Hi everybody. Welcome to you today's episode of The Run to the Top Etchter Kick Daily Podcast. I am your host, one of the coaches here

at Rolus Connect, Haley Mung, and it is fantastic to talk to you guys today.

Cool, I hope you're it to talk to you guys today.

Cool, I hope you're having a good one. Hope the weather is nice where you are.

It's definitely nice here in the UK.

Lovely to get out for long-ish probably a long for me given that I'm still

coming back from quite a bad injury a long-ish run with my dog so yeah it's all good so on to today's show what I want to talk

about today is electrolyte drinks drinks with added electrolytes or those electrolyte tablets that you can add to your drinks.

And there's quite a few advertised products that claim to give you the electrolytes that you need and it can be hard to know what it is that you

actually need and what is just being pushed to you to sell something. You may ask if you need these electroly drinks or tablets or whether drinking plain water is just fine.

And the answer is somewhere in the middle. We definitely do need electrolytes, but whether we get what we need from the diet or

whether we need to supplement depends very much on the individual and the

training they're doing and and the weather so if you're doing a short to medium-length run on a cool day, water is

most likely just fine. However, if you're running a marathon on a hot and humid day,

you probably would benefit from an electrolyte drink or tablet. This is especially true of your

salty sweater. So let's talk about electrolyte. There are several that our body

needs to function, but the ones that are most important for hydration and fluid balance are sodium, potassium,

magnesium and calcium.

And why do we need our electrolytes to be in balance?

Well, if your electrolytes aren't in balance

so you don't have the ones you need in the right quantities,

you're likely to suffer from premature muscle fatigue

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