Beat the warmth like an Olympic athlete with the following pointers : Quick Wave : NPR

Forward of the 2024 Paris Olympics, the Worldwide Olympic Committee suggested athletes to acclimatize to scorching climate with a way known 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 way known as warmth coaching.

Natacha Pisarenko/AP

Over the subsequent 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 getting 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 really helpful for individuals within the army and those that work outdoor in scorching climate — and it might even be helpful for typically wholesome members of the general public.

Plus, we get into some essential caveats about who’s greatest positioned to warmth practice — 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 details. The engineer was Kwesi Lee.