15 Minutes: Heat Stress

15 Minutes: Heat Stress

Many high school athletes begin training for the coming football season during the peak of summer’s heat and humidity. Since 1995, sports scientists have seen a dramatic increase in the number of heat-related deaths, especially during the first days of practice. Is there a relationship between football uniforms and heat stress? Larry Kenney, Ph.D., is Penn State professor of physiology and kinesiology at Noll Physiological Research Center and president of the American College of Sports Medicine. www.acsm.org

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