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Usually, I'm not the one to be jumping on fab-fitness fads, but I saw some Vitamin water on sale, like 10/$10, so I decided to give it a shot...So far, I think it's pretty good...I'm not so sure all the flavors are to die for, but the few that I've had seem pretty good...

Any of you ever gave it a shot..?

http://www.vitaminwater.com/

I didn't like it. Gatorade is alright but that is pretty sweet as well. If you want to get hardcore on energy, there's a bottle they sell at the oriental market with a ginseng root in it. It tastes like shit but I'm wide awake afterwards.

If I had to pick, I'd choose Gatorade.

125 calories per bottle.
32.5 grams of sugar per bottle. (8 tablespoons!!!)
26 grams of carbohydrates per bottle.

NOT HEALTHY!!! in fact, this is as bad as drinking 85% of a can of coke.

make koolaid, man. but regulate that shit too!

i dunno the health benefits of vitamin water, but i do enjoy it.

raum wrote:125 calories per bottle.
32.5 grams of sugar per bottle. (8 tablespoons!!!)
26 grams of carbohydrates per bottle.

NOT HEALTHY!!! in fact, this is as bad as drinking 85% of a can of coke.

make koolaid, man. but regulate that shit too!

I agree. It's the same as those new-market "energy drinks" you see everywhere, that contain vitamins you are duped into thinking you need, but they contain mere stimulants and heaps of heaps of sugar to pour over that enormous caloric content to begin with.

I'd rather propose that a 16oz. bottle of filtered tap water and a banana provides just as much energy from those expensively marketed cans and vitamin water bottles as you might need for any endurance sport. If that is not readily available, watered-down Gatorade (which is to say a giant tub of Gatorade with ice that melts over 1-5 hour(s) period of athletics) is the alternative choice.