
How Cold Affects Exercise
The Real Science of Sport Podcast
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The Temperature of the Legs of a Polar Bear
Is there an optimal temperature that people can run a merithanat, for instance? Sim going to say 12 degrees celsius. Colder than that, s degrees, a theoretical one. And thi youre i that's probably right. The theoretical limit, they say, is like three and a half, four. That's cold, really cold. I think it has tobe cool, but not too cool, because it affects the body's ability to be able to operate. Eor they make sense that the fastest run is like the cold are right? Because they're generating them so much heat. Yes, the further back you move in the field, yes, the more
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