New genius training idea: Set home thermostat to 85° F

In theory, this may sound like a good idea. but this will likely just make you feel like crap all day.

And you will spend most of your time sweaty.

Might be useful to warm up quicker before a run, especially when it’s cold outside. Also prepare to get a hefty heating bill.

Depending on the weather you're trying to acclimate to. Set it to 110. Screw it.

I basically already do this because I'm too cheap to use AC in the summer or heating in the winter.

I just wake up feeling horrible and dehydrated in the summer.

In the winter it's so cold I have trouble falling asleep.

I also do 100 sit-ups, 100 push-ups, 100 air squats, and a 10k run each day, as part of my training. I never miss a day...ever.

I recently lost all my hair...but now I hit hard as fuk. I win every fight with just one punch...It's actually quite boring.

To be clear, you need to do this for a whole year without missing a single day to get my same results.

Hardloper wrote:

If heat acclimation is similar to altitude training, then instead of moving to altitude or buying a generator, just slowly crank the thermostat until you are super heat adapted. Has anyone tried this?

Research showed that using a heat chamber (hot room at approx 40 deg C), spinning very easy (I think about 60% of max HR) 5 times 50min a week, for 5 weeks showed the same adaptations as 6 weeks of altitude training camp. So actually that can give a boost similar.

A point was that it should be easy easy and no intensity and it is in addition to the normal training. The thing is to increase the blood volume and the hemo content. If you are motivated, I would try since the research was very clear in the results.

This result is actually used by professional cyclists and they have developed a heat suit to maintain that heat effect.

Later research of the same group showed that this heat suit had the same effect as a heat chamber. So it is the internal temperature of the body that is key and not necessarily the temperature of the inhaled air or any part of the training environment. I guess it is not hard to dress up in a warm room, doing easy training.

These guys were cyclists, and they did spinning, but as far as I understand this was general adaptations from the body on the blood volume and quality due to the heat effect and not adaptations in the specific cycling (or running) muscles.

Hardloper wrote:

If heat acclimation is similar to altitude training, then instead of moving to altitude or buying a generator, just slowly crank the thermostat until you are super heat adapted. Has anyone tried this?

Actually, I have invested in a virtual cycling trainer and I live in a cold climate (Norway) and it is just during the best summer days that it is hot to run outside (above 20 dg C). When cycling indoors I reach much higher internal temperatures with a lot of sweat even at below 20deg C room temperatures, so why should I not just dress a lot and simulate hot conditions? I have no problem with training in hotter weather and when it is autumn, winter and spring, I adapt AWAY from hotter conditions and I am not very prepared for heat. I should practice all week when I cycle at hot conditions then, I guess the blood quality could increase some at least.

Hardloper wrote:

If heat acclimation is similar to altitude training..

If sleeping in a warm bed is similar to training at 7000 feet...

Hurno wrote:

To be clear, you need to do this for a whole year without missing a single day to get my same results.

No the added blood volume and higher hemo concentration do not need daily maintenance. But maybe several times a week? Some cycling pro teams knows since they maintain it through use of heat suits, for example when recovering immediately after a long competition day in Tour de France.

Genius plan wrote:

Hardloper wrote:

If heat acclimation is similar to altitude training..

If sleeping in a warm bed is similar to training at 7000 feet...

It is about training in heat, not sleeping :-)

Jon Arne Glomsrud wrote:

Hurno wrote:

To be clear, you need to do this for a whole year without missing a single day to get my same results.

No the added blood volume and higher hemo concentration do not need daily maintenance. But maybe several times a week? Some cycling pro teams knows since they maintain it through use of heat suits, for example when recovering immediately after a long competition day in Tour de France.

When did you become a hematologist? You have no idea what you're talking about.

runne wrote:

Might be useful to warm up quicker before a run, especially when it’s cold outside. Also prepare to get a hefty heating bill.

Bundle up when you run in cold weather, so you sweat.

I tried it one year. I saved two weeks of heat adaptation. Considering hot weather lasts four months, it didn't do much.

I always made it a point to run indoors on a treadmill at least once a week while training for a spring marathon for exactly this reason.

I started this "Treadmill Tuesday" practice after getting pummeled by a 70 degree spring day marathon following a training cycle where my morning runs were rarely if ever north of 45.

Genius plan wrote:

Jon Arne Glomsrud wrote:

No the added blood volume and higher hemo concentration do not need daily maintenance. But maybe several times a week? Some cycling pro teams knows since they maintain it through use of heat suits, for example when recovering immediately after a long competition day in Tour de France.

When did you become a hematologist? You have no idea what you're talking about.

Sure I have an idea of what I am talking about. That is what starts me writing....

This gives credit to my own thought that using the cycle trainer indoor and that is really sweaty has a mission. I dressed as I would have done for running below 5deg C yesterday on the indoor trainer and it got really hot, but no prob.

I wonder if anyone splits their time between Siberia and Somalia/Arabia? Has anyone tried this? For cold and heat adaptation

Hardloper wrote:

If heat acclimation is similar to altitude training, then instead of moving to altitude or buying a generator, just slowly crank the thermostat until you are super heat adapted. Has anyone tried this?

Subject to your budget, setting your thermostat at a comfortable temperature and running outside, has worked well for many runners.

Hardloper wrote:

If heat acclimation is similar to altitude training, then instead of moving to altitude or buying a generator, just slowly crank the thermostat until you are super heat adapted. Has anyone tried this?

This would be extremely expensive in the winter time!

Imagine thinking passive heat acclimation training is new.