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I play football and our spring camp / practice is going on rn. I’ve drank 3 gal of water in the past 2 days and 2 pedialytes and my piss is still like yellow (not light yellow). Also cramping up like crazy and headaches. This is my second year on varsity doing this camp and this has never happened before and I’m not sure why I’m dehydrated if I’m drinking enough water. Or am I doing something wrong
I drink a gallon a day just doing dirt work. I used to play and I would drink way less than that but practice was only 4days a week. I stopped playing in 9th grade so I still looked up to the varsity but as far as I could tell they weren't even drinking that much.
1 if you have filtered water make sure it's not reverse osmosis that your drinking all the time. Reverse osmosis filters to much of the water and takes some of the minerals out so it slowly dehidrates you.
If anyone knows much about lake superior thay know that it has veins of hollow bedrock that shoots out of the bottom of the lake in all directions and when we drilled our well we went 185ft down and the last 30ft were iron and bedrock. From superior. So I learned the hard way.
3 two much water and you will constantly feel thirsty so drink something dehydrating like coke or something before you drink a ton of water.
The cool thing is our well was pressurized. As soon as we were through water shot out the hole and we only had to put pipe in 100ft because it shoots straight up the hole
Lippmani"... because it shoots straight up the hole"....pure NS
LippamaniThe cool thing is our well was pressurized. As soon as we were through water shot out the hole and we only had to put pipe in 100ft because it shoots straight up the hole
Your piss is yellow bc of the electrolytes not from dehydration, your pissing out unabsorbed nutrients
if anything your possibly over hydrated, causing you to piss more and not absorb, if you are a “high salt sweater” have a fucking tsp of salt with water once or twice and ditch that garbage your drinking.
Lippamani1 if you have filtered water make sure it's not reverse osmosis that your drinking all the time. Reverse osmosis filters to much of the water and takes some of the minerals out so it slowly dehidrates you.
There’s actually a lot behind that, as far as “not hydrating” but as far as being “dehydrating” that it is not.
This is because you don’t have to get your electrolytes from water, as long as you have them, and don’t “over flood “ yourself causing you to piss out your electrolytes your fine.
SavageBiffThere’s actually a lot behind that, as far as “not hydrating” but as far as being “dehydrating” that it is not.
This is because you don’t have to get your electrolytes from water, as long as you have them, and don’t “over flood “ yourself causing you to piss out your electrolytes your fine.
i mean if you're sweating out a half gal of water working outside or playing football, you should probably consider an electrolyte drink with your water.
Otherwise, reverse osmosis water is just as effective as regular water to hydrate the average person, saying it dehydrates you is completely false.
i played d1 football for a few years what you need in your day is ~4.5L (about a gallon) of tap water 💧 2 energy drinks (tall cans) to keep your mind and body on its toes and at least 6 light beers per nights to relax cause sports are tough and then drink another litre of water through the night 💧
then once or twice a week it's not a bad idea to recycle your piss too cause it's good for your system just no more than 4-5 times a week
Something to remember is that your body can only absorb one liter per hour so you should sip it gradually. If you just chug a full nalgene in ten minutes your body will only absorb a quarter of it and you'll still be dehydrated. In general if you sip one liter between 6Pm and 7Pm and then another one between 7 and 8 then you'll be fully replenished.
SchizoSkierI play football and our spring camp / practice is going on rn. I’ve drank 3 gal of water in the past 2 days and 2 pedialytes and my piss is still like yellow (not light yellow). Also cramping up like crazy and headaches. This is my second year on varsity doing this camp and this has never happened before and I’m not sure why I’m dehydrated if I’m drinking enough water. Or am I doing something wrong
You're not drinking enough water from all sources. The daily requirement for men is 124oz (0.97 gallons) as a baseline. Pedialyte, assuming you bought the standard size, is 1L (33.8oz). So all that together you drank 451.6oz in 2 days (obviously you get additional water through food but let's forget that for simplicity).
