These are based on the intensity of your workouts:

1. Sedentary = 2 Liters a day
2. Moderate = 2.5 Liters a day
3. Heavy = 3 Liters a day

I came up with these values knowing that our body loses about 10 cups (or about 2.5 Liters) of fluids through urine, breathing, sweating and bowel movements every day. and understand that 20% of our fluid intake comes from the foods we eat. so these are guidelines to simply replace what you lose every day.

Soooo…

• if you’re not working out right now and you don’t intake about 2 Liters of fluids a day, then this alone may account for your feelings of sluggishness and laziness.

• if you’re working out 2-3 times a day, but you’re not taking in about 2.5 Liters of fluids a day, then this may account for your inability to workout more consistently.

• if you’re working out 5 days a week and not taking in 3 Liters of fluids a day, then this may account for your eventual burnout (if it didn’t happen already).

“1 pound of muscle requires your body to burn up to 50 extra calories a day just to maintain that muscle.” – The Abs Diet

“Researchers at the National Institutes of Health found that men who ate twice as many calories in a day as they normally did increased their metabolism by 9% in the 24-hour period that followed” – The Abs Diet (103)