subject: Act In The Right Way To Reduce Body Heat [print this page] Wear as little as you canWear as little as you can. Even if you wear round brought short sleeves, it will cover nearly 40% of your body. A dress in light color is required, for it can resist the sunshine.
If conditions permit, spread some water on your body, it would be great ,and the effect turns out better when the water is cooler. This will benefit your sweat function. When it is warm, I would like run along the river Kenaz. As long as hot occurs to me, I stop running, jump into the river, and dip myself in the river (but you are not suggested to drink the water in the river). During the competition, if you are given some water beyond your need, you can drink as much as possible, then for the rest water, sprinkle it onto your body. (According to the Dr Clark, who works in the national medical institute in London, when people are running, the temperature of all the parts of the body tends to increase, and the thigh increases the most. Doing in this way, a better capacity for running will come to you, but for some runners, some bubbles would sparkle on the wet feet.
Spend time as little as you can in warming up. We have indicated before that the limbering-up activities would increase the extra body heat which is of course beyond your need. (Incidentally, the Western Kentucky University conducts a study, and, on the basis of this research, it proves that the ability to resist heat and recover after heated won't be weakened by the long hair, even if the athletes have a long hair to the shoulder.
The above tips have been written down into a pamphlet, and it has been sent to the athletes, who are going to join the marathon race. In an article named the medical facts you should know, it says, the problems about hot: these problems usually happen under the hot, humid, or hot and humid climate which make people easily lack water and salt, even have the body temperature increase to a dangerous level. To avoid this situation, the athletes had better take exercise for a week in the warm climate, on the beginning day for the game, the runners should have breakfast before AM.10 (the Boston Marathon game usually starts at noon), and some salt can be added to the breakfast or, one or two cup of very salty broth can be drank. (Take salt before the race would cause nausea). In the course of the game, every time passing by a site supplying water and food, you'd better have two or three ounces of water. It is too late for you to drink when you feel thirsty.
Not everyone is troubled by heat problems. Seeming to have some unique ability to protect themselves form heat, even when it is midsummer, some people still can run very well, however, for the other people, the running speed would reduce dramatically as long as it is hot.
Generally, one's bulk decides his or her ability to resist heat. In the hot days, there is no advantage for a person with a big weight, because such people have less skin surface area to eliminate heat. Besides, Fat impedes hot scattered outside. However, in hot days, the gap among the abilities of running for different people is so big that it is just beyond the imagination; Maybe the best explanation is that we each person are not exactly the same.
Humidity itself is not a problem. When we see it as an obstacle, we are taking the difficulties it brings to the runners in the hot climate into consideration. With the humidity one hundred percent and without wind, it is difficult to make the sweat evaporate. In this case, the heat is beyond your ability to resist it, and this is harmful to you. You can apply a wet bubble thermometer to judge to what degree the problems aroused by humidity have reached. A temperature higher than seventy is bad, as this indicates more difficulty in the game. If the temperature is more than eighty degrees, then whatever sports you are engaged in, this has nearly reached the ceiling.
