Why do people carry gallon jugs of water around woth them at the gym?

My jug of water weighs more then you pencil. Please join Planet Fitness where you belong.

He thinks he's seeing bodybuilders. He's not. That's just the start.

Blackpot wrote:

Pot meet kettle wrote:

Not true at all. There's so much wrong with the above it amazes me you could make that many mistakes in so few words.

He's not making those mistakes, he's just pointing them out.

Pot meet kettle wrote:There's a very good chance serious lifters think a skinny guy running 20 miles without hydrating, which may be possible but is unhealthy by all standards, is pretty weird.

Pot meet kettle wrote:

[quote]junior samples wrote:

The body builder types do it because they think drinking lots of water will help them "cut weight". Why they think they need to carry around a gallon jug to accomplish this is beyond me.

Pot meet kettle wrote:

There's so much wrong with the above it amazes me you could make that many mistakes in so few words.

That's funny, considering the clusterfvck of a sentence you wrote above. Oh, the irony in your username.

Meat Head douche combo in my gym is the gallon jug of water and wear Vibrams. Watching women Meat Heads is even more amusing.

The bottles are used to hold water.

People drink the water.

Or they splash eachother with it during homoerotic tickle fights.

Men looking at men's bodies is kinda ghey.

Please elucidate. Something tells me you're not a writer, or much of a reader.

lunges lunges wrote:

Pot meet kettle wrote:There's a very good chance serious lifters think a skinny guy running 20 miles without hydrating, which may be possible but is unhealthy by all standards, is pretty weird.

Pot meet kettle wrote:

[quote]junior samples wrote:

The body builder types do it because they think drinking lots of water will help them "cut weight". Why they think they need to carry around a gallon jug to accomplish this is beyond me.

Pot meet kettle wrote:

There's so much wrong with the above it amazes me you could make that many mistakes in so few words.

That's funny, considering the clusterfvck of a sentence you wrote above. Oh, the irony in your username.

Pot meet kettle wrote:

The guys you see walking around with gallons of water are generally serious weight lifters - and some serious weight lifter wanna bees. They do this to stay hydrated during their workout. They will generally have workouts that last two plus hours at times and subscribe to the very sound physiological precept that you should hydrate every 15 minutes or so during a workout.

Lets say their workout was 3 hours long - in that 3 hours you are saying they will lose a gallon of water (sweating and breathing) for which they will need to re-hydrate by drinking a gallon of water? 1.3 liters/hour? That's a serious amount of sweat. Almost unbelievable.

Look - I agree they are drinking water to hydrate - the choice of container is specifically a "look" thing and that's why they carry water in a gallon jug. It's to show that they are serious and real while other people at the gym are posers and don't work out hard enough to need a gallon of water.

I see a lot of the men and women show up with the jugs, often they are only half full - it's a look, that's all.

I've come close to carrying that amount. Certain supplements you take recommend taking them with a litre of water, and others like creatine probably require more.

it's always been my guess that the gallon carriers are on serious supplement stacks

Why do hotties carry gallon jugs of fat tissue around with them on the beach?

Bodybuilder. It's one word.

teenage wasteland wrote:

It's quite hilarious. I've completed 20 mile training runs without drinking a thing, but they need a gallon of water as they sit on the recumbent bike and staring at their phones or reading Cosmo.

I haven't noticed this at the gyms where I train, but if this is in fact a fad, I assume it's simply another mindless fad, like runners obsessing about training their "core", runners wanting to "avoid hypertrophy", gyms catering to "functional training", women going on vegan diets and "cleanses" to lose weight and "detox", bodybuilders wearing clown pants, etc.

Meathead sweathog - two words

Do they finish the entire jug during their workout? Probably not. Many people aim for a gallon of water per day for various reasons. It is just a rounded off number. By filling a gallon jug at the beginning of the day they don't have to worry about keeping track. They just drink throughout the day and make sure they finish the whole thing.

Pot meet kettle wrote:

Please elucidate. Something tells me you're not a writer, or much of a reader.

lunges lunges wrote:

That's funny, considering the clusterfvck of a sentence you wrote above. Oh, the irony in your username.

The sentence is awkward.

The section between the commas is long.

You could have left out the section between the commas and made it into another sentence.

This is what I came up with, and I am drunk.

Serious lifters likely think a skinny guy running 20 miles without hydrating is pretty weird. Yes, it may be possible to run 20 miles without hydrating, but many believe it is unhealthy.

brogan1 wrote:

Do they finish the entire jug during their workout? Probably not. Many people aim for a gallon of water per day for various reasons. It is just a rounded off number. By filling a gallon jug at the beginning of the day they don't have to worry about keeping track. They just drink throughout the day and make sure they finish the whole thing.

This.

Aiming for a gallon of water a day will help you lose weight. Mostly because if you are drinking water you are not drinking sugary drinks or confusing hunger for thirst. Also creatine users will need to drink lots of water.

The weight area of a gym tends to attract the fitness/health nut/gym freak. If you are training to improve your physique you are likely drinking about a gallon a day as well as eating clean. "The Jug" is a simple way to track water intake. I'm pretty good at math so I can add together multiple bottles and containers of various volumes so I was never a jug guy.

Leading up to my one bodybuilding show I drank 2-3 gal a day for 5 days then not a drop for 18 hours. Lost 5lbs in those 18 hours. Yes I peed a lot.

Alan

Don't body builder eat 12 eggs a day? I don't see the muscle heads carrying all the eggs around with them because they can't keep track of how many eggs they ate.

Pot meet kettle wrote:

He thinks he's seeing bodybuilders. He's not. That's just the start.

Blackpot wrote:

He's not making those mistakes, he's just pointing them out.

As soon as you enter a gym and put on an ounce, you're a bodybuilder. You should know that.

teenage wasteland wrote:

It's quite hilarious. I've completed 20 mile training runs without drinking a thing, but they need a gallon of water as they sit on the recumbent bike and staring at their phones or reading Cosmo.

I would say that shows your level of ignorance. A 20 miler without water could be a really bad idea.

Now as to the question: so they can tell how much water they are consuming.

I have some students who even mark off hours in the day to make sure they are drinking throughout the day.

Why do people carry gallon jugs of water around woth them at the gym?

Because that 3 minutes they spend doing "cardio" is really taxing for them.