Liquids lost swimming in hot water distance swim?

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swimflyfast — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:08:28 GMT

Lost liquids not sweet... I am working on an online form for people to fill out after swims. I hope others will take a scale to open water races. Will post it's location here soon.

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ViveBene — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:37:37 GMT

How can you possibly measure amount of sweat produced during swimming? Per Wikipedia, which knows everything and then some, most fluid losses in humans occur in form of urine. Some is lost through sweat, some is lost through respiration (in form of water vapor), and a couple of other excretory forms also contribute minor amounts to fluid outgo. :) Wii breaks ... Call home, ET!

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Former Member — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:28:25 GMT

Into Chris Greene Lake weighing 187. Out of Chris Greene Lake 46 and 1/2 minutes later weighing 182. Five pints of Virginia "sweet tea" later weighing 187. For some reason, my body has suddenly decided it wants me pleasingly plump. Oh, hell. Who am I kidding. I have joined the ranks of America's morbidly obese. National Runner-Up in the 2-mile Cable Swim, and pound for pound, probably the fastest in my age group. How many wee breaks?

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Bobinator — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:52:03 GMT

Jim you are not a bit obese!! How did you ever find a scale at the finish of an ow swim?

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jim thornton — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:10:53 GMT

These are the kind of nerd experiments I like. They're even better when you go ahead and ferment the sugar to reduce the specific gravity back down to 1. Ferment it too far, and my understanding is that you can get the specific gravity back down under 1.0. I did an article on motion sickness once, and I asked one of the experts at the Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Laboratory at Brandeis University why the room seems to spin when you have hog wimperingly intense case of inebriation. He said that alcohol has slightly less density than water, and if you drink enough, your blood actually becomes a tiny bit lighter than normal, which has the effect of floating these little hair-like danglers within your vestibular system, triggering a sense of motion when you are, in fact, motionless on the bathroom tiles, awaiting your inevitable, revolting penance.

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srcoyote — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:06:52 GMT

Into Chris Greene Lake weighing 187. Out of Chris Greene Lake 46 and 1/2 minutes later weighing 182. Five pints of Virginia "sweet tea" later weighing 187. As a homebrewer I must chime in. If by sweet tea, you mean your typical Southern brew of sugared tea, 5 pints would have left you somewhere in the neighborhood of 187.3 pounds. Water, by definition has a specific gravity of 1. Add enough sugar to make it sweet tea, and we're closer to a specific gravity of 1.06 (or possibly more). These are the kind of nerd experiments I like. They're even better when you go ahead and ferment the sugar to reduce the specific gravity back down to 1.

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jim thornton — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:59:32 GMT

Charlie Tupitza brought his bathroom scale for purposes of a quasi scientific experiment. I applaud his efforts! There is nowhere near enough quasi science in this world! Real science, yes. Pseudo science, yes to that too. But amateur quasi science that might be somewhat illuminating? Not nearly enough!

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jim thornton — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:09:58 GMT

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Former Member — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:47:33 GMT

a pint isn't a pint around the world... :) i have heard the pint in the english pub is getting smaller as we speak... we should have a pint and drink... think on it. True...the english pint is 20oz or 568ml. They tried to metricate it down to 500ml....very unpopular. Mines a cider :D

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swimflyfast — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:50:24 GMT

Yes to having a pint. We are about to have a week with two days of 100 degree temps and the rest 95ish At what temp does it become dangerous to whom? Keep in mind 2 miles swimming at 10:30am I have swum Alkatraz several times and discovered that drinking Luke warm liquids instead of warm worked better. Taking cloths off several min before race to acclimate to air temp helped. Ear plugs double capping. But that's for cold water. Besides lots of liquid, How about caffeine? Should the beer be cold or at room temp?

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Former Member — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:48:32 GMT

a pint isn't a pint around the world... :) i have heard the pint in the english pub is getting smaller as we speak... we should have a pint and drink... think on it.

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Former Member — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:25:02 GMT

thanks bob :bow:... I can recall as a youngster how excited I was to get a pint of coke... with the bottle I imagine it was more than a pound easily but thinking of a pint itself it certainly seems less. cheers

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Former Member — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:58:16 GMT

1 liter of water = 1 kilogram = 2.2 lb. 1 liter > 1 quart 1 quart = 2 pints A pint is approx. = to 1 lb.

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swimflyfast — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:24:58 GMT

A Pint's a pound the world around.. I lost 15 lbs in collage at a weekend long wate-rpolo tournament. My coach (a real dope) gave us salt pills and told us not to drink too much water. This was pre water-bottle. I think he thought we were loafing if we got out of the pool to take a drink at the water fountain.. I had kidney stones after my Sr. year thanks to him. You do not want any part of that.. trust me.. Drink lots of water!!!

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srcoyote — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:12:41 GMT

I think I lose 3 pints of sweat sitting in 90 degree weather for 50 minutes. . . Seriously, there is one Y indoor pool that I occasionally have to train at due to schedules, etc. It is always between 87 and 90 in temp. The ambient temp is about 72. If I train for an hour, I easily lose 3 pints in the training and maybe an additional pint afterwards as I sweat for up to an hour after getting out. It takes me all day to rehydrate.

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Former Member — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:54:10 GMT

I do think a liter weighs one kilogram but I don't think a pint is a pound - pint <'t 'googled' - what do you think? sweat loss? weight loss?

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Former Member — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:50:28 GMT

I wrestled in high school... I bet I would be down closer to six pounds - I think it would vary quite a bit to body type.

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Former Member — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:30:13 GMT

Depends on intensity too. At high intensity 2-3 to me sounds legit.