Warrior Camp is held in the summer, in hot and sometimes desert like conditions (depending on venue). Regardless, most people show up at Warrior Camp dehydrated to begin with and then through long and active days, become more dehydrated. To completely enjoy your experience, it’s highly recommened to hydrate yourself before you come and then keep hydrated while at Warrior Camp.

To perform at the peak of your athletic ability, proper hydration is of the utmost importance. During exercise, your heart increases the blood flow to the muscles (in use) and the skin (to cool your body down). Through perspiration, your body loses about 1-litre (32 oz) of water per hour based on moderate activity. If you don’t replace the water you lose, your body starts to become dehydrated. At a higher heart rate and core temperature, your body can’t produce more energy, leaving you weakened and much more vulnerable to heat illness (symptoms such as headaches, nausea and muscle fatigue)

Do you purchase a lot of bottled drinking water? Does this ever bother you? I mean the fact that we pay anywhere from 1-2 bucks for a mere bottle of water. Shouldn’t it be a quarter or something? I mean come on, it’s just water. I get the stuff free at my house every day. Regardless of how much large companies want to charge for bottled drinking water, the fact is we buy it. And I mean we purchase oodles of this stuff. Anything from Evion, to Aquafina, to a dozen other random brand names. We pick up a bottle almost everywhere we go. Heck, I could have built a pyramid with all the bottled drinking water I spotted on my college campus. Hundreds of students were constantly walking around with this stuff. Now, all in all, this isn’t a bad thing. It does beat the massive soft drink craze that went on forever. At least water is healthy. I actually read an article on how much we require on a regular basis. This “nutritionist professional” claimed that our bodies get plenty of water from a variety of sources. It’s not just about the bottled drinking water. We acquire essential fluid from fruits, vegetables, juice, and even milk. Therefore it doesn’t always have to go down as 100% water. In addition, your body having to urinate it a sign that you have too much water in your system. The body always takes what it needs before it discards the rest.