Pop

It is loaded with sugar, as well as, caffeine, and most of all carbonated water. Carbonated water makes you urinate your electralytes away (notably potassium and sodium) and should never be given on game day at all to drink!

Coach Easton

It is loaded with sugar, as well as, caffeine, and most of all carbonated water. Carbonated water makes you urinate your electralytes away (notably potassium and sodium) and should never be given on game day at all to drink!

Coach Easton

I didn't know that specifically - that it made you urinate those electrolytes. A professor talked to us about nutrition and hydration in college and claimed that if you drank 12 oz of pop, you would have to drink 24 oz of water just to get your hydration level back to where it was.
On a related topic, my girlfriend is a phamaceudical sales rep and pedals an overactive bladder drug. While speaking with a urologist (sp?), she was told that unless you are a vigorous exerciser, you don't really need 64 oz of water a day or whatever is "recommended." He claimed that it was actually bad for you to drink that much as you are overworking your body.
That was news to me as I always prided myself on looking at my urine and making sure it was clear before I quit drinking. Not true according to this guy.
BTW, I understand most of us exercise intensely, as do our athletes. Just thought it was interesting. There must me something wrong with this thread as you and I are making lots of duplicates, coach.

My girlfriend is going to college for nursing and she also said that she learned in one of her classes that drinking too much water is bad for you, and that we don't need as much water as is recommended. IMO athletes should be drinking more water and no pop at all.

I had a seventh grader tell me the other day that she gets headaches if she does not get her daily dose of Mountain Dew.

That's great...7th graders are so hooked on soda that the go into withdrawal when they don't get it.