Of all the sport drinks out there, and there are many, which one is the best for optimal human performance (excluding beer)? Gatorade, Powerade, Cytomax? How about Endura or Muscle Milk? How about H2O. Water. Water is not only the best sports performance drink, without it there is poor performance or no performance at all. I found that out tonight at the start of my workout. I realized I drank very little water today, maybe only a glass and a half.

This is the workout I intended to do tonight, minus the rowing, from the Crossfit site:

Complete 40 intervals of 20 seconds of work followed by ten seconds
of rest. Perform 8 consecutive intervals of each of the following
exercises:

Wall-ball 20 pound ball, 10 ft target. (Reps)
Sumo deadlift high-pull 75 pounds (Reps)
Box Jump 20″ box (Reps)
Push-press 75 pounds (Reps)
Row (Calories)

What happened was just as I was starting the second exercise, the Sumo deadlift high-pull, I just stopped. I was extremely thirsty and I had no stamina to continue, so I didn’t. I went to the drinking fountain to fill up on the precious fluid, but by then, it was too late. Time for Plan B. I decided it would be a good alternative to work on things I want to improve, namely pull-ups, back squats and exercise to the long-injured adductors. It was a good plan and I love it when a plan comes together, even if it is a Plan B.

Here is how it played out at the gym tonight:

•Wall-ball 15 pound ball, 10 ft target. (8 x 20 sec, 10 sec. rest)
•Alternated between 6×3 back squats and
•6 x 25 of box jumps, (step-ups actually)
The weights on the back squats were 175/185/155/175/175/175. The goal was to work on improving form, especially going ass to ankles and holding it before coming out of the “hole”.
•Pull-ups, 10/10/11/8. I am getting a little closer to true kipping pull-ups.
Total time was about 30 minutes.

Lesson learned. Call it what you want, hydrate, drink water-a lot of it and the performance and good health return.

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