Tips to Stay Hydrated - Camelbak hydrated

Kate: The beautiful thing about hydration is if you focus on getting more water, some of the other bad stuff will naturally fall away. The first thing I encourage people to do is right when you first get up, have a glass of water. Get in that habit. It's going to help wake you up, perk you up, help you start your day. Then the other big piece for executives, or frankly anyone who has a coffee cup or a teacup, is when do you put down the coffee cup and pick up that water bottle? I want to make sure that my clients are picking it up as early in the day as they can and they have it in front of them. You will sip more if you see it. Doug: When we're talking about accessibility regarding hydration, it's different what it would mean for an athlete or a person in everyday life. A person in everyday life, the core part of an adult's life, more than 50% is their work day. Having it within arm's reach hydration, I think is going to encourage the hydration process. For an athlete it's different if it's an individual athlete in an endurance sport or a team sport. A team sport may require localized hydration stations that people can get to regularly during the practice. Also great management by the coaching and the sports medicine staff so that they have regular rest breaks so they can get to fluids and have enough time to drink it at regular intervals. For an individual athlete, like an endurance athlete, it means bringing the fluids with you, so that you have the fluids when you need them so you're staying ahead of the dehydration problem throughout the activity. Matt: Coaches, to get their athletes to be really consistent with hydration, the first thing that you have to do is actually have the coach understand that hydration and nutrition is a part of the training program; that's the first thing. Then you get into, how do you make that occur? There are little tools, or little tricks, that you can give the athletes to just ensure that they're at least in their daily hydration, staying hydrated. When you first wake up in the morning, make sure that you drink a glass of water. Before every single meal, make sure you have a glass of water, and start to get the athlete to see water as a part of their life. Then the other component is actually the cues that athletes can remember. There's no point in blinding the athlete, especially youth athletes, with terminology, science, and negative consequences, but they will remember key phrases. We always talk about drip feeding; imagine that you've got an IV in your arm. Just making sure that it ultimately becomes a part of life. If you do that, you're at least the first step of the way to proper hydration.