How do I retain water?

[Haphazard]

Okay, this may seem like an odd request.

I was at a yoga class where the temperature was 105 degrees (F) and 40-60% humidity. I tried to drink water before class as recommended, but I kept pissing it out about five minutes after I drank it. I spent most of the 90 minutes on the floor trying not to black out. It's nearly three hours later and I'm still a bit dizzy, I'm surprised I was able to drive home.

If I were to try this again, how would I retain water? What can I do now, even? I still feel kind of dizzy.

 

[Robert165]

try talking to the yoga instructor???

 

[King sns]

Umm.. You can't.. really, and still make the water useful to your body.
You should bring water with you and drink while you are there. Gatorade may be the other best option, so you are replacing your fluid along with electrolytes and your body can maintain better balance.

I'm not a big sports guru, but they are the best tips I know.

 

[Tiltyred]

Is it possible that hot room yoga is not the yoga for you? I would try to find an environment more friendly to my body than try to adapt my body to an environment that makes it dizzy.

(I don't know the answer -- I have the same problem -- I used to faint in karate class because I would dehydrate before anybody else did.)

 

[wren]

drink throughout your exercising period. also you may need to increase foods that increase water retention like salt. salt is the only one i'm sure that helps to retain water.

 

[King sns]

drink throughout your exercising period. also you may need to increase foods that increase water retention like salt. salt is the only one i'm sure that helps to retain water.

Yea, but then your not really using the water for your brain and such which needs it during exercise. You're just kind of carrying it around with the salt.

 

[Ghost of the dead horse]

Yep, drink something other than pure water. Any salts & sugars in the drink will help.

 

[tinkerbell]

because you also need salt.... Eat soem crisp, drink some water, then do yoga...

Sweat contains water and salt

you may be over dooing the water

 

[Ginkgo]

how would I retain water?

It puts the lotion on the skin?

EDIT: What is your fiber intake like?

 

[sLiPpY]

I think your body was trying to tell you something. If the temperature in the environment is more than one's body temperature. 98.7 degrees

It is not wise to workout. In fact that's begging for a heat stroke.

 

[Seymour]

There are personal difference in tolerance to heat (I suffer in the heat more than many) but some of it is acclimation. You may need to spend some shorter periods of time in the heat not exercising before you spend long periods of the time exercising.

I recommend googling for "Bikram Yoga heat exhaustion" and reading articles like this:

Yoga Journal - Yoga Asana Columns - Facing the Heat

That make suggestions on how to handle the heat. Heat exhaustion is a serious matter, so if you need to get out and cool down, do so.

(Personally, exercising in those temperatures would be my ideal of hell, but some people really love it.)

 

[sculpting]

I took bikram for a few months. The first several sessions really suck due to the heat/humidity and so many of the movements making you place your arms above your head or head behind your back-both causing drops in blood pressure. I acclimated after about two weeks.

Water levels are set via ADH and seem to vary from person to person. Your brain regulates the water to sodium levels via changes in ADH and thus signals to the kidneys to dump or retain water to make the balance correct. Your brain is very sensitive to sodium/water levels. As you drink more water, you dilute the sodium, your brain compensates and dumpes the water back out. If you eat a bunch of salt, the sodium becomes concentrated and your barin signals thirst.

In general if you are prone to chronic fatigue, faintness or lightheadedness at times, increasing salt levels is one thing physicians suggest.

eat pickles, raman noodles, chicken noodle soup-all very high in salt and see if you feel better.

 

[Bubbleboy]

Okay, this may seem like an odd request.

I was at a yoga class where the temperature was 105 degrees (F) and 40-60% humidity. I tried to drink water before class as recommended, but I kept pissing it out about five minutes after I drank it. I spent most of the 90 minutes on the floor trying not to black out. It's nearly three hours later and I'm still a bit dizzy, I'm surprised I was able to drive home.

If I were to try this again, how would I retain water? What can I do now, even? I still feel kind of dizzy.

How much water do you typically drink in a day? And not just on training days.

 

[Poki]

A long distance runner I knew used to eat alot of pickles for the salt.

 

[swordpath]

Drink a sport drink like Gatorade in conjunction to water, so like a bottle of each.

 

[d@v3]

Electrolytes

 

[Mad Hatter]

Apple juice + mineral water is rich in elecrolytes.
If you can get it, try alcohol free wheat beer (recommended by a former sports teacher of mine).

 

[1104]

mix in some salt. add lemon.
homemade gatorade.

 

[kyuuei]

I agree with water that has a bit more stuff in it. Also, we were taught when you first start drinking the "recommended" amount of water, you have to piss all the time, and you feel waterlogged and stuff.. It takes about 2 weeks for your system to adjust and have a 'breakthrough' of some sort to adjust to the new water intake. Drink a consistent amount of water everyday and stick with it to help your body adjust to it all. Right now it may be thinking you're just giving it too much.. much the way a body clings to food instead of burning it if you don't eat regularly.

 

[RicPTmc]

eat gelatine...
carefull with the sugar

retoric: "what happens to a fruit after it matures?"