waters relation to exercise

Did you know that the human body is made up of over sev­enty five per­cent water and as you prob­a­bly know, you can­not live with­out water. We can sur­vive at most three days with­out con­sum­ing water how­ever after that we run into seri­ous and life threat­en­ing prob­lems. Most peo­ple though have replaced water in their diet with soft drinks such as coca cola and lemon­ade. These drinks con­tain sugar and arti­fi­cial sweet­en­ers and colours. Water how­ever is the best alter­na­tive and is needed in your diet, espe­cially if you want to lose weight.

There are lots of dif­fer­ent things that can affect your water con­sump­tion such as how much exer­cise you do, your weight and your body tem­per­a­ture. It has actu­ally been proven by research that two thirds of adults dont drink the amount of water they need on a daily basis. Drink­ing water means you keep hydrated and your body func­tion­ing as it should.

A key point in water con­sump­tion is that you should drink water on a reg­u­lar basis as well as when you are thirsty. By doing this it means you keep hydrated and avoid los­ing the water that is com­monly lost by the time your body realises its thirsty. As men­tioned pre­vi­ously about peo­ple drink­ing soft­drinks such as coca cola over water another com­mon prob­lem is peo­ple sub­sti­tut­ing water for other bev­er­ages such as alco­hol or caf­feine bev­er­ages which can cause you to uri­nate more then nor­mal and dehydration.

Did you also know that when you exer­cise you lose water through sweat­ing mean­ing you should infact con­sume more water when you are exer­cis­ing. Your body also loses water while sleep­ing so it is rec­om­mended that you drink water prior to going to sleep to keep your nor­mal bod­ily functions.

Another thing to remem­ber is that if you become ill you should drink more water then on a nor­mal day to day basis. Some exam­ples of becom­ing ill include get­ting the cold or flu. Your body is more prone to dehy­dra­tion when sick and drink­ing water can com­bat this. Sick or not though, you should make a hab­bit of drink­ing water on a daily basis.

So keep a bot­tle of water on you at all times and enjoy the health ben­e­fits it brings.

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