Are you drinking too much...water?

[PaulB]

http://www.sportsscientists.com/201...s+(The+Science+of+Sport)&utm_content=FaceBook

Interesting stuff here backing the theory broadcast in the recent Panorama programme.

 

[ColinJ]

See also hyponatraemia and water intoxication!

 

[pauldavid]

Probably, so I'm gonna go for a pint(of brandy) tonight to try to level the balance

 

[ColinJ]

I have given myself a headache in the past by drinking too much water, too quickly in hot weather, but I have also got very dehydrated when not drinking enough.

I need to drink more water when I am overweight and unfit. I noticed that my needs reduced by about 50% when I got down to 12 stone. When unfit, I drink about 500 mL an hour, perhaps 600 - 700 mL an hour on very hot days. I add some salt to the drinks I make up for my rides. If I did an 8 hour ride on a hot summer day, I'd end up caked in salt from my sweat and that would need replacing.

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

What recent panorama?

 

[tyred]

Absolutely. Too much water ruins the taste of your whiskey.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

In hot weather I have been known to add those fizzy mineral tabletty things to my bottle. I tend to let my normal desire for drink to rule when I sup. No guzzling usually. Seems "common" sense works best

 

[numbnuts]

I'm not just had my water bill in still £17.10 per month

 

[Davidc]

Interesting link. I missed the Panorama (I've missed a lot the past month or so because of a time shortage).

I've always just drunk what my body tells me it wants, and generally only have a dehydration problem if my bottles run dry. I don't drink as much now I'm older and slower than in my youth, and even then never noticed any over hydration issues.

I can remember being told at school not to drink during exercise - an instruction I consistently ignored.

 

[ColinJ]

What recent panorama?

Probably this one, originally broadcast last July. (Available for another 6 months on iPlayer.)

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

Probably this one, originally broadcast last July. (Available for another 6 months on iPlayer.)

You know, I knew someone would post that link. A program which has nothing to do with most of the threads it's involved in. No surprise that the overarching theme hasn't changed.

Yet here we are. I'm off to put the kettle on.

 

[Kookas]

My sport drink (drink in general actually) of choice is milk.

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

My sport drink (drink in general actually) of choice is milk.

Milk and "sport drink" in the same sentence. I heard on the grapevine recently that Team Sky keep a cow in a special part of a team bus.

When it's beyond milking, she's sold to Contador's butcher

 

[ColinJ]

You know, I knew someone would post that link. A program which has nothing to do with most of the threads it's involved in. No surprise that the overarching theme hasn't changed.

Yet here we are. I'm off to put the kettle on.

A simple 'thank you for spending 3 minutes of your day trying to help me' would have sufficed!

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

A simple 'thank you for spending 3 minutes of your day trying to help me' would have sufficed!

Sorry this forum doesn't have a "Thank" button.