Water

I believe most people, including athletes, don't drink enough water.

Consider the following:

Water makes up 55 to 75 percent of your total bodyweight.

Drinking five glasses of water a day can lower the risk of deadly heart disease. A Loma Linda University study found that  people who drank five eight-ounce glasses of water daily were about half as likely to die of coronary heart disease as those who drank two glasses or less.

For athletes:
Water helps you recover from workouts, aids in the fat-based fueling of muscles and provides for storage of water inside your cells. When you become dehydrated, all of these functions become less effective and your performance levels lower.
Water contributes to energy storage by being stored alongside glycogen. If you do not drink enough water to facilitate this, extra glucose  remains in your bloodstream until it reaches your liver. Then the glucose is stored as fat. You can actually get fatter when you do not consume adequate amounts of water.
Your vital fluid blood is made up of 90% water. We all know that blood transports needed nutrients and energy to working muscles.

I say it's time to buy a home water filter if you don't already have one, there's a variety of good filters out there and they don't cost all that much. You can't really put a price on something that is essential to your health. We're not talking about the newest miracle supplement here, water is one of the vital substances needed to maintain life, health and well being.

Eight hours on my feet at work plus walking and lifting, stretching later.

What did you do today?