You know the basics to lead a vibrant, healthy lifestyle: Eat a balanced diet that includes carbohydrates, protein, and fat; drink between eight to 10 glasses of water a day; and exercise at least three times a week. But to improve and then maintain your health and fitness, you may want to consider the benefits of using additional nutritional supplements, such as consuming multivitamins daily and, when you work out, opting for a sports drink, such as best-selling Cytomax Sport Drink, over water.

Why a Sports Drink?
When you perform any intense physical activity, such as running, biking, hiking, or climbing, your body sweats out its hydration and loses complex carbohydrates, which are responsible for keeping your strength levels up. In addition, your body produces lactic acid from glucose for energy. The downside? That “burn” you feel during strenuous exercise, which could lower your ambition or ability to perform to your potential. While water is, as always, crucial to maintain hydration, it cannot help with the “side effects” of exercising—which is where sports drinks come in.

Why Cytomax Sport Drink?
CytoSport, which produces Cytomax Sport Drink, is a company dedicated to providing quality dietary supplements for both beginning and professional athletes. It based Cytomax Sport Drink on its original high-performance powder mix, which has been used by professional athletes for more than 15 years. Cytomax Sport Drink provides electrolytes to help your body rehydrate, as well as complex carbohydrates to help stabilize your blood sugar during exercise, so you’ll maintain your strength for longer periods of time. Possibly the drink’s most noticeable benefit comes from its patented alpha L-PolyLactate energy formula, which lowers lactic-acid levels both during and after a workout by a staggering 40 percent—letting you recover your energy and return to your daily routine (including exercise!) faster.

Cytomax Sport Drink consumers, including pro cyclist Michael Sayers, say the drink has positively influenced their athletic development. Their reviews make sense. After all, in addition to its other benefits, Cytomax Sport Drink enhances oxygen delivery by up to 11 percent during exercise, making the activity seem easier and, more important, minimizing the damage to your muscles that leads to next-day soreness. According to CytoSport, its product boasts 80 percent less sugar than comparable ones, aiding in overall fat burn and weight loss.

Bonus!
A bonus? Happily enough, the taste. In Furious Fruit, Citrus Blast, and Wicked Orange, Cytomax Sport Drink is easy to enjoy both during and after workouts.

—Katie Gutierrez