keeping hydrated during a session

Man, I am ALWAYS dehydrated. Its weird. I will drink a whole gatorade before a session, and I am still out there hacking up flem and spitting from having a dry mouth. I even try and drink like 6-7 glasses of water while im at work each day, but then I just piss all the time. And the next morning, I am still dehydrated. It is bad, but I dont let it stop me. I surf everyday, usually between 1-2 hours and every single day I am dehydrated. I drinks about 2-3 large gatorades per day... They weather where I live is hot and dry, but not that bad.

I also drink quite frequently. So, most nights I am having glasses of wine of some beers before bed, and then I wake up with a completely dehyrdated body. You let me know if you figure this one out, because it has been years since I have been hydrated properly on a regular basis. But ohh well. I still go out every day and evaporate what little moisture I have left in my body....

I have been trying to get my sh** hydrated for years... I think it has to do with the dry heat out here and allergies that I developed on the west coast. Never had an allergy once in my life till I moved out here. Now every few months, my whole nasal system gets all jacked up and flemmy.... who knows... But let me know if you find out a good solution....

Im guessing it takes weeks of hydrating day after day after day so that your body becomes accustomed to it. I am just all over the place though... I blame it on the adhd =)

 

Dude, just drink the water you're surfing in. It's water.

 

Nothings worse than being real thirsty with dry mouth and having that salty taste. That sucks !

 

When you are working out and need something to drink before after or during your workout don't drink ice cold fluids. Drinking fluids that are slightly cooler then room temp is the way to go. It takes less time and energy for your body to absorb the liquid. Also stay away from the gatorades and stick to water all that high fructose corn syrup isn't good for anything. The main goal is to have 54oz of water per day. Depending on your body type you may need more than that.

 

You get thirstier faster surfing because of osmosis through the skin. Salt water submersion, from what I understand, causes gradual loss of water through the skin as the skin pumps water outward, trying to equalize the salinity on both sides of the semi-permiable membrane that is your skin.

DON'T drink ocean water if you're thirsty. Your kidneys will work harder trying to eliminate the excess salt from your body, while every cell in your body does the same thing... squeeze out water to eliminate the excess salt. This just makes you dehydrated faster.

 

Did you really need to say this? Really? Really. Really?

 

I just drink a bottle or water before I go in and one when I get out and I am good. I hate not having anything to drink after I get done surfing even more so in the summer

 

you crazy noobs,

just chew 2 pieces of gum while you are out in the water. works everytime. 2 glasses of h2o before your session / 2 pieces of gum during / 2 glass of h2o after = solid hyrdration.

 

I've been doing that for 20 years- only problem is I put it through the coffee maker first

 

lol yeah definitely and then you can just dehydrate even more from the salt water you just drank!!!!

 

wtf?...this has gotta be one of the dumbest threads.

 

let's also not forget that salt water will give a person diarrhea if they drink it when dehydrated

 

you crazy noobs,

just chew 2 pieces of gum while you are out in the water. works everytime. 2 glasses of h2o before your session / 2 pieces of gum during / 2 glass of h2o after = solid hyrdration.

superfish is right on. this works like a champ. the only question now is: how can i avoid being overweight 'cause i love to hit a post-session breakfast buffet? what is it about how surfing turbocharges the appetite?

 

when you drink gatorade you're supposed to have water with it otherwise you'll get dehydrated, so if you have a 20 oz bottle of gatorade, you need should drink around 20 oz of water

 

Im going to say watch the diet too.Especially foods with sodium.

 

Haha. For sure. I take my black lab down to dog beach all the time. Every time this dude gets in the water, he gets out like a minute later, blows saltwater out of his as$ at like 200MPH and then runs back in with the other dogs. Very embarassing. What are you gonna do. My dog doesnt understand that salt water is salt water. He just sees the worlds largest bowl of water. Awesome

 

I did not know that. They watered down our gatorade at Towson when I played soccer, but I have bever been told to drink both. Renders gatorade pretty useless. Good to know though. I tried to switch to powdered gatorade so I wasnt going through 5 plastic bottles per day, but all I can find is that damn lime green gatorade in the powder. Had a really bad drinking experience in mexico and drank lime gatorade afterwords trying to hyrdate and I would just puke up the gatorade in an almost foam form. I cant even look at the lime kind now and it is 6 years later... ewwww.

Point being, that is you mix the powder, than you can make like a 3 part water, one part gatorade that would probably have the same effect, right?