Water, Water, Water

Listen, if you’re not paying attention to how you hydrate your body you’re literally not paying attention to your health. Intense physical exercise – the kind that we do and if you ever do it with me you’ll know the reason why – requires lots of water. Now I don’t think it all has to strictly be water, other liquids count into that area, but you have to be aware if it’s a liquid that pulls water away from your body or adds water to it. For instance – very diluted caffeinated tea or water with lemon is okay, but sugary drinks, caffeinated drinks, alcohol, etc. are not. Now can all these things be enjoyed in moderation at certain times? Absolutely, but rehydrating and hydrating during your workout needs to be done with these very basic liquids.

Drink your water! You know that many high level athletes especially high level athletes that train very hard sweat a lot, live in humid climates are consistently dehydrated. Long term dehydration leads to all kinds of problems: Kidney, joint problems as well as a drop in strength and drop in performance. At the extreme level it’s damaging to your heart. Take care of your body and be smart about being hydrated especially in the middle of the summer where the heat gets really crazy. If you live where I do or train like I train which includes a bizarre amount of an incredible, intensity and sweating then you need to make sure you’re hydrated. Don’t skip this – you will regret it! It is a big key to both health and lots of other factors that people are interested in; weight loss, fat loss, building muscle.

Within that be sure you keep control of the salt and make sure you get plenty of potassium. You know that most natural foods actually have a much higher level of potassium to sodium than most processed foods. In fact processed foods tend to radically ramp up the sodium and cut down the potassium. Potassium and sodium are always in competition for the water balance in your body and you need more potassium to help you keep that water. Make sure you keep the water and keep your potassium up. That means eat your bananas, eat your broccoli and supplement with potassium if necessary. Make sure you get that water because hydration is huge for health and performance.

God bless,
Bud Jeffries,

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