Should i drink water in between excercise?

Question

If yes than how much water i should intake?

Answer 1

yes u can
but drink less water

Answer 2

Yeah, you should, but you need to be careful.

When you work out, you sweat and when this happens, your body will lose electrolytes in the sweat (such as sodium, potassium, etc). When you try to drink water you increase your water in your body, but you dont replace the electrolytes. This causes the remaining electrolytes to be more diluted (this is called being hypervolemic).

Now, if you drink something like gatorate, bad things can happen too. The osmolality (concentration) of the drink is typically too much and this causes the body to pull water out of the intracellular space into the serum causing hypervolemia as well.

Therefore, you should probably drink some diluted gatorate between exercises so this doesnt happen. Or, you can just drink some water with almost any kind of food.

Symptoms of severe hyponatremia (low blood sodium) can lead to heart irregularites and eventually death. So its important to watch your intake of electrolytes.

Regards,
Ryan

PS - THERE IS NO RESEARCH stating the "8 cups a day" rule. Honestly, people don't know where this number came from. Someone reply to this post with research that states you need 8 cups a day.

Dietitians will tell you that you should take in 1 milliliter of water for every calorie you need.

The government has set the Adequate Intake for water to be 3.7 liters for men and 2.7 for women. Again, do to the lack of research, there is no RDA for water - just an AI.

So just drink water throughout the day! If you feel thirsty, you are already mildly dehydrated.

Answer 3

Oh my gosh -- the confusion
So we've establshed you cant drink water before and during exercise and you shouldnt drink gatorade but watered down gatorade. Oh, but wait until youre thirsty to drink
What kind of people are giving advice.

Theyre all full of crap, but then again thats what you get when you seek out free advice -- its usually not worth the price.

Eh. mine is free, I make it a habit of only answering questions i know the answer to. You be the judge.

Depending on your workout, your body composition and your physical ability, all these will dictate just how much you need.
Unfortunately theres no set concrete format as to this person needs to drink this much for every workout seeing how different workouts will cause more persperation, hence your need to keep your body hydrated.

Now, if youre not drinking water until your thirsty, yourealready doing bad. That means your bodys already begun to dehydrate.

AND understand there is a thing as drinking to much water during a workout. Has the same effect as not enough water, which is funny.

funnier is all the different answers you get on here.
Either consult a nutritionist, because theres too many factors to take into consideration without seeing what type of shape youre in.
Or just learn for yourself what you need,

Coming from a golden gloved boxing, marathon running, college basketball player I would be lost without my plain ol gatorade.
It repleneshes alot of the sodium my body needs to function at my high intensive workouts for extended amounts of time.
My workouts last longer than the average person, and range from 2 hours boxing, to a 60 mile 4 1/2 hour bike ride.

they say 45 minutes 3 times a wekk is all a person needs to stay in shape -- i disagree but if you are one of these people, and its not a run day, i would say a 16-32 oz bottle of water would be good enough.

If youre out of shape, and its a run day, or high impact aerobics you are not accustomed to, then id say a water supplemtn like gatorade powerade or the like, just until your body gets to the point where it can run off the water.

Its your body, and only you are going to be able to master it, through trial and more trial. So, drink moderately, between excercises a gulp or 2 sustanined through your workout will go alot farther than trying to chug down a bottle before, because some nutjob told you you shouldnt drink during your workout.

With time, and more educated research youll soon learn how your body at its own level will function best under what circumstances

Hope it doesnt add to the utter confusion of this question

Answer 4

Yes, drink lots of water. Recommended daily is 64 ozs. But if your working out then you should increase your water intake.

Answer 5

generally a person should drink about a gallon a day, depends on how much you lose, temperature, your body mass, etc. And drinking more water makes you less hungry plus aids the digestion as well.

Answer 6

Yes. It's recomennded you drink 7 glasses of water per day.

Answer 7

no you shouldnt drink WHILE u exercise or b4 u do.. it can cause cramps... but ITS EIGHT glasses a day or more and not all at once.. try sipping water from a bottle and when u pass a fountain take a sip... the general rule is one ounce per pound of body weight.. thats what my personal trainer said but most ppl dont drink that much, which is why tere fat

Answer 8

Yes!!! also get in the habit of taking a bottle of water with you everywhere.

Answer 9

yes you should drink water before during and after exercise. your body must stay hidrated or you could suffer exhaustion from dehidration. just drink it when ever you feel thirsty. your body needs that water to cool its'self down

Answer 10

people say drink 2 gallons of water a day, but if its inbetween excerises then just maybe a water bottle, people say drink gatorade or powerade because it'll replenish what you lost but really its just up to you, if you drink one of those before excerise it'll just make you sleepy