Cold-start welcome! Why we in the Winter sports should make
The Shoes? Rather a number of small, better Maintenance. The Racing Suit? Airy, also with Skiunterwäsche. If Viktoria rebensburg completed as the race is now in November in the USA, their world Cup, the temperatures are dropping already below minus ten degrees, then the cold will be back. Since Rebensburg can think of, not giving way to you from your side. In the late autumn, she announces, in the Winter, puts it to her again and again right to the body.
Her career has built vine-castle in the snow, and it became no small: Olympic champion 2010 in the giant slalom, world Cup winner in the same discipline, and also at the world ski Championships next February in Sweden, she is back as one of the favorites. “In my heart, I’ve always been a winter child, and will always be. I grew up there, where there used to be many and strong Winter. That’s why I do a lot of sports out there. Also time cross-country skiing or ski touring.”
It is time, finally, with a few prejudices to clean up, the hold still in our latitudes. Because the Winter is for sport Outdoor a lot better than its reputation. And he not only allows, if the country knows in excess glucose levels in and on top of the winter sun to irradiate.
He may let us suffer from time to time with his icy Wind, the cold, the wet, the crawling under the rain clothes. But he offers at least as much Chance as Last, if we understand it as an invitation not to return, but to the extract. “Similar to the Sauna or during endurance sports in General, it is also used in the Sport in a cool environment to an activation of immune cells,” says Mathias Steinach from the Charité in Berlin. The cause of the short-term release of stress hormones, which is enhanced by the cold. “Immune cells were inactive in the fabric, be moved, get into the blood stream and come in contact with other immune cells, as well as the body surfaces, and can potentially fight off disease-causing viruses and bacteria better and faster,” says Steinach.
In the center for space medicine at the Charité in Berlin, he is researching, among other things, how our body reacts to extreme cold. The difference between cold and really cold, the scientist knows best. He has accompanied the participants of the legendary Yukon Arctic Ultra in Canada medical and 2019 will be the toughest long-distance race of the world. To walk there on days on the Yukon River, the temperatures often below minus 40 degrees. An icy Wind. The feels like temperature is a few degrees lower, because wind speed, solar radiation, and humidity affect the cooling feel solid. The jockey Rebensburg remembers departures in Canada, where the Thermometer is below minus 30 degrees has dropped, the Wind blew her ears. “Because you can drive really quickly down, and then that was it.”
To strong the body is engaged in such extreme situations in order to keep the body core warm. The demand for energy increases sharply, the circulation of blood in the periphery is reduced, it will threaten frostbite. Who defies under such conditions the body with additional energy through an endurance performance, may lose some pounds. He risked but also hypothermia.
At temperatures below minus ten or minus 15 degrees of learning does not recommend Steinach sport only, therefore, to exercise caution. “The air is very dry, the respiratory tract can quickly dry up, and the bronchi constrict.” It is the so-called cold-induced Asthma threatens.
In Germany, however, only rarely such an Arctic climate. In the past few years, the winters have become more mild. In addition, the body is prepared, in principle, well, with the cold deal: The so-called brown adipose tissue, even in adults, in recent research to prove without a doubt that is used exclusively for heat production. In the Winter of this tissue shows significantly more active than in the summer. The body is in the cold on our fat deposits, when we call for him a little, a pleasant accompaniment to the movement at cooler temperatures, which should not only make extreme athlete in painful cold take advantage of.
Temperatures of from about plus 10 to 15 degrees can have an impact even performance-enhancing in endurance sports. Our temperature balancing works significantly better than, for example, in the height of summer. Sweat and energy to the environment, to reduce the temperature of the body, we need to then hardly. The cooling takes place already from the outside. It is, therefore, in the winter months is important to be with the Sport not too thick to be dressed. The best according to the onion principle with several layers that can be changed to ensure the heat transfer to the cooler environment. A sweaty body, under circumstances of cold Wind blows through, it loses a lot of heat. Physical exhaustion and, in addition, creates an energy deficit. The blood flow to the skin decreases, from bad to worse, the immune cells come with various areas of the body in contact, especially the throat, nose, and throat are affected. Pathogens, somewhere captured, then have an easy game, against the more permeable anti-virus protection screen to enforce. We be sick.
Those who feel the cold the fitness level but knows that the door is open in every respect. Jana Sussmann, 28, is running around pretty much every day, and the short-pants, “up to five degrees”. Sussmann, the tight-fitting fabric of the running pants disturbs the body. Their pronounced resistance to Cold, however, is not on quite insulating effect of subcutaneous fat tissue. Slim she is and has frozen never much. Cold feet it did not know almost. Because, like humans, temperature sensation, such as skin color or fingerprint. Therefore, a uniform dress code for winter jogger make little sense.
Sussmann has strips on a Tuesday in November, the running gloves transferred to the short pants, outside, the Thermometer shows eleven degrees, they will turn round and shake his head and return. “The gloves I could have saved myself.” Nine to ten units per week, a total of 90 kilometers rips in this way in seven days. It is not a typical free-time runner, but is one of the best 3000-Meter obstacle runners. This past summer, she competed in the European championship.
And yet you referred to yourself not as a professional, but as a performance athlete. A Bank has made, studied, and today she works as a journalist. The Run has always remained a Passion, not a Job in your life. This is also why it is good as Inspiration for more sports every Season of the year.
Training in front of the door
As a training route, it selects those for which the majority of the runners will decide the immediate environment. Directly in front of your doorstep in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel Sussmann’s off to the races. “It is only with the car somewhere to go, I don’t want to. I want to directly out, after a shower, finished.” She drew the clear air rich with the smell of rubber tartan track, which is in the athletics hall next to the Alsterdorfer sports hall, in place of your strength training units, is unavoidable.
You can’t remember that you had to abandon because it’s too cold to go Running, even the interval or sprint training, she likes to take out on one of those laps through the city Park, which they explored for themselves, always have the GPS watch on your Arm, to select the range and intensity according to your training plans. “If I couldn’t even run, then it was on to slippery surfaces. The cold has not been a burden on me never in a way that it went,” she says.
Also Viktoria rebensburg said, you over in the Winter, between the races, preferably on the outside of your rounds, you will be Jogging like in the afternoon, after the unit on skis in the Morning. “I go for a walk with the common cold every day, because the fresh air for the whole body and the mucous membranes is so important. That one from time to time from the dry heating air out and the body is a bit on tours.”
Up to four hours a day she spends now outside again, three of them on skis. She pays attention to your vitamin budget, colds lurking in your significantly more frequently than in the case of Sussmann. The supposedly evil cold, however, is not to blame, that it caught on last year after Christmas. “We are sitting in the Hotels as a Team in a confined space. After the new year so many viruses are in the air by the sick, carers and colleagues, that it was eventually inevitable.”
