Beer and running go well together

Non-alcoholic beer as isotonic drink after your run

Running amplifies the metabolic processes in your body and due to an increased sweating you are loosing a lot of fluid, sugar, vitamins and minerals. Having an isotonic drinks after your run is good for your body as it delivers energy, strengthens your immune system as well as having anti-inflammatory effects. Isotonic drinks have the same concentration and composition of solid and fluid components as your blood. That’s why these drinks can be ingested by your body quickly and easily. They fill up your energy storage and help your body to regenerate quicker. Simultaneously, magnesium and calcium help you muscles to recover and minerals like potassium and sodium help to equate your fluid balance. 

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Non-alcoholic beer has recently become one of the most famous isotonic drinks for sportsmen. Especially at running events non-alcoholic beer has become increasingly popular. Most of them are sponsored by “Erdinger Alkoholfrei” (alcohol free wheat beer). I have tried many different non-alcoholic beers after running and I have to admit that Erdinger is my favourite type of beer. No matter if it’s hot or cold: having a refreshing ice cold alcohol free Erdinger beer after my run is absolutely awesome and so tasty!




Non-alcoholic beer has about as many calories and carbohydrates as a isotonic sports drink, but contains less sodium:

	Normal isotonic drink	Non-alcoholic beer
carbs (in gramme)	13-17	14
calories	50-70	60-70
sodium (in milligram)	100	10

As not every run takes your body to the edge of exhaustion, non-alcoholic beer is a good choice after a normal training run. A recent clinical survey proves that drinking beer and doing sports go well together. The result of the worldwide biggest marathon study called „Be-MaGIC“ (Beer, Marathon, Genetics, Inflammation and the Cardiovascular system) with 277 marathon runners, conducted by Dr. Johannes Scherr of the TU in Munich states that drinking wheat beer – especially alcohol free – strengthens your immune system. The wonder elixir: polyphenol, a plant substance which has a health enhancing and cancer protective effect. 

Read more about the study here (only available in German): www.fitforfun.de/sport/laufen/alkoholfreies-bier

And if you want to find YOUR non-alcoholic beer, follow this link to a test report of alcohol free beer types (in German): www.runnersworld.de/ernaehrung/alkoholfreies-bier
 

And last but not least, here are my runs of the weekend:


Saturday, 24th November: 
http://runkeeper.com/user/Quissel/activity/133080236
 

Sunday, 25th November: 
http://runkeeper.com/user/Quissel/activity/133410268

 

Cheers guys! 
Kristin