Can I drink water immediately after strenuous exercise?

I believe most people do some sports in their leisure time. However, normal exercise is relatively mild and is generally done to exercise the body. Athletes have to go through some very intense exercise every day and constantly break their limits. After strenuous exercise, everyone will secrete a lot of sweat, so at this time it is necessary to replenish water by drinking water.

Being thirsty does not mean that the body is actually lacking water. During strenuous exercise, muscles' demand for oxygen and nutrients increases dramatically, and the production of carbon dioxide and other metabolic products also increases a lot. The transport of oxygen, nutrients, carbon dichloride and metabolic products all depends on blood. To ensure the smooth progress of exercise, more blood must flow into muscles, joints and other motor organs, while the amount of blood flowing into digestive organs such as the gastrointestinal tract is relatively reduced. The blood vessels there are mostly in a state of contraction, gastrointestinal motility is weakened, and the secretion of digestive juices is reduced. This state will last until about half an hour after exercise before gradually recovering. If you drink water immediately after exercise, due to the extremely poor gastrointestinal absorption capacity at this time, a large amount of fluid accumulates in the gastrointestinal tract, which directly hinders the activity of the diaphragm, and then affects breathing, prolonging the time to repay the oxygen debt owed during exercise, which is not conducive to your health. If you drink a lot of cold drinks at this time, the situation will be worse, because cold drinks are a strong stimulus to the hot stomach, which increases gastrointestinal motility and produces strong contraction, causing abdominal pain, even colic, and easily causing gastrointestinal dysfunction and diarrhea.

In addition, after drinking a lot of water, it is first accumulated in the gastrointestinal tract and then absorbed into the blood, which will cause a sudden increase in circulating blood volume and increase the burden on the heart. Originally, the heart should rest well after strenuous exercise. But after drinking a lot of water, Xinsheng still needs to speed up his movements to complete the task.

Furthermore, when exercising, you sweat a lot and take away salt. If you drink a lot of water after exercise, the water is replenished but the salt is not, and the water-salt balance is lost. Moreover, drinking a lot of water will cause a lot of sweating, which will take away more salt, causing an imbalance in the water-salt ratio in the body and making the body more tired.

If you drink large amounts of milk or other beverages, it can cause acute pancreatitis and lead to sudden death. This happens frequently in clinical practice. Therefore, do not drink a lot of water after strenuous exercise. Instead, use warm water to moisten your throat and drink some light salt water first. After about 30 minutes, gradually replenish water.

Through the above introduction, everyone should now know that it is necessary to replenish a certain amount of water after strenuous exercise. Therefore, you cannot drink a lot of water after strenuous exercise, otherwise it will cause certain harm to various aspects of your body. In the above article, the editor also introduced the scientific method of drinking water after exercise. Friends in need can take a look.