SubscribeSpit or Swallow, Make Sure You Swish First!
Posted on Apr 10, 2011 under Factoids, fitness, nutrition | Comments are offYou’re probably going to swallow… You may occasionally spit…
…but when you’re consuming your carbohydrate sports nutrition make sure you swish it around in your mouth before you do.
Research has shown that “mouth rinsing” with a carbohydrate liquid can improve performance in workouts as short as 30 minutes. I have started using my carb drink as a mouth rinse before drinking it, and whether it’s psychosomatic or not I can’t say, but I definitely feel that I get the performance boost much more quickly than when I just drink it and wait for it to be absorbed through my gut.
Your mileage may vary, but it seems to work for me. Enough so that I’ll definitely swish before I swallow (or spit) from now on.
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