[pct-l] Water Tricks-Heat training

[steve_peterson at sbcglobal.net (Steve Peterson)]

Heat training is an option (which I personally plan to make use of). I ran 
across the following web pages

http://ladesai.home.att.net/lowhigh/index.html
http://ladesai.home.att.net/dv/index.html

which describe a couple of mid-summer Death Valley hikes (they're short and 
fairly fun reads). The author mentions heat training and comments that he did 
about 15 sessions of 90-120 minutes the month before. I wrote to him and he 
further mentioned that he found the method extremely effective; that sweating 
profusely during the training is required; that he adopted this after reading 
research papers on this and that the method had been used by the US atheletes 
prior to the Atlanta Olympics.

  --Steve

Ken Powers wrote:
> 
> We believe that the body adjusts to the heat and dry conditions of the
> desert. But the first few days can be brutal. After that we used less water
> and don't remember any ill effects.