Are Athletes Properly Hydrating: What do we Know?

Abstract

Copyright: © 2013 Dizon JMR. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Heat related injuries have been considered as one of the detrimental injuries in sports activities [1]. As such, research related to the assessment of hydration levels, coaches and athletes’ knowledge of proper hydration in training and competition and development of hydration guidelines and strategies have flourished in the literature [2-5]. Given the vast amount of information to guide athletes in maintaining an optimum state of hydration to prevent heat related injuries, there is limited evidence regarding the utilization of information in actual and practical scenario.