Hey everyone I wanted to post here to see if I could get some feedback regarding heat and headaches. Ever since I was young kid 8 or 9 and played sports in the heat I would get headaches. The headaches were so bad in freshmen year of football I would have to come home and lay down with a fan on me, the lights off, and I couldn't eat so some time after practice. I don't workout and am not in the heat as much as a was back then but if I get to much heat/sun I will still get varying intensities of headaches. Obviously heat is at play but I am curious why it is causing headaches and if there are any other possible physiological things going on that can help prevent them. While if I do a hot sauna for too long I will get a headache, I have noticed in the past few years that I get slight headaches even if I am out in the sun to long or get too much sun. This can be a pretty short amount of time 15-20 minutes and I can feel a headache coming on and often times I don't feel like I am hot or over heating. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks

I have a quick comment/question. I train a lot of young athletes like hockey players and lacrosse players, as I was a former hockey player myself ...but it also run a boxing gym, as I cut into Boxing and boxed professionally for a few years. I keep the gym. Relatively warm, even though we have air conditioning. I want the athletes, especially the boxers, to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. When I was boxing professionally, I was training with sweatsuits on in the heat and obviously it was very uncomfortable, but I got really used to it. Is there a level of a acclimatization when training in the heat or cold weather? I got really used to training in the heat and could deal with it very, but I know there are a number of performance decreases as soon as the heat increases. Would love to know some thoughts.

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Hello all! @Braeden Ostepchuk You're a hockey guy so I thought of this today as I finally got my Kuhler device and the notification for beer league hockey starting today: Will this device work on the bench in a cold ice rink? Does the ambient temperature in the mid to upper 30s and cold hands shut the palms down for the benefits? Ideally, I'd love to hold on to this thing between shifts. Would love to hear your thoughts!