Do you drink anything while shooting?
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- The Armory
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What I dont get is the additional sodium additives in drinks. 99.9% of Americans that eat the standard american diet are WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY over their recommended sodium intake just from eating what they consider a plain breakfast (that alone does it) lunch, and dinner. There's no way unless you're REALLY pushing yourself super hard in the SW heat all day long, should you ever be low on sodium at any one point in the day. Just a normal lunch with whatever water you would drink to replace the water you lost should do it 99% of the time. My wife had a lifting coach last year, and she had to track EVERY bit of everything she took in, and we started counting how much sodium was in shit, and man, you'd be surprised. After you read EVERY label on EVERYthing you eat, and add it up, you'll see things you havent in the past. It would surprise you.
When I was really deep into competitive cycling, gatorade was a big thing, but after a few years it came out that even gatorade had too much sodium and sugar, and that you were over doing it if you drank it all day during a race or tour, unless you were sweating profusely all day in 98 degree heat in a black wool jersey. That shit was originally formulated (they say anyhow) for the football teams practicing hard in the florida heat. Was never meant for standard issue civilians during casual sweating. The recommendation was to cut it 50/50 with water to make it better for you as some people dont do well taking in that much sugar in the heat either. It sounded right to us at the time anyways.
When I was really deep into competitive cycling, gatorade was a big thing, but after a few years it came out that even gatorade had too much sodium and sugar, and that you were over doing it if you drank it all day during a race or tour, unless you were sweating profusely all day in 98 degree heat in a black wool jersey. That shit was originally formulated (they say anyhow) for the football teams practicing hard in the florida heat. Was never meant for standard issue civilians during casual sweating. The recommendation was to cut it 50/50 with water to make it better for you as some people dont do well taking in that much sugar in the heat either. It sounded right to us at the time anyways.