The importance of Hydration - Heads up
What's up brothers
I've always been the person who barely drinks enough during the day. Causes were exhaustion, bad breath as well as weakness and headaches.
One week ago I started drinking ~4 liters of water a day and I feel so much better! I used to be sleepy and have the above symptoms all the time! It's time to share this simple knowledge.
A special thing I've noticed is me waking up early. Since the last 4 days I've always been waking up at exactly 6:15 AM, feeling great after only a few hours of sleep. It's strange but I'm sure it's related to me drinking more than twice as much than before. Kind of annoying though since I set my alarm to 7:00 AM lol. However it's great not to feel sleepy and worn-out anymore.
For the interested people, here's an article I found a few days ago: [url]http://www.mensfitness.com/nutrition/what-to-drink/5-reasons-to-never-neglect-water[/url]
The core of the article and it's studies on the benefits of good hydration is solid. However disregard the part where they recommend bottled water over tap water.
Apparently, studies have proven that muscles are [B]~19% stronger when hydrated[/B] compared to a dehydration level of just 3%! The weights today felt much lighter than usual!
Here's an interesting article concerning the [B]correlation muscle strength and hydration.[/B]
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[B]Full article[/B]: [url]http://www.extension.iastate.edu/families/fluids[/url]
I highly recommend reading the article above. It's very detailed and accurate.
[B]Here's a list of the changes I could personally experience:[/B]
- Bad breath went away (I've always been worried about this one. I could've saved that money for chewing gums if I had known the importance of hydration)
- Less acne
- Not sleepy anymore (actually feeling energetic after waking up)
- No insane hunger all the time
- More strenght
- I lost water retention by drinking more water, basically doing the same as lowering the amount of sodium in your body
The only side-effect:
- Having to pee every 30-60 minutes
As for drinking too much, a lot of people are scared because they hear those freak news reports of people dying from people drinking too much water. Yes you can die from drinking too much water, however that would require at least 10 liters within a really small time frame.
So there you have it. Might be general knowledge for most of you but apparently, I didn't realize hydration was so important.
However I hope it was helpful for the people who disregarded proper hydration so far.
Lift strong brothers!
- Alex