Red Bull
Elushion
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Does RedBull before a race actually do any help? Was at a crit the other night where there was a stall, handing out redbull. The lady who was giving them out stated "It will help your performance". However, I fully beleive this was a load of marketing tosh. Or is it?
"It was eleven more than necessary."
-Jacques Anquetil (after winning a race by twelve
seconds."
-Jacques Anquetil (after winning a race by twelve
seconds."
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Only one way to find out!!0
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Elushion wrote:Does RedBull before a race actually do any help? Was at a crit the other night where there was a stall, handing out redbull. The lady who was giving them out stated "It will help your performance". However, I fully beleive this was a load of marketing tosh. Or is it?
Depends how much you are affected by caffine I'd guess, if you're going for the caffine version.0 -
Caffeine is a proven egogenic aid. Plenty of evidence out there on this - just use t'internet.
One can provides 80mg, which isn't actually a huge amount (about the same as one and a half cups of tea).
There's also a few other 'active' ingredients which I don't think are as well supported by the research. One is taurine, which is often referred to as a non-essential amino acid, although according to wikipedia it isn't, as it lacks a carboxyl group. I'm crap at chemistry so I won't split hairs on that, the other ingredient last time I looked was glucuronolactone, which is is a naturally occurring chemical produced by metabolism of glucose in the liver.
It also contains B vitamins and about 27 grams of sugar.
Basically, any noticable effect will come from the sugar and caffeine, which you are better off getting from espresso and cake IMO - unless you want a proper caffeine hit in which case just buy some pure caffeine powder, which is available from supplement websites, and works out a hell of a lot cheaper than overpriced slightly caffeinated fizzy sugar water.0 -
I thought it gave you wings? (Which is probably cheating
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Mmmmm...
Espresso and cake.0 -
don't know for cycling, never tried it, but for running i can't say it works, but drinking a bottle of SIS Go before a race does seem to make a difference to me, may work fr cycling as well.0
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I find that it helps me more mentally than physically. I am more alert after drinking one, but don't notice any physical improvement.0
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