Is it good to drink water immediately after strenuous exercise?

The topic of weight loss is becoming more and more popular nowadays, and exercise has become the first choice for many people to lose weight, but most of them have never understood some precautions of exercise. Just like many people habitually drink a large bottle of water after exercise to solve the problem of thirst and relieve their feeling of dry mouth, but they don’t know that this practice is not good for our health.

Although people feel like replenishing water very much, because the body is still in a state of motion, the pulse and blood pressure will be higher than usual. Drinking water all at once will stimulate the heart and stomach, and make the body more uncomfortable.

Moreover, drinking water immediately after exercise will dilute the body's fluids, suddenly increase blood volume, and increase the burden on the heart. In addition, a large amount of water stored in the stomach will affect the rise and fall of the diaphragm, hinder breathing, make people feel uncomfortable, and reduce exercise ability. If you drink too much water in a short period of time, it will increase the body's urination and sweating. The former will increase the burden on the kidneys, and the latter will further cause the loss of salt in the body, leading to electrolyte imbalance and affecting the body's ability to exercise. Therefore, it is not suitable to drink water immediately after exercise.

The correct time to drink water is about 10 minutes after exercise, or after strenuous exercise, you can drink water after doing physical rest such as slow walking to allow your pulse and heartbeat to return to normal levels. The limit for water replenishment is that it should not exceed 100ml each time, and the interval between water replenishment is 10 minutes. In this way, the body slowly accepts the water supply and there will be no series of discomfort reactions. In addition to replenishing water, you can also take some vitamin and mineral drinks to assist in the recovery of physical energy.

Now that you know the dangers of drinking water immediately after exercise, I hope you will not make this mistake again. This will only make exercise harmful to your health instead of enhancing your physical fitness. I also hope you can follow the correct drinking time above and let water become the foundation of your health instead of a hazard. Let us consider our physical health while exercising to lose weight.