{"id":43,"date":"2026-09-01T10:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/supplements\/2026\/09\/01\/what-to-drink-around-a-hard-session\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T10:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:36:09","slug":"what-to-drink-around-a-hard-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/supplements\/2026\/09\/01\/what-to-drink-around-a-hard-session\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Drink Around a Hard Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The drinks aisle of a supplement shop is where the most money gets spent on the least benefit. Most sessions need water. A few need more than that, and it is worth knowing which.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before training, caffeine is the only ingredient with a reliable effect, and two hundred milligrams roughly ninety minutes out is plenty for most people. Citrulline and beta-alanine have modest evidence at honest doses. If a pre-workout will not tell you how much of each it contains, it is selling the tingle rather than the effect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During training, anything under an hour needs water and nothing else. Past that, or in real heat, sodium becomes the limiting factor long before carbohydrate does. An electrolyte drink at a sensible sodium concentration will do more for a long session than a sugary energy drink.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Afterwards, the famous thirty-minute window is much wider than it was once sold as. What matters is that protein and carbohydrate arrive at some point in the next few hours. A shake is convenient when appetite has not returned yet, which after a hard session is often the real problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-workout, intra-workout, electrolytes, recovery shakes. A plain guide to which of them earn a place in your bag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,26,19],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-energy","tag-hydration","tag-recovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/supplements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/supplements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/supplements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/supplements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/supplements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/supplements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/supplements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/supplements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/supplements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/supplements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}