Hydration

One major component of planning nutrition for performance/physique optimisation is a topic people don’t touch on nearly enough: hydration. Hydrating is neither sexy nor fun, plus selling water as a performance enhancing supplement isn’t the brightest marketing plan. Therefore, we don’t hear much about water and how it can impact your performance. 

We all know that our body is mostly water. Water has a ton of different functions within the body and all of our cells. As much as we’d love to delve into the myriad functions of water and successfully bore everyone to death like usual, let’s just focus on how water can impact our performance in the gym and our resultant gains. Now while you’re reading this I want you to pause- and get yourself a glass of water!! 

one review covering hydration and performance states that even mild dehydration consistently decreases muscle force production by 2%, power output by 3%, and endurance performance by 10%. Those numbers may not sound huge, but if you are constantly dehydrated like most people are, then you are consistently missing out on those precious few percentages every time you go into the gym.

Water is not at all exciting, but it may be one of the most important factors for your performance today and your GAINZZ in the long term. Luckily, it’s one of the easiest deficits to overcome. Just get yourself a water bottle and keep it at your side at all times! 

If you absolutely can’t stand plain water, don’t be afraid to put some sort of flavouring into it to make it more of a tasty experience during the day. Whatever you have to do, just get it Done ✅ 

Yours truly. 

References:

The Effect of Fluid Replacement on Endurance