Monday, February 14, 2011

How much water should you drink?

For my first post I'll teach you something I just recently learned:
Today I was speaking with Aaron, a trainer at Wiefit, about why people do and don't have any veins "popping" out of my arms. Many people look to have this vascularity in their arms because its shows off their hard work. Surprisingly, I found out today that water plays a huge role in vascularity. Muscles are about 80% water, so by filling them up with water, they will become larger and push your veins to the surface causing them to "pop." In your diet, make sure to include one ounce of water per pound of lean mass... make sure its lean mass, not total body weight. For example if you weigh 205 pounds, and you are 9% body fat, you have about 185 pounds of lean mass. So this person should drink 185 ounces of water per day.