Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Cool Tips for Your Summer Workout


Summer time heat and humidity shouldn’t prevent you from working out? You just need to take precautions. To stay safe and prevent dehydration and heat-related illnesses, follow these suggestions: 


1- Exercise in the morning or evening, when temperatures are lower. In addition, you could check the weather prediction. It's a good idea not to participate in rigorous outdoor exercise sessions when the heat index registers in the dangerous zone.  Avoid intense exercise throughout the hottest part of the day time, which usually is somewhere between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. And make sure to exercise in shaded areas whenever you can.


2- If you would like (or need) to be exercising in scorching conditions, do not do it before you become familiar with such intense activity. Try to invest only a short time per day in the very hot conditions for the first couple of weeks and after that increase time progressively each day.


3- Put on very little clothing as possible, but make sure it’s not too tight and doesn’t chafe. Wear light, loosened appropriate clothes that can breath. Natural cotton is definitely the ideal choice. In case your outdoor activity produces a great deal of sweat, take into account clothing that's made to wick the perspiration away. Furthermore, you could deflect sun with white or light colors along with a hat.


4- Use sunscreen. Even though you work out at the beginning of the morning or later in the day, if the sunlight can reach then you definitely you will get burned. Not merely is a too much sun is bad on the skin and very damaging but it also stops your bodies power to stay cool. In addition, you could use water-resistant sun screen lotion (re-apply it hourly).
 


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