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Water and its importance
When you become dehydrated even slightly, your body fights back slowing down the elimination of water. In the event that this occurs, you retain excess amounts of water. A restriction of fluids virtually stimulates your body to retain more water.
As an athlete, water helps you recover from your workouts, aids in fat based fueling of muscles and provides storage of water inside your cells. When you become dehydrated all of these functions reduce their effectiveness and your performance levels lower.
Water contributes to energy storage by being stored along side glycogen stores. If you do not drink enough water to facilitate this extra glucose remains in your blood stream until it reaches your liver. Then the glucose is stored as fat. Think of this you can actually get fatter when you do not consume adequate amounts of water.
If you are a dieting athlete, drink plenty of water so your liver can effectively metabolize body fat. And when you are carbohydrate loading, drink water often so glucose can be stored as glycogen.
The importance of water is unquestionable, especially for athletes. As the major ingredient of the human body, plenty of water is essential to healthy and qualitative athletic performance. And although other drinks like milk, sugared soft drinks and fruit juices are thirst quenchers; they actually increase your need for water.
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