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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