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Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

How Does Hydration Work?

Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Singletracks.com

Sports, Wilderness

4.7574 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Singletracks podcast, Aaron and I talk about some of the science behind sports drinks and hydration for mountain biking. Since we’re neither doctors nor experts on hydration, we talk about the history of electrolyte-based sports drinks and give an overview of some of the research that’s out there on the subject. We also talk about our own, non-scientific sports drink taste test results.

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Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Jeff and today Aaron and I are going to be

0:36.3

talking about hydration for mountain biking.

0:39.9

So before we get started in this conversation, we should note that neither of us are experts

0:45.4

on hydration or nutrition or any of that kind of stuff. But what we have done is we've done a little

0:52.1

bit of research and there's a lot of conflicting information out there. And so we're going to try to at least wait've done a little bit of research and there's a lot of conflicting

0:54.3

information out there. And so we're going to try to at least wade through it a little bit and

0:59.0

maybe provide some different viewpoints and different data about how hydration works for

1:05.9

mountain biking. So we're going to be talking a lot about sports drinks and things that you can drink, obviously,

1:12.7

while you're on the mountain bike trail. So I want to start off by asking, why can't you just drink water on your mountain bike rides?

1:20.6

Well, you can just drink water. But if you're, you know, you're out for a long ride or a very strenuous ride, you're going to be losing electrolytes.

1:29.9

So mainly that would be, I guess, sodium and potassium.

1:34.5

So you need to replace those things.

1:36.1

Otherwise, it can lead to muscle cramps.

1:39.6

And for any of you that have had a bad muscle cramp, you know how bad that can hurt and it can, you know, it can make you stop riding and just lay on the ground, rive and pain.

1:51.6

I've been there many times.

1:53.5

Me too.

1:55.0

Yes, so another thing that, you know, most people are concerned with being dehydrated and losing too much water.

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