avoid mouth drying out
avoid mouth drying out
hello, just wondering if anyone has any tips/ideas to prevent from your mouth drying out during erg tests, especially during longer tests like 6k,10k. I did one recently, and although I was very well hydrated, my mouth was as dry as a desert after the first 1-2k.
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Kiwi_Rower
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Yeah I get that too.. probably mostly because after a couple of K I am breathing through my mouth trying to get oxygen in lol... I was thinking about one of those backpack/beltpack water bottle systems from camelbak http://www.camelbak.com/index.cfm but I thought it might be a bit pretentious. At least I wouldnt have to stop rowing to take a few sips on a one hour piece.
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Re: avoid mouth drying out
Dry mouth is one of the characteristics of an adrenaline rush. I have experienced this in both a 2k erg race and in an intense situation reefing a mainsail in a 35 knot wind. I was hydrated well enough on both occasions, but, in each case, my mouth went very dry in just a minute or so and stayed that way until the excitment was over.trap_star wrote:hello, just wondering if anyone has any tips/ideas to prevent from your mouth drying out during erg tests, especially during longer tests like 6k,10k. I did one recently, and although I was very well hydrated, my mouth was as dry as a desert after the first 1-2k.
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I would be afraid of sucking the hard candy into my trachea and choking - that would seriously impact the workoutJohnny wrote:I always keep a piece of slow-melting hard candy in my mouth. It helps me a lot.
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Wow John, I think that "seriously impact the workout" is the understatment of the century.John Hendrie wrote:I would be afraid of sucking the hard candy into my trachea and choking - that would seriously impact the workoutJohnny wrote:I always keep a piece of slow-melting hard candy in my mouth. It helps me a lot.
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Dry mouth is also caused by heavy breathing through the mouth as air rushes back and forth across your tongue and mouth roof. Theoretically, you're suppose to breathe in and out through your nose, not your mouth. That would obviously stop the problem. But I don't feel the same clearing out of my lungs exhaling through my nose only and I do exhaling through my mouth. However, when I inhale through my nose during the stroke and exhale through my mouth during the recovery, my throat is less dry during the workout. A nice thing to practice in training starting on the lower stroke rate pieces. Gets harder to do at higher ratings, especially if you're trying to get a 2 breath cycle per stroke in.
Yeah, I find that this helps before a workout. Glucose sweets too.I always keep a piece of slow-melting hard candy in my mouth. It helps me a lot.
At SA Champs the conditions were dry, on top of the air being thin and I had to race three races in a day (Heats, Semis, Finals). After the second race my throat was bleeding, even after drinking tonnes of water before and after races. Something that I borrowed from a friend is Staminade Endure, which is designed to specifically enhance the absorbtion of liquids into the body and works brilliantly. I could feel the difference during my race.[/url]
Re: avoid mouth drying out
<not a serious reply> getting a dry mouth is a very common problem when participating in one of my other primary activities of interest (skydiving) we always jokingly suggest that people should lick their palms since they are also generally sweaty as well..Bob S. wrote:Dry mouth is one of the characteristics of an adrenaline rush.
