Does anyone know if heat can negatively effect your performance for lifting weights? It is very very hot where I live, to the extent that with the air conditioning running it is very very hot, and I have noticed a massive nose dive in my strength, even though I felt great today.
I’ve noticed the same thing. I’ve been pouring out sweat every workout. However, I don’t know whether this is a “real thing”, that heat affects the workout, or whether it’s just in my head.
I think it may be a real thing, unless something else is negatively effecting me right now. My warm up set of 205 pound paused back squats for 5 felt slower than when I have done 240 the other week for 5 (and all of my lifts have improved since then), and I wasn’t even able to get a single for 255, along with 225 feeling brutal. I have noticed clean and press is much weaker to.
Quite the opposite it helps. The muscles are primed to go.
The negative effects that people associate with heat generally come from the effects of summer. Dehydration, and sluggishness(daily cycles of high energy less sleep) if you already had a long day. Also, more people diet, and party(alcohol) in the summer which leaves less nutrients to help. The last thing that happens a lot in summer is peaking. As summer comes and goes people generally start lifting harder and stronger eventually you peak for that cycle, and your body may be starting a new wave. Even if you don’t want to.
[quote]Airtruth wrote:
Quite the opposite it helps. The muscles are primed to go.
The negative effects that people associate with heat generally come from the effects of summer. Dehydration, and sluggishness(daily cycles of high energy less sleep) if you already had a long day. Also, more people diet, and party(alcohol) in the summer which leaves less nutrients to help. The last thing that happens a lot in summer is peaking. As summer comes and goes people generally start lifting harder and stronger eventually you peak for that cycle, and your body may be starting a new wave. Even if you don’t want to.
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Just a minor correction… there are far more alcohol sales in the winter than the summer. I know most people associate “summer” with partying, but actual liquor sales paint a different picture. (I used to work for a company that wrote point-of-sale software for liquor stores.)
Drink more water. Train early morning or later in the evening when it’s cooler. Problem solve.
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
Drink more water. Train early morning or later in the evening when it’s cooler. Problem solve. [/quote]
Yes, I figured out it was the need of water. (I wasn’t thirsty so I was just drinking the normal large amount of water instead of anything extra)
[quote]DSSG wrote:
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
Drink more water. Train early morning or later in the evening when it’s cooler. Problem solve. [/quote]
Yes, I figured out it was the need of water. (I wasn’t thirsty so I was just drinking the normal large amount of water instead of anything extra) [/quote]
Staying hydrated can be a tricky thing, especially as you put on more muscle. It’s not about drinking a ton of water before and after training but steadily making a mental note of it and keeping the H20 in all throughout the day.