How long after exercise can you drink water?

Maybe many of us particularly like some sports. Sports can effectively enhance our physical fitness and effectively improve our immunity and resistance. However, there are many precautions during and after exercise that we need to pay great attention to. Maybe many people don’t know how long they can drink water after exercise. Let us learn about it together.

1. You can eat half an hour after exercise. People who want to lose weight through exercise should wait at least 1.5-2 hours before eating, otherwise they will get fatter due to poor absorption. This was once a well-known exercise weight loss principle. However, sports nutritionist Han Xu told reporters that whether people who want to lose weight or gain muscle should eat promptly after exercise. This is because the process of exercise is a process of physical energy consumption, and high-intensity exercise consumes a large amount of nutrients in the body. After exercise, the body is in the best condition to absorb nutrients. If you supplement nutrients at this time, the body will absorb them best. Only by replenishing the nutrients needed by the body in time can we avoid causing harm to the body.

2. There are also some rules for drinking water after exercise. You cannot drink a lot of water at once. You should wait a few minutes after exercise and then replenish water appropriately. It is not advisable to replenish pure water after exercise, because pure water contains almost no salt and minerals excreted by the human body through sweating. When people perform strenuous exercise in high temperatures, they sweat a lot, causing the body to lose water and salt. If you drink a lot of water without replenishing salt in time, the sodium chloride concentration in the blood will decrease, muscle excitability will increase, and it is easy to cause muscle cramps and pain. There are also some rules for drinking cold drinks. You should wait until your body temperature drops significantly before drinking iced drinks or beer.

It is very important to know in advance how long you can drink water after exercise. We must pay great attention to these contents to avoid causing unnecessary harm to our bodies. At the same time, mastering some scientific exercise methods is also very helpful to better improve our own physical fitness.