complaining about it, so earlier i spoke to professor 0llie jay who has worked earlier i spoke to professor 0lliejay who has worked with various sporting organisations, including the australian open. what is the impact of this heat on elite athletes? so the human body is always striving to maintain am internal body temperature of around about 37 degrees celsius, and we have around about a three celsius buffer away from getting levels of heat stress that can be quite dangerous to the average person. but these athletes are very well prepared for these types of conditions so their conditioning will really help them be quite resilient to these particular conditions. with that said, we might see heat related reductions in performance for particularly for long endurance activities and we also might see instances of heat illness occurring in some athletes. you talked about those athletes training to get used to this kind of heat. what kind of things do they do in preparation? well, most a
you talked about those athletes training to get used to this kind of heat. what kind of things do they do in preparation? well, most athletes will expose themselves to the conditions that they re going to be playing in in advance of a particular tournament, so i would imagine that most of the competitors in tokyo, for example, would have sought places to train for at least a couple of weeks in advance of coming to the games in an area that is hot and humid and then that would induce the physiological adaptations that will help them better cope with extreme heat. sojust to give you a quick idea of what those adaptations are, you d have a lower resting body core temperature so you have a bit more of a buffer before you get to those really dangerous levels of core temperature, there s an increase in the blood volume, so that lowers the amount of strain on the heart for a given exercise intensity, and also it increases the maximum amount that an athlete can sweat as well, so those types of
in some athletes. you talked about those athletes training to get used to this kind of heat. what kind of things do they do in preparation? well, most athletes will expose themselves to the conditions that they re going to be playing in in advance of a particular tournament, so i would imagine that most of the competitors in tokyo, for example, would have sought places to train for at least a couple of weeks in advance of coming to the games in an area that is hot and humid and then that would induce the physiological adaptations that will help them better cope with extreme heat. sojust to give you a quick idea of what those adaptations are, you d have a lower resting body core temperature so you have a bit more of a buffer before you get to those really dangerous levels of core temperature, there s an increase in the blood volume, so that lowers the amount of strain on the heart for a given exercise intensity, and also it increases the maximum amount that an athlete can sweat as well,
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