Dehydration In Athletes

During high endurance training the body will eventually undergo dehydration and will result in the performance of the athlete to decline. Dehydration occurs when the amount of fluid loss exceeds the amount of fluid intake. For athletes, dehydration leaves them at a weaken state; therefore, their performance would decline as they are weakened. When an athlete believes he is dehydrated he may go and drink some fluids, however what he may not realize is that he may make “a mismatch between fluid loss” and fluid intake; also, doesn’t realize other factors that can affect his retention of water such as “gastric emptying, and the false perception of adequate satiation” (a person thinks he is hydrated enough when in actuality he is not) as stated by Nelson and Robergs. The athlete should be well aware that even if he thinks he is hydrated that she should drink a little more fluids or else he will be misjudging himself whether he is dehydrated or not. Keeping hydrated also keeps an athlete from experiencing …show more content…
Whether this method improves performance is still a mystery, however there has been studies to show that glycerol hyperhydration does in fact aid the body in retaining fluids for long periods of exercise. Other methods such as “hyperhydration induced by either a water or carbohydrate electrolyte solution” won’t work because it “is only transient because of the rapid renal clearance of fluid” (Melin et al.). Water and any other fluids that don’t contain glycerol would just pass right on through the system without being absorbed because it won’t be retained it time thanks to the renal response being so rapid. Here I am trying to see if hyperhydrating with glycerol is an effective method to increase exercise performance by being able to retain fluids for longer periods of