Heat, Humidity and HR based (aka MAF) Training
This is one topic I wanted to touch upon since onset of summer but could not manage to do so due to other commitments and priorities. Finally, I'm here with some thoughts which are particularly with respect to MAF based heart rate (HR) training in hot and humid environment. In order to understand it in a better way, lets divide this problem (not really a problem!) further into below sections and solve it meticulously: Heat/Humidity impact on our heart Should we tweak our basic training strategy? Handling hot/humid weather Adversity or opportunity? Key Take-aways Heat/Humidity impact on our heart HEAT: Its proven fact that sizzling temperature in the summer (or due to sauna bath, sun bath on sea beach etc :) ) forces our dear heart to work harder. For every single degree rise in our internal temperature, heart beats 8-12 times more in a minute and as a runner or endurance athlete it hurts us, doesn't it, specially when we're doing MAF traing ( or HR ba...