What's your drink and fuel while on the trainer?

[toyman]

Gummy bears, and homemade electrolyte drink. This is likely not needed when it’s cold, but is essential for me during the summer when it is warm. If it’s a hard workout early in the morning, I’ll add maltodextrin to the drink for extra energy. I try to keep on trainer nutrition very low cost. I do have some gels by the trainer that I use maybe once every month or so if I think it will help get through a hard workout, but that’s the only time I’ll use them.

Here is a post about the drink mix I use:

Homemade electrolyte mix, 1-10 cents/serving

After reading the homemade recovery drink thread, I thought I’d post what I have been doing for hydration. I went down this route last summer as I was doing a fair bit of indoor training in my warm to hot garage - maybe 70ish in the morning, to 85-90 if I did the workout later in the day. I do OK in the heat, but need to drink a lot, and spending $1-2 every training session for some salt water started to bother me. The below recipe is less than 1 cent/serving for the electrolytes, and 5-10 ce…