People can starve for weeks but they die of thirst after 3 days! The worst thing that may happen to a sportsman is lack of liquids. Organism dehydration (decreased amount of water content in organism) influences sports performance (it makes it worse). Organism dehydration does not negatively influence only endurance type of exercise but also quality of speed and power sports performance.

Drink regularly during activity and prevent unpleasant exhaustion and performance decrease!
If you want to do maximum to maintain performance level and delay the onset of fatigue you have to supply liquids which you lose by sweating during activity. Drinking water during intensive activity and when the outside temperatures are high is not enough. Right drink should contain sufficient amount of minerals which you lose during performance by sweating and also enough carbohydrates which are important source of energy for organism. Drinks which contain minerals and carbohydrates are suitable for your activity as they provide much efficient and more effective organism hydration in comparison with pure water and support thus your performance!

Drink each 15 – 20 minutes of your performance 150 – 350 ml of liquids!

It is not enough to listen only to your body and drink when you feel thirsty. If you are thirsty, it will be probably too late and your organism will be dehydrated already – you lost much liquids which means that you will not be able to maintain the same level of performance and you will soon experience decrease in performance and exhaustion will come in a while, too. Lost of liquids in the amount of 3 % results in decreased performance by 20 %.

ISODRINX – drink suitable for your activity!
Drinks that you are going to consume during performance should contain minerals and carbohydrates and other functional substances. Sodium is the most important mineral which is lost by sweating the most. ISODRINX contains next to sodium also other minerals, such as magnesium, potassium, calcium and due to these minerals ISODRINX provides more effective organism hydration during activity and maintains the level of organism performance.

During more intensive activities our body dominantly uses carbohydrates which are the most important and dominant source of energy. Body has stored carbohydrates which are gradually used during activity. If the carbohydrates stores are emptied, the level of carbohydrates in blood will be decreased (hypoglycemia) and this is the nightmare of all sportsmen as it ends in one and the only state – rapid performance decrease which may lead to early end of your exercise. You should supply about 30 to 60 grams of carbohydrates each hour of your training. Right ion drink will give you the above mentioned minerals and also carbohydrates. Nevertheless you will not be able to supply all the necessary carbohydrates by drinking proper sports drink. Other possibility of energy supply during activity is usage of energy gels and bars (ENDUROSNACK, CARBOSNACK, POWER BIKE BAR,VOLTAGE ENERGY CAKE etc.).

Ion sports drinks = effective organism hydration during exercise
Water supply liquids but it does not contain important carbohydrates and other substances significant for your physical performance.
Sweet mineral waters and juices (contain on contrary very high amount of carbohydrates and that is why they are not suitable for activity since they do not provide organism hydration but the opposite – they make the organism hydration worse and negatively thus influence overall performance.

Ion sports drinks (isotonic or hypotonic drinks) – they supply important liquids to working organism, they provide much better organism hydration (due to contained carbohydrates and minerals) and more over they supply energy in the form of carbohydrates and minerals which we lose during activity by sweating.
Isotonic drinks are suitable for high intensity exercises that last for up to 60 minutes. Hypotonic drinks are suitable for medium intensive activities lasting for more than 60 minutes.
Think of drinking regime before the activity and also when you finish your exercise!
Organism hydration before activity
Start the activity with fully hydrated organism! Drink hypotonic drink about 2 hours pre-activity. Last drink serving should be consumed about 30 minutes before performance.

Organism hydration after the end of activity
Sportsmen should supply during performance as much liquids as they lose by sweating. As this is usually not possible during exercise, it is important to drink after the end of exercise. After performance you are supposed to supply for up to 150 % of lost liquids. So if you lost during activity about 1 liter of liquids you should supply the body with 1,5 l of liquids during the following two hours post-training. You may use for example UNISPORT.