Performance Process: Ice buckets and paint suits? How heat and cooling both aid performance
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Escape Collective
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🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
This week's episode of Performance Process delves deep into the topic of heat and how it can be both a powerful, free, and accessible training intervention and a major problem.
In the podcast, we speak to Chris Bloomfield-Brown, a performance engineer for most of his life, in everything motorsport to pro bike racing and with plenty of work in triathlon along the way. Chris is perhaps best known in the WorldTour peloton for his work in recent years with CORE, the company behind those small rectangular white sensors attached to almost every heart rate strap in the peloton.
We talk to Chris about all things heat training, cooling, and better warm-ups and dissect some of the adaption, acclimatisation, strain, and other terminology with regard to heat.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Performance Process everybody. I'm Kelly Frets joining |
| 0:16.7 | Ronan McLaughlin. Ronan we're talking about heat today. You're in a good |
| 0:21.8 | place for that actually actually, right now. |
| 0:24.0 | You're, I'm calling you up from, well, you're in the desert. |
| 0:28.0 | Yeah, I'm currently in Abbey Abbey, but I recorded this podcast in Ireland, which was very cold at the time before I went to |
| 0:35.4 | Australia which I thought would be very relevant and now I'm on my way back and |
| 0:40.0 | stopping over Nhaber so hot. So, hot, cold, all sorts. |
| 0:43.8 | Just a world traveler over there. |
| 0:45.6 | So we are, we're talking heat. |
| 0:47.5 | We're talking about heat training in particular. |
| 0:50.4 | Who is the guest today? why are we talking about this? |
| 0:55.0 | Well actually we're talking, yeah, heat training, heat adoption, the impact that heat has on performance, how to mitigate that, how to actually use |
| 1:06.4 | training in hot environments to further our performance and some of the ways of doing that and what you need to know about |
| 1:14.3 | implementing heat training into into your own training and how to benefit from it and |
| 1:18.8 | some of the sort of well just some of the potential side effects and some of the |
| 1:22.3 | dangers are around just it's not just as |
| 1:25.4 | it's not just as simple as hopping on a trainer and going as hard as you can |
| 1:27.7 | with the radiators turned on there's a little bit more science to it but it is |
| 1:30.7 | also probably one of the easiest cheapest and let's say effective I'm not |
| 1:36.2 | going to say most effective but effective ways of improving your performance so it's |
| 1:41.2 | something we've heard the pros during a lot of in recent times and |
| 1:45.6 | this episode goes into, yeah, heat training, heat adoption and why regardless of whether |
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