Around here sweating is good, the humidity is the killer. Mixed with heat the body’s blood will, for lack of a better word, boil and soon thereafter one can suffer a stroke. For me shade beats hydration, one does need water but not as much as one is led to believe. I keep packets of table salt with me when out in the heat and when I get light headed I lick a little from my hand along with a drink of water and all is well.
Poor Bubba just can’t handle the pressures.
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As long as your pee is clear, if only slightly with color during the summer time, you are OK. But, the caveat to that is to maintain fluid intake as you sweat. The more concentrated your pee becomes, the harder it is to recover and back away from heat exhaustion/heat stroke. Concentrated pee is also a major cause of kidney stones, chronic dehydration. Recognition of heat stroke and the causes, signs, and symptoms have much improved over the last few years based on some studies of football players who died as a result of heat stroke.
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Let me tell you what.....
Tower hands today are WAAAYYYY softer than the guys we had 20-30 years ago. I’ve got a pretty hardcore crew now, but I had to kiss a LOT of frogs to find the princes. I’ve had guys that couldn’t do 10-12 12 hour days back to back in summer if their lives depended on it. Bitching about the heat, and in the winter, bitching about the cold.....
“It’s hot” or “I’m thirsty” or “Can’t we finish this tomorrow?”. But come payday, guess who’s the first one in the driveway??
I’ve had probably 12 of these squids (squirrelly kids aged 18-27) in the last 3 years. Errbody wants to be a tower hand until they find out what it takes to be a tower hand.....[emoji849]
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I had one at 45 while on vacation at Disney World. I got a warning of feeling just a bit of pressure, and feeling odd. I ignored it during the day. Middle of the night, boom! Thought it was heart burn, chewed Tums, no help. 95% blocked in the LAD (aka widow maker). 54 now, two stents, and all is well.
Get yourself checked out if there is concern. I didn’t earn mine from one thing. Combo of diet, many years of smoking, heredity, and STRESS added up in my case. I was otherwise healthy, strong, and cycling many many miles each week.
Get yourself checked out if there is concern. I didn’t earn mine from one thing. Combo of diet, many years of smoking, heredity, and STRESS added up in my case. I was otherwise healthy, strong, and cycling many many miles each week.
Back when I was framing houses, guy I knew mentioned he was needing work. Knew he was a good carpenter, so I mentioned it to the guy I was subbing for. He said, "nope, don't need old Tutu on my crew" Thought it was a jab at the guys masculinity or something. Asked him a couple days later what he meant and he said hell be lucky to get a days work out of him, Too hot, Too cold, Too rainy. Then my pitiful brain clicked and I got it.
Nomex suits can get toasty. I've worn them. And in the pits there isn't a whole lot of breeze you know. Oh yeah you can get the dizzies.
But myself, and my fellow motorcycle racers past and present, will all attest that a nomex suit feels like fishnet once you've experienced a full roadracing leather suit, helmet. boots and gloves.
I think you could wrap yourself in foil and sunbath in a microwave and it would still be cooler.
One track I raced at was especially brutal. Colombia, SC...which labels itself as "famously hot!"..it was 105 degrees all the time and track temperatures usually between 125 and 130. Now get on the track in those leathers atop of a cooking engine and two wheels and go as fast as you possibly can at every part of the track.
For 20 laps.
We knew the deal. Hot as living hell. Drank water like a fish all day and still weigh 6 lbs less when you got home.
We do it because we're racers, and when you fall down..and you do..you get to keep your skin.
Here's a secret; to be honest, motorcycle racers can't really relate to car racers complaining about anything...
But myself, and my fellow motorcycle racers past and present, will all attest that a nomex suit feels like fishnet once you've experienced a full roadracing leather suit, helmet. boots and gloves.
I think you could wrap yourself in foil and sunbath in a microwave and it would still be cooler.
One track I raced at was especially brutal. Colombia, SC...which labels itself as "famously hot!"..it was 105 degrees all the time and track temperatures usually between 125 and 130. Now get on the track in those leathers atop of a cooking engine and two wheels and go as fast as you possibly can at every part of the track.
For 20 laps.
We knew the deal. Hot as living hell. Drank water like a fish all day and still weigh 6 lbs less when you got home.
We do it because we're racers, and when you fall down..and you do..you get to keep your skin.
Here's a secret; to be honest, motorcycle racers can't really relate to car racers complaining about anything...
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Pinch up the skin on the back of your hand. Does it snap back into position or does it stay up and look like you have nut meat growing on your hand? If it’s the latter, you’re dehydrated (late sign).
It’s definitely worth going to the Doc and getting checked out/a workup. I’m not a big advocate of running to the office for every little ache and pain, but if you even suspect your symptoms may be cardiac-related, don’t play around with it...go.
Ive passed out once in my life before this, I was about 8 and just had some blood drawn and then was having chest xrays taken and fell out.
That was, approximately, thirty years ago.
That was, approximately, thirty years ago.
^^^ 100% Truth... oh... you're hot in that car??? With a nice custom-made seat?.....
And a lot of the old drivers raced with huge hangovers. Growing up in Darlington there were several drivers in the “real racing era” that were legends at some of the local watering holes. I think it was Curtis Turner when asked how he could possibly race with a hangover he responded that you sweat the hangover out in the first 50 laps.
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I think that's his being a whiny little bitch. All being black does is mean the media licks it up like a lapdog.