Stay hydrated during football camps and summer heat.

With football camps gearing up  around here while the temperature is heating up, I thought this appropriate to share.

I have an athletic and personal trainer in my Shaklee business with me. She started using the Shaklee Pure Performance Hydration drink with her athletes to help with their hydration, stamina and energy. She also knew it to be a safe product, containing nothing artificial in the way of colors, dyes or sweeteners.

 Here is her story: 

As a high school athletic trainer, football season is exciting, busy, and full of CRAMPS! 

Following the first game of 2010, I was as exhausted as the players.  During the game I had six of our top players cramping on the sidelines, which meant a lot of stretching out their cramps. The coaches were frustrated, anxious for the players to get back in the game. The players would go back on the field, only to cramp again and be carried back off. 

After using enormous amounts of mustard, pickle juice, and ice bags the game was finally over and everyone was headed for a weekend full of DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness).

I knew we could not go through a third season of this. The first two season as athletic trainer for the high school football team was full of cramping and other issues.  No matter how much I reminded the athletes to drink water and eat healthy there was only so much I could regulate.  The electrolyte drinks that they were using were not helping, and they were so full of sugar.

I knew there had to be an answer and so I turned to Shaklee Performance.  I knew that Shaklee was a very reputable company that was backed by science and research. I had heard about Performance and how it was created for stamina, hydration, and endurance.

After asking the president of the football booster club for support/money, we were ready to try it at the next game. The booster club president, along with the other people involved, had decided it was time to try something new. 

The next Friday game we began to implement what became fondly called “the drink” by the team, coaches, and parents.  We began a regimen of approximately 6-12oz of Performance following warm-ups. During the time on the field the water girl kept 4 out 6 of her bottles filled with it so that when she went on the field the boys had access to rehydrate faster, along with 4-6 bottles available on the sidelines at all times. During halftime Performance was available in 6oz cups, along with having water available at all times also. 

Performance was a success!!!  I did not spend ANY TIME stretching out cramps ALL football season!  My attention was able to be given to the athletes with more serious needs, and to the injuries on the field. 

Our team had one of the best high school football records they have had in years, and even made it to the second round of play-offs!  We had great quality athletes with amazing talent, and thanks to Performance those athletes played their best 100% of the time.

Performance is not just for football. My boys who play hockey at a high level use this and the other sports nutrition products in the Shaklee Pure Performance Line.  They love that it is powdered and can be used in their big water bottles for practices and games. My ten year old started taking the energy chews to games to take while getting dressed in the locker room . He said other kids were bring Gatorade chews and he'd rather take the Shaklee ones....As a busy mom...who is often tired...I love the chews as they really help keep me focused and more aware . We use them for long car rides and road trips. 

Stay hydrating in the heat with lots of water but remember you can replace the electrolytes you lose with sweating with water alone. Try the Pure Performance drink from Shaklee .....enjoy them frozen as popsicles, too. 

Make some smart choices each day and Stay healthy my friends.