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Playing in Hot Weather
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Playing in Hot Weather
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You will find this tip to be very useful if we ever get any hot weather 😁, and/or if you have a weight training routine that you are doing for general health or to help build swing speed.
When I was visiting my brother a few weeks ago in Florida, we played golf on a day when the heat index reached 105*. He had a lot of trouble after the round, he definitely was on the verge of heat exhaustion.
Of course it's important to stay hydrated in hot weather - that's a given - and here's a hot weather hack that will definitely help your game. My brother passed on doing what I did that day, but I fared well and he didn't.
He's now a believer.
What prompted today's article was not what I did on the course that day, it's what I have been doing for a couple years during my Monday - Wednesday - Friday strength training sessions.
At my age (born in 1946, do the math), I'm always looking for anything that can help me be as productive as I can during my strength training sessions. I want to get the most bang for my buck relative to the time I'm allotting for it.
I read an article on "palmar cooling", did my research, and ended up buying an "Anti-Fatigue (AF) Charge Bar" from AVA Cooling Technology. For the record - I'm getting nothing for this endorsement, I'm just totally sold on the concept and the product. Click through, then click on Learn More for some great information on how cooling technology can help improve performance by delaying fatigue.
Yesterday I read the newsletter article below published by Ava entitled
At AVA are obsessed with body temperature. It's weird, we know. However, we continue to be shocked at how little attention body temperature receives from both high level sports and industry. There is SO much research highlighting how rising body temperature decreases performance, increases mistakes and hurts productivity.
In this newsletter we wanted to highlight an interesting finding about what seems to be the "critical core temperature" of 104 deg Fahrenheit (40 deg C).
There are a few classic studies that investigated how our bodies would respond to exercise in different environments and if they would improve with a period of acclimatization. The studies investigated how long and at what body temperature the participants would reach complete exhaustion. One study found that participants cycling in a hot, dry environment could cycle for 48 minutes on day 1 before hitting exhaustion. That exhaustion happened at a body temperature of 104 deg F. On day 10 of this acclimatization study the participants could cycle for 80 minutes before reaching fatigue! However, the it was the same core temperature that caused them to stop, 104 deg F.
Other studies, in other environments have found the same results. No matter how acclimatized you are, no matter how fit you are, no matter how hydrated, rested or fed you are, the human body will reach exhaustion at roughly 104 deg F. Elevating your fitness can improve how hard you can work and for how long it takes to reach that temperature, but if you begin to approach that number, it's essentially game over.
What does this mean? It means you should take steps and deploy strategies to help yourself, your athlete, or your workforce to manage body temperature during the event (game, practice, workday, workout). Those strategies include exposing glabrous skin to a breeze. Holding a palm cooling device during breaks. Taking off a helmet, hat or gloves at every opportunity to allow the body to dump heat. People should be thinking and talking about temperature in terms of performance and recovery to the extent we do with nutrition, hydration, sleep, massage guns and training methods.
So what does this have to do with golf in hot weather?
Here's what I did to keep my body temperature down and my energy high when I played that round in the tropical heat with my brother.
- I stayed hydrated.
- I had a small soft sided cooler bag with 4 cans of soda pop in it, and a small ice pack.
- I drank two sodas, and some more water that I got on the course while we played. The two other sodas were used as a anti fatigue charge bar substitutes as follows:
in the cart as we rode between shots, I held a soda can (which was nice and cool) in each hand, and that pretty much re-invigorated me all day. When not holding the cans, I kept them close
to the ice pack in the cooler bag.
It worked wonders!
Try it, you'll like it!
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