Showing posts with label exercise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exercise. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Warning Signs You Could Be Dehydrated ...
- You’re thirsty
- Your skin and mouth are dry
- You have a headache
- You’re dizzy or lightheaded
- Your urine is dark yellow
- You feel sluggish and foggy brained
- You’re constipated
- You constantly crave snacks and sugar
- In extreme cases, you might experience confusion, palpitations, fainting, weakness, decreased urination and in severe cases, seizures. These symptoms require immediate medical attention.
When you're dehydrated, you lose sugar and salts as well as water. Drinking a rehydration solution will enable you to re-establish the right balance of body fluids. The solution should contain a mixture of potassium and sodium salts, as well as glucose or starch.
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Infused Water over Sports Drinks
For those who are wondering, what is infused water and why should I drink it? Here's a simply answer to that question.
There are products with electrolytes in the market, hydration drinks (or sport drinks) contains electrolytes and usually contains a high amount of sodium, and sugar. Sodium will assist the body on liquid retention during dehydration while practicing sports, exercising or working out. Sugar will only give a good flavor and a little bit of energy. Because of it, it is not recommended drinking any sports drink, if we don't really need that extra help for our body and if aren't really working out, most likely, that non burned sugar will become fat, if it's not converted to energy on the right time.
A way to stay hydrated while working out, exercising, at school, work, while walking or any other activity is just drinking simple water. Sometimes, just drinking water may result boring, and there's were the fruit infused water takes and important role. The only thing you have to do is put some fruit into your bottle of water, and you are ready to go.
A way to improve the absorption of water, in order to increase the flavor on it, is using hot water. You can prepare your hot water infused bottle one hour before going out, and add some ice when leaving, this way you'll have more flavor on it, and it will be refreshing when you need it.
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There are products with electrolytes in the market, hydration drinks (or sport drinks) contains electrolytes and usually contains a high amount of sodium, and sugar. Sodium will assist the body on liquid retention during dehydration while practicing sports, exercising or working out. Sugar will only give a good flavor and a little bit of energy. Because of it, it is not recommended drinking any sports drink, if we don't really need that extra help for our body and if aren't really working out, most likely, that non burned sugar will become fat, if it's not converted to energy on the right time.
A way to stay hydrated while working out, exercising, at school, work, while walking or any other activity is just drinking simple water. Sometimes, just drinking water may result boring, and there's were the fruit infused water takes and important role. The only thing you have to do is put some fruit into your bottle of water, and you are ready to go.
A way to improve the absorption of water, in order to increase the flavor on it, is using hot water. You can prepare your hot water infused bottle one hour before going out, and add some ice when leaving, this way you'll have more flavor on it, and it will be refreshing when you need it.
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Friday, August 22, 2014
Muscle Recovery. You must know
Letting muscles rest is the most important part of exercising. Overall, for most exercises, resting 48 hours should be sufficient, but always consult your instructor and pay attention to your body signals.
Excessive recovery, however, may impact directly on your performance. According to American Fitness Professionals and Associates, after 96 hours changes associated with muscle atrophy begin. Although a split session targets each area twice per week, more time and higher intensities can be used.
Other factor on muscle recovery related to nutrition: fluid and electrolyte status (hydration), muscle glycogen, reducing muscle stress and rebuilding muscle protein.
Taking in fluids and carbohydrates both during and immediately after a workout, says Fitzgerald, is vital to a speedy recovery. You should eat a high-protein meal as soon after exercising as possible in order to ensure a rapid rebuilding of muscle tissue.
Take also in mind these facts:
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Excessive recovery, however, may impact directly on your performance. According to American Fitness Professionals and Associates, after 96 hours changes associated with muscle atrophy begin. Although a split session targets each area twice per week, more time and higher intensities can be used.
Other factor on muscle recovery related to nutrition: fluid and electrolyte status (hydration), muscle glycogen, reducing muscle stress and rebuilding muscle protein.
Taking in fluids and carbohydrates both during and immediately after a workout, says Fitzgerald, is vital to a speedy recovery. You should eat a high-protein meal as soon after exercising as possible in order to ensure a rapid rebuilding of muscle tissue.
Take also in mind these facts:
- Larger Muscles Require More Recovery Time
- Larger Numbers of Muscles Requires More Recovery Time
- More Training Requires More Recovery Time
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Right Time To Rehydrate [Workout Tips]
You know how it feels to exercise in 90-degree heat if you skimped on water beforehand. Now, new research has quantified dehydration’s actual physical effect on performance and led to a new way to think about watering up pre-workout.
According to the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, for every 1% body mass you lose through sweat, your heart rate ticks up three beats a minute, which means it has to work harder. Not good. On the flip side, “staying hydrated helps hold in more water, so your heart has to work less to pump the blood to muscles,” says study author William Adams, M.S., A.T.C., so “keeping your heart rate low allows you to exercise with a higher intensity.”
Studies have found that athletes who lose as little as two percent of their body weight through sweating have a drop in blood volume, which causes the heart to work harder to circulate blood. A drop in blood volume may also lead to muscle cramps, dizziness, fatigue and even heat stroke
According to the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, for every 1% body mass you lose through sweat, your heart rate ticks up three beats a minute, which means it has to work harder. Not good. On the flip side, “staying hydrated helps hold in more water, so your heart has to work less to pump the blood to muscles,” says study author William Adams, M.S., A.T.C., so “keeping your heart rate low allows you to exercise with a higher intensity.”
Studies have found that athletes who lose as little as two percent of their body weight through sweating have a drop in blood volume, which causes the heart to work harder to circulate blood. A drop in blood volume may also lead to muscle cramps, dizziness, fatigue and even heat stroke
Article based on: http://www.mensfitness.com
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