Forward of the 2024 Paris Olympics, the Worldwide Olympic Committee suggested athletes to acclimatize to scorching climate with a method referred to as warmth coaching.
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Forward of the 2024 Paris Olympics, the Worldwide Olympic Committee suggested athletes to acclimatize to scorching climate with a method referred to as warmth coaching.
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Over the following week, forecasts undertaking 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, a lot of whom spent weeks making ready for a sweltering Paris Olympics, by coaching within the warmth to get their our bodies used to scorching, humid climate.
However warmth coaching is not only for aggressive athletes. It is beneficial for folks within the army and those that work outside in scorching climate — and it might 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 prepare — and why doing so would not decrease the issues of a warming local weather.
Try 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 information. The engineer was Kwesi Lee.
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