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Hydration Status of Football Players during Consecutive Days of Training in Finote Selam, North-West Ethiopia
Background: Dehydration has a negative impact on both sport performance and health. Football players are exposed to intense training and competition workloads and are highly susceptible to dehydration. The objective of this study was to determine hydration status of football players with different assessment methods at Damot Town football Club. Methods: The research design was an observational study design without any type of intervention on the study variables. Urine samples were collected from the competitors three days before to the competition, both before and after their training sessions. Urine specific gravity (USG), measured by refractometry index, and urine color analysis were used to determine the level of hydration. The players’ sweat rate, sweat loss, fluid intake and body mass loss were also calculated. Results: Eighteen young male football players age 23.3 (2.3), height 1.73m (0.04), and body weight 68.19kg (4.95) were participated in the study. The average values for all samples were sweat loss (3.17L (1.7); sweat rate L/h (1.29 (0.31), percent of body mass loss (3.72 (0.86), and urine specific gravity 1.021 mc3 (0. 007). Based on USG results, 11 (61.11%) and 12 (66.7 %) of participant players had serious hydration before and after training respectively. Conclusion: As a result of this study, the majority of players were hypo-hydrated prior to and after each training day. The study confirmed that the hydration status of players had siginficant differences among the three days of training. In general, the high incidence of football players beginning training with hypo hydrated or dehydrated after training suggests that individualized hydration strategies may be of benefit.
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