What's the best drink after playing basketball?

In high school, students’ daily task is to study, study and study again, and the only extracurricular activity is physical education class. Boys in high school love to show off. It is a proud thing to complete a slam dunk in front of girls and make the girls in the class cheer. Some handsome boys even have fans who prepare various drinks for boys on the basketball court, but they don’t know what is the best drink for boys after playing basketball.

Replenishing water before, during and after exercise is a science. Drinking the right amount of water will help maintain fluid balance and ensure the health and safety of fitness enthusiasts. When exercising, you sweat a lot, and sweat contains many ions. At this time, drinking plain water without any ions will not have any replenishing effect. However, light salt water can replenish lost ions in time and prevent adverse reactions such as hyponatremia.

It is better to drink sports drinks when playing basketball. Sports drinks are formulated based on the physiological consumption of human exercise and are beverages for special groups of people. Sports drinks mainly contain electrolytes, vitamins, amino acids and other ingredients, which can replenish the nutrients needed by the human body, resist fatigue and balance metabolism.

For people who exercise for a long time and consume a lot of physical energy, mineral water or boiled water alone is not enough to replenish the energy consumed by the human body. It is necessary to supplement some other trace elements such as sodium and potassium in time to maintain the body's electrolyte balance. At this time, choosing some sports drinks containing a variety of alkaline electrolytes can effectively replenish the body's lost energy and quickly restore the state.

For many ordinary fitness enthusiasts, sports drinks can be used when the amount of exercise is large and the body loses more water. If the exercise time is about one hour and the intensity is not high, there is no need to supplement with sports drinks. This is because although the body will consume a certain amount of energy during exercise and does need to recover in time after exercise, ordinary fitness enthusiasts do not have to constantly improve their athletic ability, and their exercise load is not as large as that of athletes. They have more time to recover after exercise, so they can fully recover through a normal diet and do not necessarily have to drink sports drinks.

In fact, if you are not exercising or the intensity of the exercise is high, blindly supplementing with sports drinks will have adverse effects. The sugar in sports drinks will lead to increased energy intake, and excessive intake will increase the possibility of obesity. The sodium salt in them will increase the burden on the body, causing adverse effects such as excessive heart load and increased blood pressure.