There are essentially two things without which the human being cannot live without; oxygen and water. Yes, we do need food for energy as well, but we can last a lot longer without food than we can without either oxygen or water.
Water helps maintain life, but it also performs several other vital roles throughout your body, including:
- Aiding the digestion of food and helping to convert it to usable energy;
- Regulating your core body temperature via sweating and condensation;
- Removing metabolic by-products such as carbon dioxide from your hard-working muscles;
- Serving as a critical element of your brain, blood, bones, skin, organs and muscles; and
- Transporting oxygen throughout your body
Drinking water and staying hydrated is vital to your good health, and even more so if you are a sportsperson. It is important to drink sufficient water throughout the day, even if you are not physically active, especially in warmer climes.
If you are physically active in your work, take part in sports or visit a gym regularly you need to ensure that you hydrate well before the time and have a bottle of water handy if it is a prolonged bout of physical exertion. Studies have shown that most individuals tend to forget about hydrating sufficiently before the time, and in excess of 40% of gym-goers were found to be at least partially dehydrated during their workouts.
Dehydration can have a significant effect on both physical and mental performance; when your body does not have sufficient water it will take water from wherever it can in order to ensure that the most vital organs continue to work, and this can result in sore, cramped muscles, fatigue, headaches, an inability to think clearly or perform even simple calculations, and more.
In order to keep your body’s water at the required approximately 70% level, it is important that you drink water first thing in the morning, throughout the day and again last thing at night. Monitor your level of hydration easily by checking the colour of your urine; the lighter it is, the more hydrated you are, and the darker it is the more dehydrated your body is.
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