What precautions should be taken when drinking water after intense exercise?

Now more and more people are joining the fitness ranks, but most of them do not understand the details of fitness, and those details are very important factors for our physical health. For example, sometimes we exercise without a plan. If we are happy today, we will exercise more, and if we are unhappy, we will exercise less. After fitness, some people have to take a cold shower because it is very hot, and some people drink a lot of water after fitness. These are bad habits. The following editor will introduce to you the precautions for drinking water after fitness.

After strenuous exercise, people often sweat a lot to remove heat, and sweat also removes some of the salt in the blood. If you drink a lot of water right away, it will increase sweat excretion, causing more salt loss, and increase blood circulation, thereby increasing the burden on the heart. Therefore, people should not drink water immediately after strenuous exercise.

Sports drinks should not be consumed casually. Taking them when they are not needed may cause harm to the body. In addition to water, functional drinks also contain glucose, sodium, and potassium. These substances only need to be replenished after a large amount of loss. If exercise does not cause the loss of solutes such as sodium and potassium, drinking a large amount of functional drinks will increase the sodium and potassium content, which may affect the balance of water and electrolytes.

Hydration during exercise is very important. Exercise intensity, duration, weather conditions, etc. all have an impact. The easiest way is to judge based on weight. Since dehydration is the main reason for weight loss after exercise, you can calculate the proportion of dehydration to body weight based on the method of "pre-exercise weight minus post-exercise weight divided by pre-exercise weight". When the amount of dehydration is less than 1% of your body weight, you will feel slightly thirsty and only need to drink ordinary water. When the amount of dehydration is 2%-3% of your body weight, taking a 50 kg body weight as an example, if your weight drops by 1-1.5 kg after exercise, you need to drink salt water with a concentration below 0.9%. Only when the amount of dehydration is greater than 4% of your body weight, you need to drink sports drinks. At this time, exercise consumes a lot of water, and substances such as electrolytes, sodium and potassium are also lost in large quantities. Supplementing with sports drinks can help restore body functions.

Fitness is certainly a good thing, but if we don’t pay attention to what happens after fitness, it will cause great damage to our body. Drinking water after fitness is a big deal. I hope you can get inspiration from the above text. Finally, I wish you all a happy fitness.