Endurox--does this stuff work?

I've never noticed any change by takeing it but if you can afford I say take it. If anything it gives you a lot of vitamins and other stuff that you wouldn't normaly get. It also forces you to drink right after your run makeing you hydrate a lot faster which is probably one of the best things about the stuff. But boy does it taste nasty. I recomend Tang no the Fruit crap.

Great stuff. Accelerade is made by the same company and is marketed as a pre-run drink. It's basically the same as Endurox R4. Both are great.

Jeff Galloway said at a recent pre-race dinner that they are the best on the market. Don't know if that's a ringing endorsement or not.

i used it this summer doing 90 mpw. i felt fine, i don't know if it was becuase of that or not. there is L-glutamine in it...which made me look a bit more cut than i do now. i'm broke so i don't have any :( i;m plan on using it again after i rob a bank.

I think it works pretty well.

I raced 75x in 2001, I used it and felt it worked, I evntually crashed, (piriformis) but will use it again when healed.

I'd be willing to bet that if you drank sugar water that some Madison Avenue type told you would make you run faster, you'd profess that the stuff did wonders for you.

In other words, its probably your gray matter that's more important.

I used to believe all sports drinks were simply placebo. However, I was feeling pretty wiped during some hard training this summer and decided to give Endurox a try. I figured it was going to be $29.99 flushed down the drain, however, I found otherwise - it has worked for me. Keep in mind it doesn't improve performance, it simply helps with recovery. Choke down a glass post-run (not exactly the tastiest thing), and whereas in the past I expected to be trashed the day after a knarly workout, now the next day isn't so bad. Placebo or not, it's worked for me enough that I bought a second helping. Give it a try.

Not *spancered* by Endurox, R4, etc...

*a cute misspelling of *sponsored* that has become legendary on another sports website

I think sugar water is really all you need (at 6-8% concentration). No one has shown that the addition of protein in a 4:1 concentration is "optimal". The studies I have seen didn't use any other ratios so how do we know that say, 3:1 or 10:1 don't work better? For that matter, in some studies the total amount of calories between the carb-only and carb+protein fluids was not held constant, so again, we don't know if it was the protein or the additional calories causing an effect. It may very well turn out that the addition of protein may enhance recovery, but the data isn't conclusive yet.

That being said, it's pretty easy (and very inexpensive) to make your own sports drink. Below is a link to an article I wrote for my club's newsletter on how to make your own. The straight carb version costs just a few cents per 8 oz. serving. The protein-added version costs an extra 25 to 30 cents per serving. Either way, it's way cheaper than Gatorade, Powerade, Accelerade or Endurox. Make your own, save some bucks, and decide for yourself. If you like it, you like. If you don't, you don't. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

http://www.dissidents.com/runstuff.htm