Sports drinks are especially made for sports persons. The athletes need more energy than normal while training or competing. They spend more electrolytes from their bodies in the form of perspiration during these times. The sports are so formulated that it compensates water loss, excess need of carbohydrates and electrolytes such as sodium and potassium in the athletes.

Sports drinks are high in sugar concentration. It may be glucose, high fructose in the form of corn syrup, or sucrose. These are absorbed quickly and hydrate the bodies of athletes after they have lost excess amount of water and electrolyte during practice or in a competition.  

• Athletes spend more calories than average persons. They strain physically to train and perform better. This makes them lose body fluids more than a normal person. This body fluid is thrown out of the body in the form of sweat, which keeps the body cool. But this process leads to dehydration that should be taken care of immediately, or the results may be fatal if lies unattended for a long time. Sports drinks are specially formulated to take care of this situation and rehydrate the body faster.
• This sweat carries with it vital minerals from the body. These are sodium, potassium, magnesium, and calcium etc. It may also throw out vital amino acids such as vit B Complex etc. These sport drinks are enriched with these minerals and vitamins that replenishes the loss of the nutrients immediately.
• These sports drinks are so formulated that it produces a comprehensive substitutions of body essentials for the athletes to maintain their health. These are of course designed for athletes who are adult and train for more than an hour at least. It prevents dehydration and loss of body’s essential nutrients. These sports drinks are not recommended for children, as they are not well tried yet.
• Sports drinks are a helping tool for the athletes to train for longer time and perform better in competitions. Sports drinks provide extra energy to the muscles and the brain of the athlete. It also helps by restoring nutritional elements in the body in the shortest possible time. Sports drinks are instrumental in protecting the athlete’s body from any permanent damage. 
• Sports drinks work fast to replenish the Glycogen stores in the athlete’s body. It does so by replenishing the glycogen stores with glucose which are at their low levels while the athlete is training or competing.
• Sports drinks are helpful in improving the endurance power of the athlete. It also improves the quality of resistance workout. The sports drink provide a stimulating effect if taken before the sports activity actually begins. It helps to make the sportsman alert and focused for a win.
• Sports drinks contain apart from carbohydrates, calcium, magnesium, chloride, phosphate, potassium, sodium etc which are vitals and essentials for the body. These electrolytes help to regulate the body fluids during training or competing time. It reduces the athlete’s mental fatigue and improves brain function. The athlete becomes alert with an improve4d memory and good concentration and improved reaction time.