Water consumption during a workout.............

[SgtSlaughter]

^^^

Great Bro.

 

[Ghede]

Thanks Bunny....did not at all mean you were coming off as bitchy. Meant my post in sincerity.

I guess I can explain my stance on things like this...I have been in this game for well over 30 yrs. Have seen tons of "the latest and greatest" come and go. My goal is to try to educate the best I can.

The more I "learn", the more I realize what worked in the beginning still works. The more I revert back to what I learnd in my old black iron gym long before the days of the super gyms and tons of machines and cardio equipment.

Bodybuilders are notorious at micromanaging every little thing, we think if we are not miserable, it can't be working. Somehow our sport has turned into some kind of psuedo science. I think old man Vince Giranda when asked the best thing to build muscle replied simply...pick up heavy things, put them down, repeat.

Simply work out, eat, rest, repeat. Making yourself miserable with micromanaging is truly unecessary. Does it work? Sure it does. But despite all these supplement companies sponsoring supplements touting "break through your genetic potential", in reality we are all limited by this "X" factor. Metabolism(yes, there is a gene that determines metabolism, your genes are what in the end are what controls your metabolism in your cells), muscle gain, all of it has that wild card that we have to deal with. Everything you do "turns on" a gene. For example weight training turns on genes that signal protein syntheseis. Endurance training turns on genes that signal the body to make more mitochondria, increase aerobic energy enzymes. But even this has only a certain effect on these genes.


I am rambling here, but just want to say to be smart about things, there is no need to watch the clock for 1 minute past a scheduled meal and you will lose mass, or having a protein shake within 3.7 minutes of your workout or all gains will be nullified. The nonsense that goes around these boards and lack of common sense is what drives me.

Lifter: you and i have waxed poetic on a dozen if not a dozen dozen occastions about the overt need for simplicity to be mystified: macro breakdowns, protein grams/bodypound, nutrient timing, hyper hydration, over complication of training form/function, and the list goes on.

I do and will maintain that your attitude about keeping things unclouded and intuitive is the main path to physique success and that when the smoke and marketing gobbledy gook clears this entire sport and most sporting effort on a whole is based upon, and i paraphrase us both and others to simplify the matter:

plan the effort, feed the effort, make the effort and recover from the effort. repeat.

One of my favorite lines, and i use it daily, 'Gee, XXXX, how much do you lift/how far can you go/how fast can you move?'

'Well, Zorba, a little more than yesterday, a little less than tomorow.'

 

[maccer]

lifter your posts are excellent, sort of come off like Nelson Montana but chilled out!! you make people think but are not too controversial unlike NM

 

[John WB]

Question... why? How many hous do you train?!


Lets say you are consuming 8l a day, thats a good number for the 100kg male.

If you are doing resistance training for more than a solid hour of activity, you are futzing around, but lets say you are at the gym for two hours (where folks get this kinda time, only Jah knows)

Thats a liter an hour of your day. That would put your consumption at about 18 liters a day. Not.

I dont know why folks overhydrate while training. That is to say, 'Whats the benefit?'

Said it before, will say it again, if you weigh MORE after your workout than before, you are doing your efficiency and ability to use the nutrients you possess on hand a serious disservice.


If you have a solid reason 'WHY', i am all ears. If the reason is " well... 'cause i feel like it.' then thats cool, too, i guess, but not all that solid when it comes to trying to work smarter rather than harder.

Not sweating you per se, (pardon the pun), just wondering across the board.

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No reasons. I just get thirsty when I'm sweating and working out lot like that.

I drink 1L through the workout and any remainder while I do cardio and drink a refill on the way home and with my post workout meal.