Are you planning to exercise more? Are you going for more walking, cycling or jogging? Very well. Your body and your mind must be very grateful to you because regular exercise is healthy. But when you move, you often get thirsty. How do you keep it healthy? How much should you drink while walking or cycling?
✔ Do: Drink water!
You already knew this: there is nothing better than water, so drink water! Take a sports or water bottle filled with water. If it is very hot you can possibly fill it with some extra ice cubes.
Avoid disposable plastic bottles. They are not only bad for the environment, but if you refill and reuse them a few times, they can stimulate throat infections. Therefore always choose a reusable bottle that is dishwasher safe.
Tap water is fine, but sometimes tastes weird. In that case, use a handy filter jug.
✖ Don’t: Sports drinks and energy drinks
Sports drinks are only useful for very intensive sports to efficiently compensate for the large loss of minerals and moisture. If you go for a recreational walk or cycle, then you don’t need a sports drink at all.
They also often contain unhealthy sugars. Energy drinks are not done at all. You better leave that junk in the store. The large amounts of caffeine are downright unhealthy. You do not get that hoped-for energy boost at all, a brisk walk or bike ride will. So if you want to drink something, you go for water or something healthy …
✔ Do: Vary by using herbs and / or fruit infusions
Do you find water boring? That is possible, every person is different. You can give your water a taste by adding healthy things to it: lime, lemon, mint, strawberries, raspberries, berries, watermelon, basil, cucumber, orange, … whatever you like: just combine. Let syrup and the like stand better.
✖ Don’t: Soft drink and fruit juice
No matter how tempting they are sometimes, it’s best not to drink them. Soft drinks but also fruit juice is full of fast sugars and contains a lot of calories. Soda is just unhealthy, you have to eat fruit, not drink. No, preferably no fresh smoothies. You have to walk for a long time to get those calories off again.
✔ Do: Drink (spray) water or tea on a terrace
Do you like to stop on the road at a cozy terrace? Nice, but do not give in to the group pressure and drink what your body needs the most: water. Spray water is also allowed. If it is a bit colder, you can of course also opt for tea.
“I don’t give 2 $ to a glass of water,” you might think. Why not? It is the most valuable for your body. Would you rather give money to something that makes you fat and unhealthy? Oh no? One to think about when you start your journey later.
✖ Don’t: Enriched coffee and/or alcohol
You don’t do much wrong with one cup of coffee, but a lot of coffee is unhealthy. Certainly, if it is also enriched (or better depleted) by (whipped) cream, sugar, syrup, chocolate, etc. Alcohol is even worse, it is even a double thickener: many calories and few useful substances. It loads your liver and so your general combustion. So let it stand if you really want to keep your walk or bike ride healthy.
Of course, an exception is quite possible. But it must be an exception, not a beer three times a week because you have walked for half an hour. Don’t fool yourself, but keep yourself healthy.
❤ Lots of walking and cycling pleasure!
Reference:
https://www.adventurecycling.org/blog/10-ways-to-stay-healthy-on-a-bike-tour/
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