Welcome to the Get Fit Guys' quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Brock Armstrong, and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

If you've ever been on a tropical vacation and spotted someone wearing a three-piece suit

while looking cool as a cucumber while you sweat away in your shorts and your flip-flops,

you've probably actually wondered

about a thing called heat adaptation without even knowing it.

In my recent podcast, Is It Ever Too Cold to Exercise Outdoors, I mentioned some physiological

adaptations that were possible to get by training in hot conditions, and this idea seems to have piqued some of your curiosity.

I received a number of questions asking exactly what heat adaptation means, what the

benefits are, and how to go about getting them.

And I'll get to that in a moment, but first, I want to tell you a story.

A few years ago, I ran a marathon in Chicago in hopes of

qualifying for the Boston Marathon. I had trained hard, and I was prepared to give it my all,

and I was on pace to achieve my goal time, but the sun was getting high in the sky, and the

temperature was rising, and so was my heart rate. I was only nearing the halfway mark,

so there was no way I was going to drop my pace, so I dug deep and I pressed on. But then I

started to get worried as runner after runner in front of me dropped their pace and started dumping

more and more water over their heads at every single aid station. Finally, when a very formidable

runner that I'd been running near for about 20 kilometers suddenly careened wildly across the

road and then proceeded to face plant on the cement right in front of me, well, I decided it was

probably time to reconsider how hard I was willing to push for this Boston qualifier.

I finished the race, and after a lengthy lounge under a shady tree in the park, I got myself

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