Dehydration and cycling

Sweating is the body's reaction to his attempt to maintain a constant temperature when you ride a bicycle. Is a healthy reaction of the body when exercised, shows no loss of liquid (water) from the body. Painful exercise and simultaneous large loss of fluids can cause dehydration and eventually heat stroke with tragic results, dangerous health effects for cyclist - athlete.

Dehydration reduces the volume of blood transferred to the human body so can΄t easily adjust the temperature of the cyclist and thus needs more effort. It also increases viscosity of the blood that is liquid thicker resulting difficulty move it as already mentioned and finally fatigue the cyclist. The results that dehydration is always low performance of a rider and grow exponentially. The greater period of training is done especially if the limits both increasing fatigue.

The question then is what quantity should consume a cyclist in liquids. Proper weighing before and after workout can help us to draw some conclusions. If therefore the result of weighing show weight gain, this means that cyclist consumed larger amounts of food and liquid than it should. The opposite, is true if in the weighing found to have significantly reduced weight.

   If your workout lasts up to one hour then you don΄t need to add anything for instance electrolytes because only water is necessary. A consumption in this case a ratio of 90ml per 13 minutes is satisfactory. If, however, the duration of training exceeds 1½ then be made for food and liquids as well as adding electrolytes in water.