Professional and college football has been on the last couple weeks and I have been repeatedly frustrated with these athletes having to come off the field because of muscle cramps.
Growing up we all experience muscle cramps at some point in time. And after we got the cramps we all learned that if we hydrate consistently for 24-48 hours before we perform any exhaustive physical activity that we will be fine. With this I can not believe how many big time college football players and professional football players have been hurting their team by having to come out of the game because of muscle cramps. It is inexcusable to me that these players are not able to just drink water for 48 hours prior to competition. Not only is it not hard to do, but it will help improve these athletes performance by not suffering fatigue as easliy because of dehydration.
The question then is who's ultimately responsible for making sure that these guys are doing all that they can to be in optiamal shape for their games? Obviously the players share any accountability dolled out to anyone else but is it also the job of the team trainers? The coachs? Someone inside of these programs either needs to educate these guys on how to stay hydrated or needs to make sure that these guys are taking in fluids every two hours starting 48 hours before competition to prevent dehydration and help increase these athletes performance.
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