If you live in a place that experiences large temperature fluctuations throughout the year, you should be familiar with the impacts climate has on your physical performance.
Avoid These Five Costly Summer Training Mistakes
This Is Why Potassium Is So Important To Exercise Performance
Many physiological processes depend on certain electrolytes, including sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium. In this blog post, we delve into the importance of potassium to exercise performance.
Here’s Why Electrolytes Are Critical For Team Sport Athletes
Many SaltStick customers participate in endurance sports and recognize that electrolyte-replacement is a key part of performance. Perhaps less known is that hydration is equally important to team sport athletes.
Here Are Three Studies That Show Why Athletes Sweat More
As the temperature heats up, a familiar element of summer training is returning: sweat. In this blog post, we examine the science behind sweat rates in athletes, as well as the implications to your nutrition routine.
The Electrolyte Benefits of Seven Spring-Time Foods
Today marks the first full day of spring, and with the change in season, you will have the opportunity for more outdoor workouts, later days and best of all — spring foods.
Six Reasons Why You Are Constantly Thirsty
High levels of thirst plague endurance athletes who commonly exercise in the heat and humidity for several hours a day. However, hydration can be a tricky thing, and it can sometimes seem as if your thirst never goes away – despite frequent urination.
Here’s How to Enjoy Your Winter Workouts
In our last blog post, we listed seven benefits you can derive from winter workouts, ranging from a cardiovascular workout to increased mental toughness. Sometimes, just knowing about the benefits is enough to get out the door in February. Other times, you need an extra push.
SaltStick: An Industry Leader for Banned Substance Testing
In light of recent announcements related to two professional triathletes who tested positive for banned substances, we want to reassure our customers and athletes that SaltStick products have been banned-substance-free since our start, more than 10 years ago. Earlier in February, two professional triathletes announced they had tested positive for ostarine, a banned substance under …
2016 Recap: 7 Reasons We’re Grateful to the SaltStick Community
All of us at SaltStick can look back on 2016 and smile with pride. This year was filled with big events for our company, and we’d like to take a second to share them with you.
“Tennis Is a Grueling Sport.” SaltStick-Sponsored Athlete Daniel Nguyen on the Work Needed to Be a Pro
At SaltStick, we are proud to sponsor top athletes in the fields of triathlon, running, tennis and more. We are inspired by our athletes and admire the hard work and time they have dedicated to achieving success.