Summer is in full swing and so is the heat. Time to literally get a good sweat on to take advantage of the hot weather so you can shed those extra pounds and up your fitness game. But training in the heat is no fun unless it's in the water. What’s more is, the heat presents a lot of ‘challenges’ and, like all challenges, we can rise to meet them or we can allow them to limit and even defeat us.
Fortunately, we Humans are supremely robust and adaptable. Millions of years of Human Evolution have shaped us to have an innate robustness and unique adaptations which confer several advantages in the heat. Adaptations like having a lot less hair feathers or fur, sweat glands and a single stomach, acid & bile digestive tract instead of a multi-compartment one made for fermentation.
So while we are uniquely adaptable to the heat, the heat still presents challenges especially in the modern man-made world where the conveniences of air conditioning, relatively sedentary lifestyles and highly processed and easily accessible food have undone our evolutionary adaptations and tolerance to the heat. This presents modern man with these three challenges:
One: Acclimating to the heat
Two: Fueling in the heat
Three: Hydration
17 июн 2024
