I’m finally joining the homebrew drink mix club! However, I’m not sure what ratio to mix malto and fructose. Should I… A.) Use a 2:1 ratio as has been preached on here in the past or B.) Use a 1:0.8 ratio as Beta Fuel and Maurten now employ Thanks!

paging @Dr_Alex_Harrison :innocent:

60g Gatorade powder 30g maltodextrin or dextrose (because I have it) Table salt as required. 1-1.5 bottles per hour depending on the effort and temp. But really, drink as much of whatever ratio you can stomach. We can argue all day but #maginalgains isn’t super relevant for most of us.

Try the Alacrity Fuel app from @Dr_Alex_Harrison . It’s really helpful.

I use the 1:0.8 ratio at the moment. I really like it: it is not overly sweet and is quite cost effective. I decided upon that ratio, because I want to use one energy mix for all circumstances.

[image] trevlenhart: I’m not sure what ratio to mix malto and fructose. Should I… … experiment and see/feel how you perform on the different ratios. Do a series of sessions on one ratio say for a week, and swap out for the other ratio for the next week of sessions, hopefully the sessions are…

[image] Homemade Drink Mix Calculator - Doc Share Nutrition Hi all, I’ve been working on a side project and after listening to the crew discuss their TR drink mix ideas last week I figured I would share it in case anyone else found it handy. [image] The concept uses an …

For what it’s worth, I’ve had good luck with 53/42/2.5/2.5 Maltodextrin/fructose/citric acid/baking soda mix. I’ll take 450g Maltodextrin, 400g fructose, 25g each citric acid and baking soda, and mix it all up in a (well covered) stand mixer. For a little flavor I like True Lemon (or lime or orange)…

[image] toyman: paging @Dr_Alex_Harrison [image] clip78: Try the Alacrity Fuel app from @Dr_Alex_Harrison . It’s really helpful. It’s been renamed to “Saturday,” and Alacrity Endurance has been renamed (and is being rebranded) to Saturday Morning LLC, because who doesn’t love Saturday M…

Personally I’ve been doing 1:1 with good luck, and usually 5g of sodium citrate powder (1,000 mg sodium) per hour when I’m sweating hard. A light workout I’ll usually back off on the fructose to make it less sweet, but hard / longer workouts I’ll scale up to 60g malto / 60 g fruc / 5 g sodium citr…

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Sorry if I’m late to the party, but this feels like it may come in handy to you! Give it a read and download the sheet to play with if you’d like. Cheers!

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