Well seeing as we are dealing with temps topping out at 115 or so right about now I figured I would chime in.
Light breakfast, plenty of fruit (watermelon and apples and such). No coffee or tea as they only dehydrate you.
Drink water starting at breakfast and continue to keep it on you. We have the 1 liter bottles are we are drinking at least one an hour.
We take breaks about 10-15 per hour depending on hard we are working and take them in the shade.
A nice boonie hat and some dark shades work wonders.
We really don't drink gatorade that much, water is much better, not as much sugar and such. If you do feel really dehydrated Pedialite is amazing and you can dilute with water.
Replenish some salts at lunch time by just using a little on your food, you really don't need salt tabs or the like.
Continue to drink water even at night (it sucks to get up and pee like 3-4 times at night but it's worth it when you aren't hurting the next day.
Oh and we don't work super hard at the max sun time (12-2ish) but we are out there from 0700 until around 1800 and our guys have been handling it great.
Just my 2 cents from sweet and sunny Iraq.
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