There is a huge difference between heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Heat exhaustion your body feels hot, and your core temperature gets to around 100. Heat stroke you feel cold and your yep goes above 104. They’re wildly different in symptoms. Beyond that poring cold water on someone in heat exhaustion state only taxes the nervous system more, and can actually send them into shock. If you’re an athlete out there in this kind of heat for the first time it’s important to know the symptoms, and if you start to feel cold call 911 asap. Take it from someone who actually had heat stroke. I was in the hospital for 2 days on an IV, and ended up with brain damage that gave me about 2 years of ocular migraines that took forever to get me on blood thinners for to fix.
We are sorry to hear that. Everything we do we make sure is healthy and safe for our athletes, and we thank you for sharing your experience and probably warning about this to someone else in the audience.🙏
Wishing you guys the best! Love you! Tip, take it or not. Freeze wet hats, socks, shirts each night and try to zip-bag them and keep cold to frozen till just before outdoor events. Wet hair too. The cooler you can keep your head and feet the better! Shirts too! It's 💯 worth it. You just can't acclimate to that heat that fast so please! Just consider a great performance or heatstroke. It's sooo worth it!
That's how we're gonna get ready next time!! We've learnt from that experience, so next time, the heat won't hit us that bad. Thank you for all those tips!!
If you can use them, Mission cooling towels are the best. They have to be the Mission brand. They were made for athletes. Those are the only ones I find work. You just wet them, snap it and go.
Awesome videos leading up to the games! Ice slurry drinks is another option to consider during the games to manage overheating! .. tons of research on it - here’s one meta analysis: Zhang, Y., 2019. Optimizing ice slurry ingestion for endurance performance in the heat: A meta-analysis. Journal of Anthropology of Sport and Physical Education, 3(1), pp.3-8.
Our coach Chris loves you guys share your research with us! He is always reading these investigation reports to improve our athletes training. We will definitely show him. Thank you!!!
