A couple short bits from experience...

My health fell a part to the degree that I could only shadow box light for a few rounds and MAYBE a couple light rounds on bag and then I would have to take a day or two off (signifying the little I did was too much)... I eventually found out I had denervative atrophy (muscles withering away like when you wear a cast).

No doctors helped and after a bunch of specialists couldn't help I started studying exercise and nutrition etc...

I started working with a exercise coach who looked at things from multiple angles.

By that time my health had built up a lot but I was yet at the point where I could push myself without crashing... slowly I was building up and could do a little more and a little more. I started being able to do a fair bit but if I pushed in training I crashed.

I had a strength and conditioning program (as well as lifestyle program including food and water etc) and I kept crashing and not quite being able to finish it.

I finally figured out more closely the macronutrient ratios (protein, fat, carbs) and fine tuned my eating to that and when I did that I started being able to complete my strength program and train harder.

With my body being so low and trying to train (pushing the limits) - I believe I had very solid feed back to what was working - more so than if I wasn't crashing (laying on floor in dark, cool, quiet room, not being able to handle noise, move or eat..difficulty speaking even in many cases.

I think the results of my choices because of my situation were easier to see than someone who wasn't crashing and or wasn't training...

If I missed my water intake, yet got my food and sleep in, I couldn't finish my workout... same with any three of those (food, water, sleep). Miss out on one or more and I could not complete my workout and couldn't push training.

I also seen specifically some cool stuff with water.

One example

A friend, triathlete - had a type of arthritis. I forget the name and its not a common type.. she would have to go in and get blood work done frequently (I see here here and there and can ask)... anyway she drank loads of tea, holding the belief that she was getting enough water from that. I suggested just drinking water to replace the tea (she was drinking multiple cups a day).

I saw her a few days later and she said she was feeling so much better and not long after she went to doc for blood work and it showed she was fine.

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I go by (as a starting point, not as this is exactly what you need) 0.5oz water per lbs of body weight... this is a starting basic number (training and climate etc may mean more and everyone is different - but a start point...

so for 200lbs person that is 100oz

Its hard to get that much fluid on top of that amount of water...

If anyone is curious enough to experience fr themselves how they feel doing this and then comparing it with substituting coffee for some I would be willing to bet you WILL feel a difference.

say you did 100oz (if 200lbs) for two weeks...
then go to 75oz of water and 25oz of coffee and see how your feeling, sense of well being, energy levels and performance is.

YOU do the test.... go out of the intellectual and into the experiential.

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