Sunday 27 December 2009

Hydrate for a great workout and to Gain an Amazing Muscle Pump

It's well know to hydrate during a workout. How can you maximize this to your advantage?
Have a bath before you workout: this will hydrate you a lot and give you the edge over your competitors in the gym - you'll feel stronger. You can stretch the legs in the bath and they'll suck up more water making you more hydrated. Maximum time in the bath is when you feel water inside your mouth, as if you've just drank water, but in fact this water is coming from your body re-hydrating - now you know it's time to hit the gym.

At the gym always have the water bottle near to hand. I aim for an hours hard workout to drink ½ to 1 litre every 15 minutes.

After workout, stretch and have a shower - you're replacing the water that you've lost. Giving that muscle is a huge percentage water, by not having water available, you're not making muscle but destroying it.

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