The best juice for exercise such as weight lifting, yoga, and cycling is beetroot juice. Beetroot juice causes the body to produce more nitric oxide (NO), which improves blood flow and increases muscular endurance. One of many such scientific studies on the effect of beetroot juice and exercise notes:
Dietary supplementation with beetroot juice (BR) has been shown to reduce resting blood pressure and the O(2) cost of submaximal exercise and to increase tolerance to high-intensity cycling. We tested the hypothesis that the physiological effects of BR were consequent to its high NO(3)(-) content per se, and not the presence of other potentially bioactive compounds.
See, “”Dietary nitrate supplementation reduces the O2 cost of walking and running: a placebo-controlled study.”
Beetroot juice has been scientifically proven to be a major exercise boost:
Six days of dietary nitrate supplementation in the form of beetroot juice (~0.5 L/d) has been reported to reduce pulmonary oxygen uptake (VO₂) during submaximal exercise and increase tolerance of high-intensity work rates, suggesting that nitrate can be a potent ergogenic aid.
See, “Nitrate supplementation’s improvement of 10-km time-trial performance in trained cyclists.”
Beet juice will improve your performance in the gym. Now how to use it?
Beet juice tastes earthy because a beet is short for beetroot. That is, beets grow in the ground like other roots. You need to scrub the layer of dirt off the beet in order to get a better taste.
You also need to balance beets with some sharpness and sweetness. Throw this into your juicer:
- 1 beet
- 2 lemons
- 2 carrots
Juice it all up. I add creatine, BCAAs and/or protein powder to mine.
I once gave some friends beet juice. They thought they had colon cancer, as their stools were red. Beet juice may turn your urine red or make your excretions look like red velvet cake. That’s perfectly natural.
Read next: Liver Detoxing Juices.
Also, use a straw for beets, fellas. Unless you wanna look like you just put on lipstick.
i’m gonna start quasi juicing
example
get the beet juice and add it to a flavorful base of ingredient
suggestion:
1/2cup sweet vermouth
2/3cup red wine
1/4cup cider vinegar
1/4cup honey or brown sugar
whole cloves to taste
cinnamon stick, ground to taste
1sprig fresh rosemary, medium (remove after boiling)
2 orange slices, 1/4-inch thick, seeds removed
all these suggested ingredients will go in to a saucepan and boil together for 3 mins to mingle flavors and boil off the alcohol then in to the fridge to cool to room temp. after it is cool, add beet juice and stir.
Nice. My friend makes screwdrivers with his juicer. If you were going to have alcohol anyway, then juicing is a great idea. Why not at least mitigate what you were going to do? I’m not a zealot. Life is often all about making “better bad” choices.
Your recipe was too tart for me “as is.” I’m going to use only one lemon next time.
uhhh…..lmao when I saw this: “For the same reason beet juice helps with boners, beet juice provides a major exercise boost” bwahahahahaha I didn’t know beet juice helped boners!