Thursday, April 29, 2010

Beat your Personal Best - Drink a Slushie Before ....

Personal Best - Drink a Slushie Before Hot-Weather Workouts - NYTimes.com

An exercise researcher in New Zealand determined that drinking an ice slushie before exercising extended runners' endurance by an average of 10 minutes—a tidbit that might come in handy when you're tackling that 5k this summer.


Blood is directed to the skin for cooling, which means it is diverted from working muscles. The hotter it is, and the harder the effort, the harder exercise becomes. Eventually, you slow down or stop, unable to go on.

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