The first four weeks of football practice is the most critical time for heat stroke. When temperatures get higher, when practices got longer, that's when risk goes up. We would shorten practice, we would take equipment off and increase rest breaks in order to allow athletes to continue practising. The key component was that we set up perimeters that said that as the environment got hotter,. because we knew that that was the most important, a influential factor. So 's alsoaalsois called sation, il thesationan cosi ag all, this guy came to you a few months ago, wit, all this information and ataplus science.
How do you prevent a heat stroke? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly learn about stopping heat illness deaths and the challenges of increasing heat waves with kinesiologist, Bud Cooper, and climate scientist, Radley Horton.
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