Forward of the 2024 Paris Olympics, the Worldwide Olympic Committee suggested athletes to acclimatize to sizzling climate with a method known as warmth coaching.
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Forward of the 2024 Paris Olympics, the Worldwide Olympic Committee suggested athletes to acclimatize to sizzling climate with a method known as warmth coaching.
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Over the following week, forecasts challenge excessive warmth throughout a lot of the South, Midwest and components of the West. So, this episode, well being correspondent Pien Huang helps us take warmth coaching cues from Olympians, lots of whom spent weeks making ready for a sweltering Paris Olympics, by coaching within the warmth to get their our bodies used to sizzling, humid climate.
However warmth coaching isn’t just for aggressive athletes. It is really useful for individuals within the army and those that work outdoor in sizzling climate — and it may even be helpful for usually wholesome members of the general public.
Plus, we get into some vital caveats about who’s greatest positioned to warmth practice — and why doing so would not decrease the issues of a warming local weather.
Take a look at extra of Pien’s reporting on warmth coaching.
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This episode was produced by Hannah Chinn and edited by our showrunner, Rebecca Ramirez. Pien and Hannah checked the details. The engineer was Kwesi Lee.
