(playful music) – Are you often wondering what should I be drinking
when I'm playing golf? When you're playing golf, are you often drinking water or soda or one of the Ades out there and you're still feeling kind of thirsty or still dry of mouth. If any of those things
apply to you, stay tuned because we're gonna talk about the things that you might
be drinking right now and whether or not they're
really the right things for you to be drinking. So stay tuned. (playful music) Thanks so much for tuning in today. So in an earlier video, I talked about hydration and how it's so easy for the human body to become dehydrated at any point but in particular, during a round of golf.
Moreover, we talked
about the ramifications of playing golf while dehydrated. We can lose our motor skills, those fine motor skills
as chipping and pudding, we can lose the ability to think sharply and therefore to manage our play and good course management. Those crazy shots, the, "Oh my gosh, why did I do that?" As soon as I hit it. A lot of those come from the fact that we're a little dehydrated and our body's missing
exactly what we need. Now, specifically when we
talk about dehydration, what we need to understand is that we've lost a lot of fluids, right? And we lose that routinely through respiration,
perspiration, and urination. But obviously when
we're out on the course, we may be perspiring. Of course, we're gonna make a
stop for the comfort station or those types of things, but we're losing those fluids and we're not replacing them at the rates that we should. Now, for some of us, we may even be replacing
with plenty of water, but we're losing more than water. Electrolytes are the
minerals that help our body and those fluids work together to kind of create that electrical charge that helps our brain and our body do what it needs to do to help us motor along and do great things.
So even if you're drinking water, it's just not enough. But sometimes the things
that we're drinking are adding a bunch of other things that we really could do without. A lot of the popular drinks out there, I won't call any brand names but they may not be serving you as well as you might think. So we're gonna talk about some of those things in just a moment. If you're gaining value from this video, would you be so kind as to press Like and subscribe and even ring
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video from our channel, Thank you. (playful music) So, because there's so much information and there's so many
products out on the market, I wanted to try to make just a simple table to give you an idea.
Now, let me be clear. I am, I own no shares and have no affiliate relationships with any these brands at this time. So some of the brands
that you'll see here, they're just there, okay, for example Coke, when I represents here, it's a general guideline for most sodas. So there are a couple things here that I want you to really focus on. There are a lot of data here. Of course, I'm in a
lot of nutritional data that I could include it. But the important ones here are sugar, the number of
calories and the sodium that we take in with each
serving of these things. Now, we have what we may call a serving. And of course, lot of times
we're out on the golf course, a serving might be the bottle you pick up, the turn or from the beverage cart or that you may have brought with you.
But it's so important to understand that that may not always be the case from the manufacturer's perspective. And we're gonna talk about
that in just a minute. So as you can see here, a Coke or soda will
give you a lot of sugar, 39 grams of sugar, 140 calories, that probably won't kill us, not the worst and 45 grams of sodium. Now, when we are trying
to replenish ourselves and get healthy and hydrated
while we're playing golf or doing anything else, I gotta say that our
primary focus should be the re hydration in this sodium, which will help us with the electrolytes and that type of thing. That's a good bit of sugar. So we really wanna take that into account and again, 140 calories, most of us could do without. Now, if we look at the
Powerades and the Gatorades in my opinion, this is where it gets really interesting. If you see that both of them
give us a good bit of sugar, 52 and a half and 48.
So if you average that out, that on average with the Ades there it's gonna be about 50 grams
of sugar in that bottle, the same with calories, about 200 calories, and then about 375, 380
milligrams of sodium, which again is what
we're really aiming for. Now, here is where it gets interesting. If you notice here, in
the servings per bottle for the Gatorade and the
Powerade here, it's 2.5 and I have that in red.
Why do I have that in red? Because this is saying that these are the statistics
for those ingredients or for those nutrients if you will. If you view that bottle as having two and a half servings. So that one bottle that you're drinking, they're counting it as
two and a half servings. So really, you didn't get 52 and a half grams of sugar. You got two and a half times that, that's a lot. So think about that if
you're on the course and you guzzle down one or two of those, or even the bigger one, it's a lot of sugar, it's a lot of calories and the sodium is good, which again is what we need but it doesn't offset all the negativity that is bringing into your body.
Now, Body Armor, it's a newer but similar
to the Ades on the market. They're doing a little bit better job, if you look 21 in sugar 90 in calories and only 30 in sodium though. The whole point of this again, is to get re hydrated and restock with those electrolytes, which come through sodium. So I don't know about that. Coconut water, all natural. That's a good option. 14 grams of sugar, 66 calories and 55 grams of sodium. We're on the right track. Now, these products below are what we call newer kinds of products that solely focus on helping
us to get re hydrated. Ultima comes into part of format, as you notice no sugar, no calories, 55 grams of sodium. Comes in a packet.
It's very interesting. I've tried it out. I like it. And we'll talk about that
more in the future video. Nuun, it's a great one. It comes in a tablet form, kind of a tube. That's about the size
of a big lifesaver tube. If you will, if you guys
remember those lifesavers. Comes in very low, very little sugar, it's a fizzy tablet, effervescent tablet, kind of like an Alco-Sensor. You plop it into your bottle of water or whatever the case may be. And fizz fizz comes in
a variety of flavors that don't bring you a lot of calories, only 10 calories, but it
brings us to that sodium that we desperately
need to replace at 360. So that's a winner. Now we have a new one on the block here. It's kind of a late addition to my study here actually, Liquid IV increasingly becoming one of my favorites, cause I wanna talk about it.
I think it will be really helpful for a lot of us golfers. Adds only 11 grams of sugar 50 calories, but a whopping 500 milligrams of sodium which is awesome because that's really where we're focused. We need to replace, replenish, and it comes in as a winner. And of course nature's water comes in clean across the board, but it does quench our thirst sometimes. (playful music) So in terms of our
beverages and our choices, no doubt about it. There's a time and a
place where everything, but when we're talking about our hydration and our golf performance we wanna be very mindful of not only the water replacement but the replenishment
of those electrolytes which we do through intake of good sodium. As discussed with the
data on our board here, some of the drinks that we commonly grasp and are readily available to us as golfers out on the course, they may not be the best for us. And so I want us to help us to be wise in our decision making and information helps us to do that. So the next time that
you're out there thinking about what should I drink? I know you're out there and you've been drinking and you're still feeling really thirsty.
Understand that something that comes from a bottle already with flavors and additives, might not be your best shot. I encourage you to give a consideration to some of those products that particularly label themselves as liquid re hydration, Ultima, Nuun, Liquid IV, some of those others, they are great brands to
give consideration to. So if you'd want more information about these types of things, these types of products, please check out our next video, where we focusing on some specific products that
work exceptionally well to help golf performance
and hydration maintenance.
See you in the next video. (playful music).