{"id":3363,"date":"2012-11-23T19:30:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T19:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2012-11-23T20:18:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T20:18:48","slug":"its-better-than-a-sports-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/its-better-than-a-sports-drink\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s better than a sports drink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, there are quite a few things better than sports drink, but here we are talking about our great yellow friend \u2014 the banana.<\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0Appalachian State University&#8217;s Human Performance Lab, the banana is rather better than the overhyped sports drink.<a href=\"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/banana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3364\" title=\"banana\" src=\"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/banana-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"banana or sports drink\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/banana-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/banana.jpg 563w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>Research was carried out during a simulated cycling road race lasting 2.5-3hrs. The cyclists were fuelled with either a cup of carbo drink or half a banana every 15 minutes and performance was the same regardless of the fuel used.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are added benefits from eating bananas, both from nutritional points and also financial.<br \/>More details of the banana study can be found on the <a title=\"bananas better than sports drink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news.appstate.edu\/2012\/05\/28\/bananas-are-beneficial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Appalachian State University&#8217;s news site<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, there are quite a few things better than sports drink, but here we are talking about our great yellow friend \u2014 the banana. According to the\u00a0Appalachian State University&#8217;s Human Performance Lab, the banana is rather better than the overhyped sports drink.Research was carried out during a simulated cycling road race lasting 2.5-3hrs. The cyclists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-advice","category-news","category-research","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3366,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions\/3366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}