional players are always necking a bottle of the latest sports drink. No wonder they drink endless bottles of the stuff – it’s provided to them free of charge by the sponsors, but for a regular amateur footballer, are there any benefits to buying these drinks? Lucozade sponsor the FA […]

Filed Under: Nutrition Tagged With: Drinks, Hydration, Nutrition, Sports drinks

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