Listen! You’d better drink water while training if you don’t want to collapse
Hi there!
I’m sure you’ve considered, more than once, to start practicing sports so that you can lose some of those extra kilos that prevent you from seeing your feet when having a shower in the morning. Go ahead, I’m with you! Get rid of your fears and strive forward, it’s not as hard as it looks…
Well, I’m not going to lie to you, but at the beginning it takes a little. It’ll be difficult to say goodbye to those sugary donuts that taste like heaven every afternoon, but when you forget to miss them, everything will start to rolls moothly.
Don’t be afraid by thinking you’re going to make a fool out of yourself next to those strapping youngsters who use really cool wording such as cross training, workout of day (WOD) or functional training instead of just saying that they’re going to do sports. You’ll get used to it. You’ll even know what the words mean and you’ll probably use them!
And talking about getting used to. There is something you should get used to doing from today onward: hydrate yourself properly. Put a bottle of water in your backpack.
Drink water before, during and after practicing sports if you don’t want to ‘die’ in the attempt. If not, you might finish the session with such a headache that the simple chirping of a cricket in the evening, will seem like the racket a bull would make singing heavy metal in a china shop.
You can be a dehydration victim if you forget to drink water during the WOD (Workout Of the Day), it might cause you to collapse. And of course, finding yourself on your last legs, the first day you enter the BOX isn’t going to go down well in front of those strapping youngsters… How embarrassing!
5 tips on hydration while training
Feeling a little dizzy:
This isn’t a tip, it’s clear advice. If you notice you’re starting to feel dizzy and you’re wandering round the box like a prune, my friend, you’re doing something wrong.
The sensation is similar to this:
First before arriving at the box, and after 15 or 20 minutes of training, hydrate yourself again. Actually, you should be the one to set the pace. You know yourself, you can see the efforts you’re making and only you know if you’re feeling well, unwell, normal or you’re just about to have a breakdown.
The more of a strain you make, the more you’ll need to replace and, if you know how to read between the lines, you’ll realise that your body itself will ask you to give it fuel.
If in doubt, a slug of water!
Hydration, yes. Flooding, no:
Don’t be wet behind the ears and go from one extreme to another: You shouldn’t drink 2 litres of water straight down like Nemo and his friends.
You have to drink water RA-TI-ON-ING it. What would be ideal? That every 10-20 minutes you drink about 200 millilitres (about half of a XoomShaker).
That way, you’ll keep your body hydrated throughout your training without the need to fill your belly up with two litres of water, which doesn’t help at all…
Cramps… Get back!:
Do you remember when we were little and we were told not to put water near a socket to avoid getting a shock? Well, now it’s time to disobey your motherbecause here it’s the opposite.
To avoid really painful shocks and stabbing pains that we feel while training… guess what you have to do? Yes, my friend! You have to hydrate yourself.
A hydrated muscle is a healthy muscle from which you’ll gain a much better performance, and the danger of injuring yourself will be a lot less likely. Come on, a 2 for 1!
And those ‘beefcakes’?:
Another aspect that will indicate that you have to drink water is the amount you’re sweating…
If you suddenly notice that you’re feeling hotter than normal, or you can squeeze juice out of your t-shirt, it’s time to drink water.
Careful! Not everybody sweats the same way, and we certainly don’t believe that the beefcake would have managed on only a small bottle of mineral water… but one thing we do promise, is that water will become a good friend of yours.
Water helps to regulate your body temperature, as well as keep your body hydrated in a balanced way, eliminate more toxins and improve the transportation of the necessary nutrients, vitamins and minerals to tissues and joints while we’re training.
Focus on yourself!:
If you go to the gym with a friend who drinks 10 bottles of water and soaks 5 t-shirts with sweat, don’t be a sheep and do the same. The quantity of water your body needs will depend on many factors such as your age, body fat index, your measurements and the training intensity…
For this reason, don’t be mislead by what your friends doing and try to ‘read’ what your body is asking you for.
So, is it therefore clear the importance of keeping hydrated while training? Always place yourself in the hands of professionals if you want to keep a control of your food in take and keeping in shape, as well as the correct way in which you have to hydrate yourself.
Before, during and after your cross training session, drink to our health. Or, better said, to yours.