hazards of overhydration

[wayno]

interview with top south african sports physiologist and ultra marathon runner Dr tim noakes on how sports people end up drinking too much and the dangers of over drinking in exercise.

http://www.outsideonline.com/blog/tim-noakes-on-the-serious-problem-of-overhydration-in-endurance-sports.html

[Strider]

My biggest problem is needing to pee too often!

[hikingoz]

Cheers wayno. It was an interesting article.

Drinking water too fast, or water that is too cold, (as well as too much) can definately be a bad thing during hard work in my experience.

[wayno]

apparently its a bigger problem for people who arent heat aclimatised,
a study done on soldiers in the middle east made to do physical labour in the sun, showed soldiers who had been stationed there for some time were able to sweat twice as much as soldiers who were brought out from a british winter, the aclimatised solidiers had a more well developed sense of thirst, possibly to do with their greater rate of sweat... their heat exhaustion rate was a lot less....
friend of mine working outdoors inland in victoria regularly goes through five litres a day in summer no problems, probably because he's aclimatised

[Son of a Beach]

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