It’s getting hot out there. Whether you’re channeling your inner Serena Williams on the tennis court or summoning your best pull-up jumper ala Steph Curry with the basketball, you need to stay hydrated. The best way of doing so, in our less-than-humble opinion: Mountain Valley Spring Water.
We’re not saying Mountain Valley will make you the greatest of all time — but we’re not not-saying it, either. Some of the world’s best athletes have sipped from the crisp, purely sourced goodness that is Mountain Valley, including baseball icon Babe Ruth and boxing legends Sugar Ray Robinson and Muhammed Ali.
As the greats know, when it comes to fueling tough workouts, what you drink matters. Here are four reasons why, for healthful athletic hydration, Mountain Valley Spring Water remains undefeated.
The best water for workouts — because it’s refreshing
After so many miles/laps/reps, your body needs to be rehydrated and refreshed. Your mind and palate do, too. Mountain Valley Spring Water has proved, time and time again, to be the most delicious and refreshing spring water in the United States. Just ask the judges at the Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting.
The annual event brings together more than 100 waters from around the country and the world. Since the tasting’s inception 30-plus years ago, Mountain Valley has garnered 19 honors, including multiple gold medals, thus making Mountain Valley the most award-winning bottled water in the U.S.
That’s great for us. It’s even better for your workouts.
If you want to drink more water, if you want to stay hydrated through every backhand, every serve, every free throw, then having the most deliciously crisp spring water by your side certainly helps. Think of Mountain Valley like a bag of potato chips, only far healthier — once you sip, you can’t stop.
Unlike sports drinks, which are often loaded with sugar and highly processed chemical sweeteners, Mountain Valley Spring Water is, quite simply and wonderfully, just water at its finest and freshest. And, as we know so well, water is what the human body is made of and what it needs to thrive, in life and in workouts.
How proper hydration helps athletes:
- Water cushions joints allowing for greater flexibility and more speed
- Water is crucial for proper muscle function, including of the heart and lungs
- Proper hydration boosts endurance and helps athletes avoid cramps
- Properly hydrated lung tissue is more capable of absorbing oxygen from the air
- Dehydration can cause headaches and irritability, which can negatively impact mood and concentration
The best water for workouts — because it’s balanced
Yes, Mountain Valley Spring Water tastes great, but did you know our spring water is also great for you, your health and your athletic recovery?
Sourced from the same Ouachita Mountain spring for more than 150 years, Mountain Valley is water as nature intended it. The water found in each of our glass and aluminum bottles fell from the skies as rain and snow some 3,500 years ago. Slowly, over the course of centuries and millennia, that water filtered into granite-lined aquifers deep beneath the earth.
As those aquifers fill, our water pushes its way back up to the surface, across striations of limestone, quartz and marble that naturally infuse Mountain Valley Spring Water with trace minerals such as calcium, potassium and magnesium. These minerals give our water the crisp, refreshing flavor our fans (and those Berkeley Springs judges) love. These minerals also give our water a pH of 7.2 to 7.4, making it slightly alkaline — which is even better when it comes to fueling tough workouts.
Alkaline water has been shown to improve exercise-induced metabolic acidosis while also enhancing anaerobic exercise performance in athletes. Additionally, alkaline water may help balance the many processed and acidic foods that have become commonplace in modern diets.
And those trace minerals we mentioned, they offer much more than balance.
Calcium: Critical to bone health; may also protect the body against cancer, diabetes and high blood pressure
Potassium: Regulates fluid balance in the body, as well as muscle contractions, heartbeat, reflexes and many more functions
Magnesium: Helps to regulate blood sugar and may improve mood, sleep and — yes — exercise performance
The beauty of a mineral-rich water such as Mountain Valley Spring Water is that these water-soluble minerals are readily absorbed by the body, meaning they can help fuel your next jog, lift, run or whathaveyou, with ease.
The best water for workouts — because it’s portable
It’s easy to stay hydrated when your water can go wherever you go, and with Mountain Valley’s lineup of aluminum water bottles, our water can go anywhere.
Available in 16 ounce and 750 milliliter sizes, Mountain Valley Spring Water’s aluminum water bottles are lightweight, easy to carry and 100% recyclable. Filled with the same spring-fed, naturally sourced goodness for which Mountain Valley is famous, our aluminum bottles are perfect for on-the-go hydration — from pool to beach to boat, from golf course to tennis court to weightroom and everywhere in between.
Our aluminum water bottles won’t shatter. They won’t leak. They’re slim enough to fit in almost any pack, meaning they won’t weigh you, or your workout, down. Our aluminum water bottles are available by the case online, with Mountain Valley home delivery, via Amazon Shop Local and at retailers nationwide.
The best water for workouts — because Mountain Valley delivers to home or office
Water that’s crisp, refreshing, purely sourced, naturally balanced, slightly alkaline, mineral rich, award winning and able to go wherever you go? These are the many, many benefits Mountain Valley Spring Water can bring to your workouts and your life.
One more: You can have all this goodness delivered to your home or office with just a few clicks.
Whether it’s cases of Mountain Valley’s go-where-you-go aluminum water bottles or our exclusive 2.5 and 5-gallon glass water jugs — perfect for refilling whatever water bottle you love to work out with — home and office delivery of Mountain Valley Spring Water makes premium hydration incredibly easy.
If you’re hitting the gym in L.A., shooting hoops in NYC, hiking the hills of Texas, swimming laps in Miami, or doing any other workout in almost every city in between, you can have Mountain Valley Spring Water delivered directly to your doorstep. Save your time and energy for what really matters: becoming the greatest. Get started with home or office water delivery here.
