Whether you are an athlete competing collegiately, intramurally or just like to remain active, here is why tracking your hydration as a young sportsperson is key to your success both in competition and life.
| by Parit Mistry – Group 2
In the year 2025, everyone is busy. There are more distractions then ever, cell phones, social media, sports, school and many more things. For young athletes to flourish in their sport, need to know the importance of hydration and how to track it more effectively.
At AquaFresh, we created a product that is a smart environmentally friendly water bottle that takes care of your hydration needs with its built-in hydration tracker. This will help tracking hydration for young athletes.
All young athletes know that drinking water while in competition is a no-brainer. Your body is sweating all of its fluids out when you are push it to the limit. Whether it be skating hard on the backcheck after losing the puck, finishing strong in a marathon, diving for a loose ball. As a result of this effort, your body needs to stay hydrated to continue to perform at a high level.
Why is tracking my hydration important as an athlete?
1. Tracking hydration helps with consistency
To be great in anything requires a tremendous amount of dedication and consistency. Using AquaFresh to track your daily water intake allows you to stay consistent with your hydration. Being a young athlete, the need to have a proper routine and core practices is important if you are looking to achieve greatness on the field, ice or track. Ensuring you are staying disciplined and consistent with your water drinking habits is crucial! Using AquaFresh you can stay on top of your daily water intake!
2. Learn more about your hydration through benchmarking
Athletes, especially young aspiring professionals would benefit with benchmarks. Using AquaFresh, you will start to gain an idea on how you feel after drinking X amount of water versus on a day you drink Y amount of water. It is also beneficial to have this information when dealing with athletic and nutrition staff, it will better help them, help you.
3. Staying hydrated is good for your health
Lastly, the most important aspect about hydration is the health. There have been thousands of studies conducted on the reasons why water is crucial for your health. I won’t bore you with the nitty, gritty science behind it all. An informative article written in 2019 by writers at Goodyear Chiropractic Health Center stated that the main reasons would be its benefits in recovery, digestion and reducing fatigue (Admin, 2019).
- Check it out here: Importance of Hydration on Recovery – Goodyear Chiropractic Health Center
Recovery, another no-brainer, as a young athlete you need to be locked and loaded before your next game or meet. Staying hydrated using AquaFresh will allow your body to get enough of the nutrients it needs to repair strained muscles or tendons.
Digestion, diet is extremely vital. You, as a young athlete, are reaching the years you would consider an athletic prime and to elongate your athleticism, you need to be able to eat and minimize issues within your body. Drinking water consistently and tracking how much you drink will let you eat and minimize the chance of dealing with issues such as indigestion.
Finally, reducing fatigue. I was also once a young athlete myself, I would not be tracking my water intake, I did not have an AquaFresh water bottle to keep me on top of my hydration which meant I was constantly fatigued. Consuming and tracking water intake will allow for you – a young athlete to do more after those grueling days.
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Citation
Admin, G. (2019, April 15). Importance of hydration on recovery – Goodyear Chiropractic Health Center. Goodyear Chiropractic Health Center. https://www.goodyearhealth.com/resources/blog/importance-of-hydration-on-recovery/