had an hour's training session the other night, more or less the same as any other session. I drained a 500ml bottle of water whilst I was training (obviously i'd been drinking water during the day too)

came home and it was getting late so had a shower and went to bed. But the following morning I woke up and felt really dehydrated.

like I said there was nothing really different, had a slight sniffle but other than that it was a standard session. is this just a case of needing to drink more during training sessions, or is it likely to be something that I am gonna have to think about and change the way I keep myself hydrated during the day?

any advice would help

Tracey xxx

did you eat anything salty,spicy, or sweet after or before you drank all that water?  all these facts can vary results of hydration.  Every year for wrestling we have to pass a hydration test in order to wrestle and during this period of time wrestlers are limited to a strict diet to gaurantee success.  We are not allowed to have anything salty before drinking water and nothing sweet after words.  And absolutely no spicy food.  Salty foods with water afterwords will only counter act the salt in the body which does nothing to your body in terms of hydration unless you drink more water than needed in which case it will only help in small amount.  sweets after drinking water will lower the effects of hydration on the body.  All it does is make the sugar stickier causing more cavities and such.  All the water that was drunk automatically goes towards the sugar and little is left for the body.  swiching them around will make a diffrnece but on a scale from one to ten it will make a 4's value of change which is good enough according foe some doctors.  spicy foods will just take every once of water and will either mess it up or let it pass but will not let the body process it in time.  More information could be obtained from coaches, doctors, nurses, or even you instructors.  if none of the above happend then it could be a case in which the body sweted out the water wghile in sleep.  Thats why some poeple need to drink water in the morning.  Some people will just consider this a phase if it happens more than once or a coincidence if it only happens once.  hope this helps.

When you say you felt dehydrated, was it dry mout or something else? If it's dry mouth then you may have slept with your mouth open.

Did you go to bathroom more then usually, did you eat some dish during the day or didn't eat something you normally do?

I usually drink a gallon and half on days I work out compared to my usual gallon on none work out days because for some reason I get nervous on training days and find myself going more then usually.

As Baby_Huey stated, I too drink over 1.5 gallons a day.  I have water w/ me almost every where I go and keep an insulated, 54oz jug of ice water on my nightstand.  My only question is how much water are you drinking through out the day and what is the climate like where you live?  I live in semi-tropical SW Florida so it's almost always hot and humid.  Therefor, I have to drink more...

live in rainy old England, no not much chance of tropics here :)

Baby_huey, as far as how I know when i'm dehydrated goes, how do I put this without getting into too much detail... I'm medically trained, I can check urine (sorry, tmi) and the colour tells me if dehydration is present. that and I woke up that morning seriously thirsty, which hardly ever happens.

I usually get through about two litres of water (sorry, dont ask me what that is in gallons, know pints and fluid ounces but not gallons) a day, if I drink too much in one go it makes me feel nautious, but the idea of keeping a drink on the nightstand is appealing, I think I might be able to get away with drinking more if I space it out a bit, especially days when I train.

hopefully it was an isolated incident, but just got back from training, so will try taking a bottle of water to bed with me, see if it helps. could be worth keeping a closer eye on what I eat too, by the sounds of it. 

thanks for the advice guys, ur absolute gems :)

tracey xxx

Just try spacing out your water consumption through out the day.  Drink often.  I fill up my 54oz mug at work at least 2 times in an an 8hr shift.  I have another 54oz mug at home that also gets filled up more then @ at work. 

I have trouble with colors, partial color blindness. When I was in college, they started to require wrestlers get weekly hydration test, they have an instriment that you take an drop of urine and measures everything that is in it and you had to keep certain levesl of different things from water content and salt.  I have one because I had to do it almost daily in college ( I cut from 310 to 265 in three weeks, don't recommend that), also some supplements (if you are taking any) could affect coloration as well.

But from the sound of it it sounds, I think it was a one time thing.

i've read somewhere that also if you drink cold/chilled water it goes straight through u and is not distributed throughout the body. Drinking water at room temp (yuk) or just not cold apparently is better as it reamins the same temp as body and therefore is utilised more efficiently.

Please tell me if i'm speaking rubbish............