Do you drink water (or something else) during a swimming workout? If yes, during what kind of workouts (easy sets, sprint sets, long or short cruises, etc.)? Water polo players and young swimmers (in my local pool) do not drink anything during a workout. What are your experiences about this subject?
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Usually nothing during practice but I have lots of my beloved bad dehydrating caffeine drinks from when I leave the house until I get to the pool. Our workouts are pretty short, about an hour. Usually our pool temps are a comfy 80F. I'm in the beginner lane since I'm slow, so I end up doing short distance, long rest intervals, mostly drilling and getting stuck behind people who don't get it that you're supposed to leave on the interval or motion the person behind you to go ahead. So I don't think I'm working up much of a sweat nor having the kidneys go into overdrive.
I do end up swallowing some pool water, not by choice. I am sure it has not only the H's and O's but also a few yellow electrolytes that I'd rather not think too hard about.
Once or twice I have tried to swim a bit after a happy hour. Wow. Even though I thought I was "fine" with gross motor skills intact, my freestyle stunk, couldn't get aligned and all I felt was turbulence and slippage. I even had a dream about that once. The coach was staring at me flopping around and after a few repeats, stopped me and said, "You know, you might have an easier go of it if you weren't holding on to your beer can while you tried to swim."
Usually nothing during practice but I have lots of my beloved bad dehydrating caffeine drinks from when I leave the house until I get to the pool. Our workouts are pretty short, about an hour. Usually our pool temps are a comfy 80F. I'm in the beginner lane since I'm slow, so I end up doing short distance, long rest intervals, mostly drilling and getting stuck behind people who don't get it that you're supposed to leave on the interval or motion the person behind you to go ahead. So I don't think I'm working up much of a sweat nor having the kidneys go into overdrive.
I do end up swallowing some pool water, not by choice. I am sure it has not only the H's and O's but also a few yellow electrolytes that I'd rather not think too hard about.
Once or twice I have tried to swim a bit after a happy hour. Wow. Even though I thought I was "fine" with gross motor skills intact, my freestyle stunk, couldn't get aligned and all I felt was turbulence and slippage. I even had a dream about that once. The coach was staring at me flopping around and after a few repeats, stopped me and said, "You know, you might have an easier go of it if you weren't holding on to your beer can while you tried to swim."