452-124x2= 210 additional ounces over daily requirement
210/2 days= 105 additional ounces per day
If you're an adolescent then this requirement will drop slightly but you're still gonna be losing a fuck ton in exercise.
While an extra 105 ounces (3.1L) a day may seem like a lot, it really isn't. Since you're playing sports, especially high intensity ones that you lose a fuck ton of water from such as football, it's easily plausible to assume you're not hydrated enough based on what you describe. Headaches, cramps are signs of dehydration.
If you were doing two a days or exercising very vigorously then urine discoloration could be more ominous- rhabdo. Unlikely though as you'd have coke colored urine, muscle pain/aches, and lower back pain among other stuff.
SavageBiffYour piss is yellow bc of the electrolytes not from dehydration, your pissing out unabsorbed nutrients
if anything your possibly over hydrated, causing you to piss more and not absorb, if you are a “high salt sweater” have a fucking tsp of salt with water once or twice and ditch that garbage your drinking.
Sorry to contradict you and be a know it all but electrolytes (sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, etc.) are all clear. Now if op is taking one of those fitness multivitamins with a fuck ton of riboflavin, then that'll turn your piss a funky color. Maybe that's what you're getting at? Certain meds and foods change piss color too.
The second part of your paragraph is also not true. Piss comes from your blood. It's all the excess water and solutes and metabolites your body doesn't need. Your kidneys serve to metabolize stuff as well as regulate concentration of urine. If you're dehydrated, your kidneys will reabsorb more water in their tubules and hence your piss is darker and has a higher concentration of solutes. If you're drinking a fuck ton of water and have an excess of fluid ("over hydrated"), the kidneys will begin to excrete more dilute urine as they are reabsorbing less water, and hence your urine looks clearer. Urine color is yellow due to urobilin which is a byproduct of hemoglobin; this appearance of color changes based on how much water your kidneys put out affecting solubility (imagine mixing orange juice and water; more water=lighter color).
Now the ability to concentrate urine also can differ with certain diseases but op wouldn't be playing football if he had one of those. The piss color still holds true.
Lippamani1 if you have filtered water make sure it's not reverse osmosis that your drinking all the time. Reverse osmosis filters to much of the water and takes some of the minerals out so it slowly dehidrates you.
3 two much water and you will constantly feel thirsty so drink something dehydrating like coke or something before you drink a ton of water.
False
SavageBiffThere’s actually a lot behind that, as far as “not hydrating” but as far as being “dehydrating” that it is not.
This is because you don’t have to get your electrolytes from water, as long as you have them, and don’t “over flood “ yourself causing you to piss out your electrolytes your fine.
False
eheathi mean if you're sweating out a half gal of water working outside or playing football, you should probably consider an electrolyte drink with your water.
Otherwise, reverse osmosis water is just as effective as regular water to hydrate the average person, saying it dehydrates you is completely false.
True
AndrewGravesSVSomething to remember is that your body can only absorb one liter per hour so you should sip it gradually. If you just chug a full nalgene in ten minutes your body will only absorb a quarter of it and you'll still be dehydrated. In general if you sip one liter between 6Pm and 7Pm and then another one between 7 and 8 then you'll be fully replenished.
False
Icant_kfedWhat was the oxygen-hydrogen ratio of the water because if it’s not right you won’t be hydrated from it
This is funny but considering the sheer stupidity in this thread, gonna mark as....
No need to be sorry this is perfect, what you said was accurate, the point is to get valuable free info out to help people that want help.
Regarding the fat soluble vitamins, or electrolytes coloring piss no I didn’t mean that was the cause, I simply assumed he was taking a multi vitamin or pre workout containing a bunch of excess crap.
The overhydrating causing yellow urine was poorly worded, if you overhydrate, you for a time will piss out your b vitamins etc, hence yellow pee, usually more neon than dark yellow or brownish, and then too much water will keep you from absorbing your salt, and other vitamins, our bodies do a really good job of balancing, but flooding yourself is bad, staying hydrated is good.
