SOme of my friends don't...but I always have it for meets, and anything else. My fave is aquafina raspberry, but the aquafina alive in berry pomegranate is a close second....I'm an aquafina fan, I admit it!

i like the pure aquafina water, not the flavored waters, esp. for compettions and practice. chocolate or candy or a small snack is good to get the flavor part from lol. at my gym, some of the gymnasts also like gatorade.

I hate gatorade! Always have....but it is really popular.

ya i don't like gatorate either! it's full of color - like ur drinking color water, and it colors ur mouth and everything too. commercials for it are interesting tho - shows the color thing in ur body too lol! sometimes i take juice to practice, along with a water also (in case i don't feel like having the sugar). water works good - like jts puts it, the snack part u take along it gives the extra stuff u need - sugar or salt, or flavor, etc.!

i heard vitamin water and those water juices that have all those 'stuff' in them like gonkova or something are actually bad for u - it was on 20/20 and the news. i like h20..........real water :D Sometimes I bring juice along too. gatorade tastes kind of fake and unnatural.