Drinking enough might seem simple, but for athletes, it takes a bit more effort than just sipping water. Whether you're into long-distance running, team sports, or regular gym sessions, your body loses more than just water during intense activity. Sweat...

After an intense workout or exercise session, what you eat and drink is back on the agenda. Electrolytes are part of that conversation, because they go out in sweat along with water. In Australia, athletes and fitness enthusiasts alike pay close attention to what goes back in the bottle after training. In this article, we will look at what is lost in sweat, what contains electrolytes, and when losses are highest.

Hot summer days and hard training sessions often go hand in hand, especially for those who play footy, hit the gym or train outdoors. When the heat turns up, there’s more to it than drinking water. You sweat more, which...

Getting stronger is one of the most common goals in fitness, especially for people who lift weights or train intensely. Whether you're starting out with basic resistance workouts or aiming to hit personal records at the gym, finding the right...

Drinking during exercise goes beyond just water. When you sweat, your body loses more than just fluid. It also loses electrolytes. These minerals include sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium, and they go out with the sweat along with the water....

Sweat is mostly water, but it is not only water. It carries dissolved minerals out of the body every time you work in the heat, and the amount varies far more between people than most of us assume. This article looks at what sweat is actually made of, what changes how much of it you produce over a shift or a session, why sweat sodium concentration differs so widely from person to person, and where those same minerals appear on a nutrition information panel. It is written for an Australian audience, where heat, humidity and long outdoor days are part of ordinary working life.

In the world of sports, electrolytes get talked about constantly. Whether you’re a dedicated athlete or a weekend warrior, it helps to know what they actually are, when sweat losses are highest, and which foods and products contain them. If you’re curious about how it all fits together, keep reading.

Sweat losses are not a property of a person so much as a property of a day. Heat and humidity, the length of a shift, whether the work is indoors or out, how many hard days have stacked up in a row, how long someone has been working in that climate and whether they have just stepped off a plane all move the numbers. This article is a situational guide to the conditions in which losses run highest, the minerals named on a nutrition panel, and who tends to reach for a hydration powder and when.

Electrolytes, Sweat and Sport Are you training hard, playing weekend sport, or just spending a lot of time exercising in the Australian heat? If so, electrolytes will have come up in conversation at some point. These minerals leave the body...