Quote Originally Posted by AdamGB
It's not going to affect your conditioning as long as it's not making you pile on loads of fat.

With those things calories have never been an issue with me... I can burn them off... I do a fairly physical job every day and train 5, sometimes 6 days a week.

I can burn that S*** off

It's the saturates and chemicals in them which bother me. Bad for your metabolism. They might not be making you in bad condition but they will be stopping you developing... taking up the place of good calories in your diet and having shite in your system.
Actually as I ponder this further, if you are drinking regular Coke with sugar, that spike of sugar will affect energy levels, when you are training you want to use glycogen stored in muscles since its maintained through a long range... When you have sugar in your system you will burn that in bursts and then crash, so when a time that you need consistent energy you dont have it I liken it to a fire... Sure you can get spectacular intensity by having a fire consisting of only gasoline, but if you were to have a camp fire with wood then it burns more consitently and longer than a short burst of a gas fire...

Hope that makes sense