Not Drinking Enough Will Affect Your Workouts
No, I’m not referring to drinking enough “alcohol”. Sorry. I’m talking about drinking enough fluids, especially water. Not drinking enough and keep yourself properly hydrated will no doubt cause a negative impact on your workouts designed to help you gain weight and build muscle mass naturally.
According to the Journal Strength Conditioning Research, something as low-to-moderate intensity inducing exercise as walking on a treadmill at 70 percent in heat will result in dehydration and will lower your upper body strength and power by 7 percent and your lower body’s by 19 percent. Imagine how much faster you’ll lose out if you are performing high intensity weight workouts, which are much more demanding on the body than just walking briskly on a treadmill.
Now, you don’t have to go out and spend a ton of money on all of these fancy little flavored waters or sports drinks. Good old water is enough, as long as you drink lots of it and have a balanced approach to eating as well.
Water is very important, as can be demonstrated at this time of year when professional football teams in the NFL are going through their drills, preseason training and conditioning, etc. How many unfortunate deaths have already occurred to some of these massive athletes that have died on the practice field from heat strokes suffered because of lack of adequate hydration under such extreme conditions?