Nutrition. Vitamins. You.
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Your hydration strategy is just as important as your workout plan. Proper hydration can be the difference between a good workout and a painful one.
Dehydration can impact numerous functions in your body, including your metabolism and your sweat rate. Your metabolism owes much of its function to the amount of water the body has available. When you are dehydrated, it can cause a reduction in your workouts. Sweat is how your body regulates temperature. When you sweat less, the effort can feel harder, which can leave you at risk of overheating. This is why having water is so important when you’re going to workout.
Here is what lead researchers suggest –
Total water intake each day: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests that women drink 2.7 liters (91 ounces) of total water each day.
Before exercise: The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) recommends drinking about 500 ml of fluid (about 17 ounces) two hours before exercise.
During and after exercise: The American Council on Exercise recommends drinking 7 to 10 fluid ounces every 10 to 20 minutes, and 16 to 24 fl oz. for every pound of body weight lost after exercise.
While that may seems like too many numbers to count while you’re working out, here’s a trick! Heather Milton, MS, RCEP, CSCS, an exercise physiologist and clinical specialist at NYU Langone’s Sports Performance Center has a great suggestion – “Weigh yourself before you begin to work out, then again after your workout is done. Compare the numbers to calculate how much you’ve lost. That number is your sweat rate.”
Another tip? Ditch your sports drink for Alkalizer! According to Amanda Williams, MPH, of InVite® Health, “It is not that we simply need to follow water hydration guidelines, but we also need to understand the important of rebalancing our electrolytes after excessive fluid-loss.” To do this, Williams suggests replacing and restoring your minerals with magnesium and potassium. A superior alkalizer powder – easily mixed into water during or after your workout – can provide you with these nutrients. They’ve been shown in studies to maintain pH balance in the body, support energy production, and even muscle and bone health.
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In honor of National Women’s Health & Fitness Day, we bring you the benefits of specific nutrients for women’s health, including essential nutrients needed for fitness. It’s so important that women are getting the essential nutrients to make sure they are keeping their body healthy as they look into fitness. If you are taking fitness more seriously, make sure to take the correct nutrients too.
If there’s one thing women need, it’s to be healthy. Women are continuously on-the-go. That means their energy levels need to keep up. But what happens when you’re exercising regularly and eating the right foods, but still seem to lack energy? A women’s multivitamin mineral formula could be what you need to help you boost your energy levels and combat nutrient depletions.
Nutrient depletion’s occur when your body is not receiving the correct amount of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fatty acids and other nutrients. This can be caused by numerous factors, such as an unhealthy diet, prescriptions drugs and medications, and free radical damage.
View InVite®’s Drug-Induced Nutrient Depletion Chart for more information!
“We live in an increasingly polluted environment, loaded with toxins; the soil we grow our food in is often nutrient-depleted and many consume processed, factory-made foods supplying scant nutrients. Ironically, our bodies wind up requiring even more vitamins and minerals to effectively metabolize nutrient-depleted foods. Add that depletion with less time spent outdoors, minimal exercise, prescription drugs and medications, and chronic stress, and the result is that many individuals are truly nutritionally deficient,” reports Archana Gogna, MS, CNS, MBA, Director of Nutrition for InVite® Health. For these reasons, healthcare professionals are advising their patients to start taking a safe, reliably-made, high-quality multivitamin mineral formula on a daily basis to fill the nutritional deficits in their diet.
According to a recent USDA survey 37% of Americans do not get enough Vitamin C, 70% do not get enough Vitamin E, nearly 75% do not get enough Zinc, and 40% do not get enough Iron. But not just any commercially available nutritional supplement product will meet these needs!
Women need a series of B-complex vitamins, which support healthy cell growth, help to maintain skin and muscle tone, and support metabolism, immune and nervous system functions. Ubiquinol CoQ10, or Coenzyme Q10, is an important energy-releasing nutrient that allows calories from food to be absorbed and utilized as energy. Tocotrienols, or Pine Bark Extract, are powerful protectors for artery walls, the heart, liver and for sexual organs. It acts as a cellular protector against free radicals.
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Scientific Director and Pharmacist, Jerry Hickey, understands that women need different vitamins and minerals. Because of this nutritional need, he has developed a superior Women’s Multivitamin that provides all of the necessary vitamins and minerals, with a superior twist – four ingredients that naturally support women’s health – Iron Bisglycinate to support energy and endurance, Type I Collagen for the maintenance of skin, nails and hair, Purple Corn Flower to support brain, eye and breast health and metabolism and DIM, or Diindolylmethane, that helps support breast and cervical health.*