Sport with cool temperatures

Before the weather forecast for a wave of freezing cold during the coming days, it is essential to bear in mind a number of recommendations for preventing health hazards of all those who want to practice outdoor sports.

Some advice prepared by the centre of sports medicine of the supreme council for sports that serve to maintain an active and healthy life during the winter months, always ensuring the safety of and participants.

Tips to drill in cold climates

Before leaving home:

• Choose appropriate clothes. Use multiple layers of clothing that will allow you to put them or to subtract according to your needs with respect to the temperature.
• Check weather forecast. If you too wind, cold and damp, consider making the exercise of your home.
• Does a warming through appropriate progressive activity that enables you to be prepared or prepared for your training.
• Recalls hidratarte well before and during the exercise, although you have no sense of thirst.

While practices exercise:

• Ten snow and ice sidewalks for non-slipping and fall. Use resistant shoe and adherent with which you can apply well and avoid slipping.
• Recognizes the signs of hypothermia: escalogríos, drowsiness, low pulse, slow breathing and shallow, confusion, loss of coordination, etc.). A significant drop in temperature can lead to serious health problems.
• Always take advice for professionals and, in case of pathologies, consultation prior to your doctor.

• Bibliography:

- Castellani & et al., 2006. American College of Sports Medicine position stand: prevention of cold injuries during exercise. Medicine and science in sports and exercise, 38(11), 2012–2029.

- Carlson, 2012. Exercising in the cold. ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal, 16(1), 8-12.

- Gatterer et al., 2021). Practicing sport in cold environments: practical recommendations to improve sport performance and reduce negative health outcomes. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(18), 9700.