important things

[mizkit]

Important things I have learned this morning:

1. It is all well and good to get up and bike to the gym. However, it is necessary to bring some kind of sustenance (ie, an apple) and eat it after swimming but before biking home again. Otherwise by the time I arrive home, I will be light-headed and nauseous from the dramatic inverse of energy expended

Comments

[nojay]

If you're exercising to build muscle, a good after-snack is a banana. They have lots of potassium to replace the losses from sweating.

[mizkit]

Sadly, I loathe bananas. Possibly I should eat a baked potato in the morning... :)

[jeditigger]

You're in Ireland. Isn't that all you guys eat anyways? :-D

The dried fruit and nuts is a great idea, though if you're perspiring having salted nuts isn't that bad.

[anthony_lion]

Salted nuts is a big NO when exercising.

The salt binds the liquid in your body, but not always whee you want it. It also dries out your mouth, making you feel thirstier than you realy are, so you don't drink the right amount when you need it.

Instead, use an isotonic sports drink when replenishing liquids.
(They contains different salts that helps your body absorb water more efficiently. )

Edit: just forgot to mention that sports drinks could also be labelled 'tooth rot in a bottle' so it's nothing you'd want to sip all day long.

[tersa]

Mmmmm, baked potato. :)

Although my trick to get the extra potassium is simply to take a potassium tablet about half an hour before swimming and then a multivitamin (which contaisn more potassium) about an hour later, with breakfast.