Many countries experience recording high temperatures now, with heatwaves rolling in Canada and the US, and extreme heat warnings issued for the UK. That’s bad news if you want to keep running, whether you practice for an event or just maintain your fitness.
To find out how you can stay safe and comfortable when running in hot weather, Techradar speaks with two professional athletes who are used to staying active when the temperature rises.
Athlete Swiftwick Athlete Amanda Folland is a personal coach certified with the American College of Sports Medicine, and sports nutrition specialists with the Association of International Sports Sciences.
“Exercising in the heat can be complicated,” he said, “often athletes enter their training with the intention of purpose, but if not well hydrated and fueled before, those goals may be saturated by heat.
“As a coach and athlete himself, I carefully took a lot of water throughout the day, salt tablets before my practice and if more than 45 minutes one more to make sure my body into the sodium / pump of potassium was in our hearts.”
Foland explained that your choice of clothes is also important. “Other tips that I live by wearing light, loose, comfortable wicking teeth, take bottled water during training, and spray your head with water as needed to keep your body temperature lower.”
Earlier this year, under the Armor released a new ISO-cold sports sports line made of flat acrylic fibers with a layer of titanium dioxide. After testing some of your own clothes, we can say that it certainly makes a difference, but works best to cool you after running you finish. The fabric is very effective when saturated, either with sweat or extra water from your bottle.
Foland also encourages its athletes to keep sweat. “It requires heating pre / post practice to overcome how much water is needed in the exercise based on the weight lost during the session,” he said.
“In connection with how much time spent in heat is also important. Just like increasing mileage, increasing heat duration requires time, slow and steady with lower intensity attention and realizes your body signal sends you.”
