ice water

jenn50

ok so drinking water is good for you, Drinking ice water burns calories. Question 1. how do you know how many calories you are buring drinking ice water? Question 2. is drinking ice water bad during workouts?

NoAdditives

Drinking ice water doesn't burn enough calories to track. It's not good to drink ice water during workouts. I'm not totally sure why, but I know it will give you some major stomach cramps. It think the big problem is because the ice water makes your stomach and digestive system very cold, so it needs to pull more blood away from other areas of the body in order to heat back up.

rrjs

Drinking ice water doesn't burn enough calories to really count.

http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/diet-fitness/weight-loss/question447.htm

Even in that article, they're assuming your gender, height, and weight and it's not particularly accurate.

jenn50

i know its not enough to count. if it was we would all be drinking ice water. i have heard it slows metabolism down if you drink ice water during a workout

nehtaeh

I only really like my water ice cold. That's what I drink during a workout as well, but not a lot of it. I just take a few drinks as needed, then after is when I drink most of the water. I've never had an adverse reaction to it being cold.

Sprinkles77

I love cold water but while I am working out I drink room temperature water, it still satisfies and cools me off and after I drink cold water. I do it this way because I wast told that drinking cold water during workouts makes your body expend some of the energy it would normally used to burn fat/calories on warming up the water instead. And while I am working out I need all the energy I can get.