Turd__AuthorityYou're not drinking enough water from all sources. The daily requirement for men is 124oz (0.97 gallons) as a baseline. Pedialyte, assuming you bought the standard size, is 1L (33.8oz). So all that together you drank 451.6oz in 2 days (obviously you get additional water through food but let's forget that for simplicity).
452-124x2= 210 additional ounces over daily requirement
210/2 days= 105 additional ounces per day
If you're an adolescent then this requirement will drop slightly but you're still gonna be losing a fuck ton in exercise.
While an extra 105 ounces (3.1L) a day may seem like a lot, it really isn't. Since you're playing sports, especially high intensity ones that you lose a fuck ton of water from such as football, it's easily plausible to assume you're not hydrated enough based on what you describe. Headaches, cramps are signs of dehydration.
If you were doing two a days or exercising very vigorously then urine discoloration could be more ominous- rhabdo. Unlikely though as you'd have coke colored urine, muscle pain/aches, and lower back pain among other stuff.
Sorry to contradict you and be a know it all but electrolytes (sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, etc.) are all clear. Now if op is taking one of those fitness multivitamins with a fuck ton of riboflavin, then that'll turn your piss a funky color. Maybe that's what you're getting at? Certain meds and foods change piss color too.
The second part of your paragraph is also not true. Piss comes from your blood. It's all the excess water and solutes and metabolites your body doesn't need. Your kidneys serve to metabolize stuff as well as regulate concentration of urine. If you're dehydrated, your kidneys will reabsorb more water in their tubules and hence your piss is darker and has a higher concentration of solutes. If you're drinking a fuck ton of water and have an excess of fluid ("over hydrated"), the kidneys will begin to excrete more dilute urine as they are reabsorbing less water, and hence your urine looks clearer. Urine color is yellow due to urobilin which is a byproduct of hemoglobin; this appearance of color changes based on how much water your kidneys put out affecting solubility (imagine mixing orange juice and water; more water=lighter color).
Now the ability to concentrate urine also can differ with certain diseases but op wouldn't be playing football if he had one of those. The piss color still holds true.
I didn’t mention that if you’re doing physical exercise that you should drink water while you do it but figured that was obvious lol. If you’re sweating buckets you need to drink more but other than that everything I said was still true
AndrewGravesSVI didn’t mention that if you’re doing physical exercise that you should drink water while you do it but figured that was obvious lol. If you’re sweating buckets you need to drink more but other than that everything I said was still true
I was referring to your water absorption rate statement.
AndrewGravesSVIdk about that then chief! Seems like a broad and consistent consensus to me after a bit of googling
**This post was edited on May 28th 2022 at 7:24:37pm
All good. Not everyone has the skills to evaluate the credibility of sources and that's not a slight against you by any means, just true, and why misinformation is so bad on the internet. If you Google that statement you said, it comes from a really sketch website that's not credible and has no references.
theabortionatorThe internet, where even a discussion about drinking water will turn into a shit show of "facts"
Making NS smarter every day. Also I'm like a crackhead to arguing and can't stand when nonsense is posted with conviction from people being actually serious.
Um, how come nobody talked about electrolyte replenishment? Electrolytes is a metobolic term for salt, the very same sodium chloride we learned to love. Potassium is the other one we need for correct muscle function. Have too high or too low of these will lead to muscle cramping and all that beautiful stuff.
How is electrolytes lost? Consumption from the body is one, but sweating is the big one in OPs case. When you sweat, your body lets past water through the skin so that it can evaporate and cool you down. Sweat isnt just water, its salts. Ever noticed after working up a crazy sweat that permeates the Tshirt, then take it off and let it dry; that a salt film will form in the inner folds. Yeah, salt!
So the idea of rehydrating with water is great for lower intensity activites. Water has enough disolved solids to keep the right electrolyte balance. But in super intensive activities, water wont have enough salts to replenish your electrolyte loss. So energy drinks were invented for that!
So cramping is both a loss of water, but also electrolytes. Make sure to eat well after the session!
