Hydrate. Breathe. Sleep. Repeat.

"For me, this partnership was a no brainer because I’ve always looked at sleep as one piece of a much bigger performance puzzle.
You can have the perfect nighttime routine, but what you do during the other 16 hours of your day still matters. How you train, what you eat, when you get sunlight, how you manage stress and, probably one of the most overlooked pieces, how well you hydrate.

That’s become even more real for me since I started running.

I came from a football and strength background, so running was never exactly my first love. But the more I’ve gotten into it, the more I’ve realized how quickly the fundamentals expose themselves. You know pretty fast when you didn’t sleep well. You know when you’re under hydrated. And you definitely know when you can’t breathe.
That’s where this partnership really clicked for me.

Re-Lyte helps support the hydration side of performance. We lose water and electrolytes through sweat, and that becomes increasingly important as training gets longer, harder or happens in the heat. Electrolytes like sodium, potassium and magnesium are critical for maintaining fluid balance, nerve signaling and normal muscle function. Even relatively small changes in hydration status can impact things we care about as athletes like perceived effort, cognition and physical performance.

Then there’s breathing.

Our Second Wind Nasal Strips are something I wear constantly when I run because they mechanically open the nasal passages and reduce resistance to airflow through the nose. Nasal breathing also helps warm, humidify and filter the air you breathe and increases exposure to nitric oxide produced in the nasal passages, which plays an important role in vascular function.

So when I’m heading out for a run, Re-Lyte and Second Wind have become two really simple tools in my routine. One helps me stay on top of fluids and electrolytes. The other helps me feel like I can actually freaking breathe.

Then we come back to sleep.

Sleep is where so much of the adaptation to training actually happens. It supports muscle recovery, immune function, hormone regulation, learning and memory. If we’re going to ask our bodies to perform at a high level during the day, we have to give them the environment to recover at night.

That’s also why I’ve personally been a fan of Re-Lyte. I’m pretty particular about the products I use and even more particular about the brands we align Dream with. Re-Lyte keeps it simple. You’re getting a strong electrolyte profile, quality ingredients and Redmond Real Salt without turning hydration into some 37 ingredient science experiment.

And that philosophy feels very similar to what we’re building at Dream.

I’m a huge believer that the boring fundamentals are usually the things that move the needle the most. Get sunlight. Move your body. Hydrate. Breathe well. Sleep really freaking well. Then wake up and do it again.

To me, Re-Lyte, Second Wind and our sleep products aren’t three random things thrown into a bundle. They represent the entire performance cycle.

Hydrate so you can perform. Breathe so you can move. Sleep so you can recover.

Then wake up and do it all over again."