P90X Reviews: A Complete Review on the P90X Workout System

If you’re doing the P90X workout, then you’re sweating. Chances are, in fact, that you’re sweating a lot! You may begin to get worried that you’re losing too much salt. After all, many sports drinks come with the “benefit” of sodium, and you may have seen marathon runners simply down a dose of salt partway through a race. Do you need to be worried about replenishing salt during your P90X program?

Probably not if your diet is anything like an average American’s diet is. The recommended dosage of sodium per person per day is five hundred milligrams. That, broken into every day language, is about a fourth of a teaspoon of salt. That’s right. All you really need per day is a fourth of a teaspoon of salt. The average American takes in about 4000 to 6000 milligrams of sodium per day. Just think about it. Every bit of salt that you have over a fourth of a teaspoon is more than you technically need. So unless you’re sweating, literally, buckets, you don’t need to worry that you’re losing “too much” salt during your workout. You do, however, need to worry about your overall nutrition while doing P90X. We say keep it simple and use P90X nutrition products, which were formulated to make sure that you’re getting everything that you need – including the right amount of sodium.

There are a couple of sodium “best practices” though that you may want to keep in mind:

Buy salt free or low sodium foods: Even if you don’t have a sodium problem, given how much unnecessary salt we take in each day, we should all be choosing the low sodium option.

Use sea salt: It tastes the same but has a slightly lower sodium ratio and is better for you.

Stay active! From the beloved P90X all the way through the Slim Series, if you’re sweating regularly then your sodium levels shouldn’t be as much of an issue for you. Keep active and keep your body cleansing itself through good, healthy sweat.

In short, chances are high that you don’t really need to worry about not having enough salt in your system, but making sure that you have a good, sweat-inducing workout as part of your daily routine can help reduce what is most likely already too  much salt in your diet!