Its getting to the busy end of the fire season..........So, how much water should you be drinking? Rural firefighters need to be drinking at least 950ml of fluid per hour during hard work (Domitrovitch & Sharkey, 2008). Basically ONE Litre! If youre hacking line for eight hours, you need to be consuming nearly eight litres of fluid to compensate for all the fluid lost to sweat. They also recommend that between 1/3 and 1/2 of all fluid consumed during a shift should be a sports drink. But why a sports drink? Why not just regular water? Ever look at your yellows after an turnout? Notice how the straps of your turnout gear are neatly outlined in a white crust? That white crust is salt. Salt that once was in your body, doing good things. You need to get that salt (and other electrolytes like Potassium) back into your system.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 07:31:49 +0000
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