Healthy body always leads to healthy soul. Not just to lose weight, but keeping yourself fit is an essential part of a life. Doing workout or exercise always improves our health quality, immunity power and boosts up our life.
While many of us do regular exercises, we forget to maintain some rules which directly or indirectly affect our body; one of them is how to stay hydrated during our workout regime. Today, we are going to discuss this and talk about few tips to stay hydrated during our daily exercise routine.
Do you want to know about workout?
While exercise refers a general concept of different physical activities, workout, more specifically denotes a precise pattern of practicing or doing physical exercises. Exercise can be a single pattern of physical activities like pushups, swimming, running etc. But, workout is a set and systematic pattern of different exercises.
Why do we need a personal trainer?
At first glance, the concept of personal trainer might seem expensive but a personal trainer offers different services like personal training, home training, outdoor training, group training, sports massage, nutritional advice and plans, corporate fitness and many more. You cannot follow any random exercise routine because you need to do some special exercises that suit your body. You need to hire a Personal Trainer who can prepare a customized workout plan along with a diet chart.
Moreover, they are knowledgeable, as a set of exercises needs to be determined according to the individual’s physical need and structure, and know the proper workout regime for your body. They are empowered with the experience along with the proper guidelines and tips that you need to follow. They can suggest you to drink enough water in a day to stay hydrated and you can also drink some juices and energy drinks for the same.
Why hydration is important?
Approximately 55% – 66% of a human body is made of water. While working out, our body loses water at a rapid pace, causing dehydration. At this point, heal illness may easily occur which causes heat cramps, heat exhaustion and finally heatstroke. So, do not forget to stay hydrated during workout regime.
Stay hydrated:
Here are some useful tips to stay hydrated.
• Weigh how much fluid you need to intake while working out:
This totally depends on your type of activities that you follow, and you need to decide your water consumption level according to your physical structure, gender and most importantly, on weather. In UK, within a single day, the weather changes from sunny to cloudy to rainy. The average temperature remains in between 18-25 degree Celsius. For this,
- Intake 8 ounces of fluid during the warm-up session.
- During the workout session, drink 7 – 10 ounces of fluid or water in every 10 – 20 minutes.
• Do not frequently go for sports drinks:
Sports drinks are only useful for the extensive and intense workout regime, and you need to discuss the same with your trainer to intake sports drinks. If the time of your workout regime remains within one hour, it would be advisable not to take it during your workout, as it may lead to some dangerous side effects.
• Use Sport Drinks Wisely:
Most of the cases, water suffices to stay hydrated. But if you are into intense or vigorous workout regime, you might need sports drinks. You need to be very careful while choosing it because a sport drink is infused with high calories, sodium and added sugar.
Some sports drinks even contain caffeine. So be selective and do not pick any sports drink randomly. It is advisable to consult an expert or your personal trainer.
• Small Sips:
Large amount of water gulping at a time can be proved as dangerous. Sipping small amount of water at a regular pace helps your body to avoid dehydration. Having mouthful of water at a time leads you to rush to the washroom frequently which may cause dehydration, and you need to intake water according to the suggestion of your personal trainer.
If you feel muscle cramps, dry mouth, nausea, dizziness, fast heartbeat, then you must consult a doctor. These might be the symptoms of dehydration. Keeping the balance of water/fluid in your body is really necessary. Hopefully, these tips will help you to stay hydrated and to sustain a healthy life.
