Working Out In The Heat
We’ve all been there: a hot gym on a hot day, when the air conditioning has broken down and all we have to cool us is a bottle of water and a towel. Whether you’re on the treadmill or in the powerlifting pit, the heat is tough. Researchers want to help fix that.
German researchers conducted a study in which they examined the effects of several different temperature regulation methods on exercise performance and endurance in the heat.
To test the effects of the pre-exercise and warm-up techniques on exercise performance and endurance, researchers had 20 male participants run on a treadmill until exhaustion a total of three times, with 5 days between each bout. During these sessions, subjects either warmed-up prior to the test, or cooled down their temperatures by wearing a cooling vest for 20 minutes while sitting still.
Researchers found that the overall exercise performance and endurance of the study subjects who wore the cooling vest were dramatically superior to those who warmed-up prior to the exercise test.
This is a potentially breakthrough study for bodybuilders, because it shows clearly that cooling your core body temperature prior to exercise instead of warming up can dramatically increase your performance and endurance, letting you work harder, longer and with more intensity.
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