147. The Big Hydration Episode, with Sports Scientist Andy Blow

The Strength Running Podcast

Jason Fitzgerald

Health & Fitness, 10k, Beginnerrunning, Marathontraining, Fitness, Injuryprevention, Marathon, Halfmarathon, Running, Sports

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Today's conversation is a long overdue episode on hydration. I'm thrilled to have Andy Blow on to share his expertise.

Andy is a Sports Scientist with a degree from the University of Bath, focusing his expertise on sweat, dehydration and cramping. He's also a former elite level triathlete with numerous Top 10 finishes and an Xterra World title. He's now the CEO of Precision Hydration.

As runners, we're all familiar with cramping, electrolytes, and hydration - but Andy really breaks these down for us. We talk about:

Fluid loss, dehydration, and over-hydration (known as hyponatremia)
Electrolytes
Environmental factors
Determining your sweat rate
What to do if you are a salty sweater

Andy helps us understand how to apply all this in training and in races. And I really appreciate his emphasis on simplifying hydration, depending on the environmental conditions and duration of workouts.

I hope this topic will be as fun for you to learn about as it was for me.

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0:00.0	Ready?
0:02.0	Say, go!
0:04.0	This is episode 147 with former professional triathlete and Exetero World Champ,
0:10.0	advisor to the Porsche Human Performance Center and founder of Precision Hydration, Mr. Andy Blow. Welcome to the Strength Running Podcast. I'm your host Jason Fitzgerald and I'm excited
0:29.0	that you're here. Here on the podcast we give you new ideas, tools, and strategies for improving your running.
0:36.2	Whether you'd like to reach a new distance, qualify for a certain race, or avoid your next injury,
0:41.3	I'll be bringing you the leaders in the fitness industry to help you
0:44.7	reach more of your big running goals. From elite runners, performance psychologists, strength
0:51.0	experts, coaches, best-selling authors and physical therapists who can help make
0:56.1	our running dreams become a reality because as I like to say knowledge is a competitive
1:01.8	advantage the more you know the better decisions you'll make about your training.
1:06.0	If you're new to the show, we have 146 other episodes, a video channel on YouTube or our home base strength running.com where you can see all of our
1:15.9	coaching programs detailed guides on everything from injury prevention to running for
1:20.7	beginners to how you can master your mindset and become a more mentally tough runner.
1:26.0	I'd also like to thank Naked Nutrition for sponsoring today's episode.
1:30.0	I've been using their vanilla way protein protein powder recently and this is hands down the best protein powder I've ever had is from grass-fed cows
1:38.7	There's nothing artificial in it and the flavored protein powders have only three ingredients. You can check
1:45.0	them out at nkd nutrition.com and if you're vegan they have a pea protein supplement as well.
1:52.4	Our guest today is Andy Blow, the founder and
1:54.9	CEO of Precision Hydration. Andy is a sports scientist with a degree from the
1:59.5	University of Bath focusing his expertise on sweat, dehydration, and cramping.
2:05.0	And he previously worked as the team sports scientist for the Benetton and Renault Formula One teams
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