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Heat Acclimation: Why You Feel Slower—and How to Race Better in the Heat
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Training consistently but suddenly feeling slower? Your normal pace is harder to hold, your heart rate is higher, and every workout seems to take more out of you.
That does not necessarily mean you are losing fitness. Heat can mask the fitness you have built while adding stress your body must learn to manage. In this episode, Coach Justin and Coach Katie explain how heat acclimation works, how to prepare for hot and humid conditions, and how to build heat exposure into training without compromising recovery.
What You’ll Learn
Why heat makes your normal pace feel harder even…
The skinny
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