Did people walk around with water bottles or sports beverages in 1960’s and 1970’s? Over hydration is a serious prob

the woke are so concerned about the planet that they consume and throw away 38 billion empty bottles of water each year. Thanks for fing up the planet Greta!

No they (we) didn't. We drank from a water fountain before practice and that was it.

I remember in college, late 70's, 1980 or so. The town water was contaminated and undrinkable for a couple days.

Some students went to the next town over and filled water bottles and sold it. It was a joke- the idea that you had to pay money for a bottle of water was so ludicrous that it got a big laugh. Even the guys selling it did it as a joke to kind of protest the the fact that we couldn't drink tap water.

No...During football practise we weren't allowed to drink water, even in 100 degree weather...This whole 'constantly drinking water thing' is ridiculous...It's become a fetish.

I remember 20 years ago where if you got thirsty on a run you looked for a house with a garden hose.

Now society has deemed I will get cancer from hose, or shot by home owner for trespassing.

Back in my day, my college coach had a rule that we could only drink water the day before meets, that way we'd feel great for our races! Kids these days drinking water everyday are soooo overhydrated and worse runners as a result (with new tracks and supershoes a 4:00 mile today is probably a 4:20 mile when I was in college)

Well, h2o and sports beverage are different. You can get water from your faucet. My doc wants me to get 60oz a day. Virtually impossible unless you are carrying a flask all the time. But yes, I do wonder how dehydrated we all were back in the day if we need 60-80 oz a day! 3 squares a day and 3 hits from the fountain tops. Maybe 20 oz?

I played ice hockey in the early 1970’s…coaches wouldn’t let us drink water during practice cause they said it would make us look like (pu$$ie$)

but then the hydration thing got big

i think Gatorade was the start

now the beverage companies are pushing everyone to drink

there is a lot of conflict too between the beverage companies interest ($$$$) vs public

if You don’t have a water bottle you get shamed

You might require 2000ml of water per day, but if your diet is healthy, a large percentage of it will come from your food.

no, call it crazy but people drank when they were thirsty, or when they were eating a meal. there were plenty of soft drink machines around, and water fountains.

No, although in the 60s and 70s there were these things called drinking fountains that could be found in almost all public areas. They seem to have pretty well vanished, requiring people to carry their own water. (See, also, pay phone booths.)

We weren't allowed to drink water during PE lessons. You could have a drink in your bag, but you couldn't drink it in any lesson, only at break or lunch. So you got changed and did PE (either one hour or two hours) without water. Which was fine. If you've drank water at lunch you don't really need it.

We still have water fountains but not as many. There are also quite a lot of payphones, but the minimum is 60p for a call and you only get a few minutes, plus some of them have the internet (a limited version of it). One box I know has free calls which is weird. Free calls to all landlines (not international ones). Then it has a charging station and wifi.

Pay phones gone in my area

boston

If I crashed and burned in long runs in old days I used to rely on pay phones to call for a ride no more tho

I typically don't drink any water on runs less than 20 miles. It's hilarious, this hiking group I was in, the leader was like if you aren't carrying at least 32 oz of water we won't let you come on this 5 mile round trip hike. I was like wift? Not only are they ridiculous but want to police everyone else?

Lol, that's like when they were on about putting a water station in the 3000m.

I dont know how some people ever get through a really tough track work out with a belly full of water. I would spew like a damn fountain.

Do you know when Gatorade was invented?

Michael Jordan MADE Gatorade and Nike. There is no sports industry before him.

Anybody seriously using "woke" is a loser.

We all took turns drinking from a hose next to the bathroom. One year my folks bought me a thermos and I would take the lid off, fill it with my cooler water and give it to my friends.

It completely depends on how warm it is and how much you are sweating. In the winter I am fine drinking about 25-30 ounces a day. In the summer I need about twice that amount plus electrolytes. I agree that water fountains are becoming less and less prominent. I used to rely on them during my runs and now I carry my own water because most of the fountains I pass are broken or turned off.