Sodium Intake Beliefs, Information Sources and Intended Practices of Endurance Athletes Before and During Exercise. There is little information that describes how endurance athletes perceive sodium recording in terms of training and competition. On the basis of an online questionnaire, opinions, sources of information and intended practices were evaluated in terms of sodium recording for training and competition. Endurance athletes from six English-speaking countries filled out the questionnaire and were included for analysis.The most common sources of information were social contacts, self-experiments and media. The respondents said that endurance athletes generally require additional sodium daily, benefiting from an increased sodium content in the days before the competition, the sodium losses should be replaced during training and competition and would benefit from welding composition tests. The respondents generally considered that the intake of sodium during endurance training from muscle cramps and a hyponatremia associated with movement prevents.The majority planned to consciously increase sodium recording or food intake in the days before competition. Most of them were aware of sodium recording during the competition, but only about a third could formulate a particular revenue plan. A small minority indicated to use commercial welding tests, 75% of the opinion that this was advantageous.It has been followed that endurance athletes usually feel the sodium supply as important for their sports activities.
Many intend to consciously increase the sodium supply in the days before and during the competition, although these views are mainly influenced by non-scientific and / or non-evidence-based sources. The very interesting work can be found under https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30507276/