Science Monday: Can You Drink As Much Water As Tom Brady?
And more importantly, should you??
Tom Brady, quarterback of the New England Patriots, widely considered to be one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, has a message for you: drink more water.
A lot more water. In fact, if you want to keep up with Brady’s own water intake, you’re going to need to consume 37 glasses of water per day.
That’s a lot of water.
How much? For context, imagine a gallon jug of water. Imagine you’re holding a gallon jug of water in each hand. Imagine that you drink BOTH of those gallons — and then you drink another third of one, just for kicks.
Or, if you’ve ever seen an office water cooler, complete with a blue five-gallon reservoir mounted on top? Imagine pouring out half of that — and then drinking the entire other half.
Where’s this come from? In a book he wrote in 2017, the Patriots six-time Superbowl champion stated that he drank ‘half his body weight in ounces [of water] each day, and double that amount when exercising.’ Brady states that he drinks up to 300 ounces of water each day when he exercises — that’s about 2.3 gallons.
Now, this definitely seems to be working for Brady; I don’t have even a single Superbowl ring, so I can’t challenge him on his results.
