Re:How Heat Kills Cells
by iplaw on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @09:01AM
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I've heard similar things about athletic training while mildly overheated. Training while overheated promotes adaptations to increase the cooling efficiency of your body. These adaptations include increasing heart rate, circulation, blood plasma volume, etc. This, in turn, promotes improvements to endurance, ability to perform in both normal and overheated states, etc.
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The body is certainly capable of acclimatizing the high body temps. I don't have the source, but I remember reading that Israeli tank soldiers (who were fighting from inside a tank in the desert) had body temperature of 101 - 102F and were completely fine. At that body temperature most people would start to feel pretty awful.
That's intriguing. Where might one be able to read more about that?
I can't remember what journal I was reading, but I was able to quickly find a fluff article with some decent information [1] that happens to mention an on-point cycling study [2].
For me, this involves training outside in the Texas summer heat (100F+) with plain water. When I race, it is usually earlier in the day (80-90F) and I sometimes use ice socks in my jersey and ice water in my bottles to keep my core temperature down.
[1] http://blog.airiarunning.com/heat-training-does-it-boost-run...
Re:How Heat Kills Cells
by galfarragem on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @01:23PM
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That would corroborate long distance runners from Kenya and Ethiopia.