Drinking water while exercising - now it's bad for you - another study mucks things up.

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  • Go_Mizzou99
    Go_Mizzou99 Posts: 2,628 Member
    pmm3437 wrote: »
    I spent a summer on the Sinai peninsula ( 110+ degrees ) when I was in the US Army. I was an Infantryman, and we trained every day. We did forced hydration 12 hrs a day, 7 days a week. The hottest parts of the day, it was a quart or more of water an hour.

    Drinking that amount of water makes you physically ill ( sick to your stomach ), to the point you have to force yourself to choke it down. And that's not even half of what you would have to consume in order to achieve water intoxication.

    Its just not gonna happen in the gym or on a jog.

    This I do believe...

  • DuckReconMajor
    DuckReconMajor Posts: 434 Member
    pmm3437 wrote: »
    I spent a summer on the Sinai peninsula ( 110+ degrees ) when I was in the US Army. I was an Infantryman, and we trained every day. We did forced hydration 12 hrs a day, 7 days a week. The hottest parts of the day, it was a quart or more of water an hour.

    Drinking that amount of water makes you physically ill ( sick to your stomach ), to the point you have to force yourself to choke it down. And that's not even half of what you would have to consume in order to achieve water intoxication.

    Its just not gonna happen in the gym or on a jog.
    Did you have to use the bathroom constantly or did you sweat it all out?

  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    I have long wondered how all this, "No, no, we can't trust our thirst to guide us!" stuff began. I didn't know people were being told by "experts" they trusted to drink excessive amounts of water.

    Athletes need to be reminded to obey their sense of thirst. They get busy and don't notice it until it's quite strong and then they ignore it, a "playing through the pain" deal. Pay attention to it, but don't second-guess it.

    Some people have medical or psychological conditions that alter their thirst and drinking. They need to learn how to drink the appropriate amounts of water.

    Healthy people with a normal sense of thirst do not need to count glasses of water, check their urine or do anything at all except drink some water when they're thirsty.
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    JoRocka wrote: »
    I read a study once that said 100% of the people who drink water die.

    Link????
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    ceoverturf wrote: »
    JoRocka wrote: »
    I read a study once that said 100% of the people who drink water die.

    Link????
    And was it peer reviewed?

  • DuckReconMajor
    DuckReconMajor Posts: 434 Member
    I have anecdotal evidence if that helps. I drank water and died.
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    DuckReconMajor wrote: »
    I have anecdotal evidence if that helps. I drank water and died.

    Please let us know where to send flowers
  • DuckReconMajor
    DuckReconMajor Posts: 434 Member
    ceoverturf wrote: »
    DuckReconMajor wrote: »
    I have anecdotal evidence if that helps. I drank water and died.

    Please let us know where to send flowers
    Please send them to my ex-wife I have yet to marry, widow, and divorce.
  • fishgutzy
    fishgutzy Posts: 2,807 Member
    Note the use of "excess." I drink a quart of fluid during my 6000 yard swim but still lose about 4 pounds of water weight, ~a half gallon.
  • jmule24
    jmule24 Posts: 1,382 Member
    fishgutzy wrote: »
    Note the use of "excess." I drink a quart of fluid during my 6000 yard swim but still lose about 4 pounds of water weight, ~a half gallon.


    Now, Now you're making some pretty big assumptions here that the majority of people on these forums have something called 'common sense.' I'm still waiting to find out where I can get it, buy it, find it, etc...
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    Water - the new sugar.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    Water - the new sugar.

    I'm addicted and need to detox...perhaps a beer will do the trick.
  • Go_Mizzou99
    Go_Mizzou99 Posts: 2,628 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    Water - the new sugar.

    I'm addicted and need to detox...perhaps a beer will do the trick.

    Beer works - but slowly and mass quantities are needed.
    Bourbon, on the other hand, detoxes much faster.
  • andrikosDE
    andrikosDE Posts: 383 Member
    IsaackGMOON wrote: »
    All the more reason to drink vodka then?

    Weak.
    It still has 60% water...
  • pmm3437
    pmm3437 Posts: 529 Member
    DuckReconMajor wrote: »
    pmm3437 wrote: »
    I spent a summer on the Sinai peninsula ( 110+ degrees ) when I was in the US Army. I was an Infantryman, and we trained every day. We did forced hydration 12 hrs a day, 7 days a week. The hottest parts of the day, it was a quart or more of water an hour.

    Drinking that amount of water makes you physically ill ( sick to your stomach ), to the point you have to force yourself to choke it down. And that's not even half of what you would have to consume in order to achieve water intoxication.

    Its just not gonna happen in the gym or on a jog.
    Did you have to use the bathroom constantly or did you sweat it all out?

    The area is generally a dry heat most of the time ( very low average humidity ), and I don't specifically remember a large increase in trips to the latrine, so I would have to say the majority of the additional hydration was removed exothermically.

    Also of note, we weren't required to take additional supplementation for electrolytes; just ate the typical military mess hall diet - higher calories and typically more fat than the TAD.

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