Sweating is essential for cooling down during exercise. Unfortunately, it causes you to lose water as well as valuable electrolytes. What influences how much you sweat and how to measure it? Which electrolytes do you lose?
We know that spending quality time in green spaces is good for physical and mental health. New research suggests that being connected to nature can improve our diet too. Can riding your bike among the trees help you eat better?
When you sweat, you are losing electrolytes such as sodium, magnesium, potassium, and calcium. These are all important for health and exercise performance but the most talked about one is definitely sodium. Let’s take a look at why you should care about it too.
Team Jumbo-Visma is at the cutting edge of nutrition. What’s their secret? Is it machine learning, ketones or their performance chefs? Asker Jeukendrup, the head of nutrition at Jumbo-Visma, summarized on his blog the main lessons he learned from working with a top Tour de…