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What You’re Getting Wrong About Hydration (Lab Test Results!)
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What You’re Getting Wrong About Hydration (Lab Test Results!)
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Are we hydrating properly? Tom and Sarah put their bodies to the test to uncover the truth about hydration and reveal what many runners might be getting wrong.
Supported by SiS, we’ve come to Loughborough University where Tom and Sarah take on a brutal sweat test in an environmental chamber to measure how much they sweat, to look at how dehydrated we get when we’re running, how much sodium we lose when we run, how it might impact your performance and what you should do (or not do) about it. And ultimately answer the question of when do we actually need electrolytes?
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What’s in this video?
00:00 - Are Electrolytes worth it? 00:29 - How the sweat test works
02:18 - The test at optimum temperature
03:35 - How to calculate your sweat loss
04:13 - How the test felt
4:59 - The results at optimum temperature
06:29 - The sweat test at 25 c
08:12 - The effect of running in the heat
10:15 - The results
11:05 - Hydration advice
12:30 - Can electrolytes help?
12:52 - When are electrolytes useful?
13:50 - Risks of electrolyte tablets
14:23 - How keeping hydrated improves running
15:32 - Be mindful when hydrating
15:49 - Do we actually need electrolytes?
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