How Does Water Help Build Muscle and Lose Weight?

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1. How much water you need to drink a day to avoid dehydration? This may vary from person to person. But on overage, the body requires about 8-12 cups of water /day. If you are a very active individual, you may need more than this amount!
2. Drink water before exercise to reduce the risk of dehydration! It also should be done immediately following workout.
3. And after exercise, drink some water to replenish your body! This is useful to keep your performance up on the following days.
4. Regardless you are thirsty or not, you have to stay hydrated at regular intervals. When you feel thirsty, this may become a sign that your body is already dehydrated. To gain more muscles and get the maximum performance in gym, it is important to keep hydrated.
5. To replenish your body quickly after workout, drink cold water for best result since it is relatively easier to be absorbed into the body system. Even, some studies found that cold water may also help burn some calories – though this issue may be still debatable!
6. When you wake up in the morning, drink at least about 16 ounces of water! After sleeping about 6-8 hours at night, your body can lose lots of fluids, particularly if your bedroom is dry and hot.
7. If you love caffeine, you may need to drink water more to keep hydrated! Caffeine can act as a diuretic that increases the risk of dehydration. The same effect can come from alcohol and soda beverages.

*Work with a professional trainer for more advice!

Keeping hydrated is one of effective ways to avoid the fake of a hunger signal. It can help suppress your appetite. Even it may also be helpful to metabolize the storage of your excessive body fat.

More episodes of having lack of fluid in the body will increase the risk of accumulating more fat deposits in the body – according to some studies. On the other hand, keeping hydrated may help reduce the risk.

Experts theorize that lack of water in the body can affect the efficiency of kidney function. Then this affects the liver which eventually will decrease the metabolism of fat in the liver.

Thirsty is a common symptom of dehydration. But to get to know it early, you can easily monitor the color of your urine. If the color is darker, dark yellow – drink more water to make it lighter in color!

Other symptoms include:

1. Cool, dry skin.
2. Sticky, dry mouth.
3. Headache.
4. Darker-yellow urine, as noted before.
5. Muscle cramps may also occur.

In a severe case of dehydration, the problem can generate more serious symptoms (such as heat injury after exercise, seizures, a significant decrease in blood volume (hypovolemic shock), and kidney failure) – or even can be life-threatening condition (causing coma or death).