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It amazing how the Body will quickly acclimatise to the cold weather. At boot camp this morning, it was a balmy 10º with the general consensus amongst other Fitmates that is was a warm morning.

Every year when the mercury drops, the first couple of weeks of cooler weather in the mornings are greeted with “Grrrrrr” and “why am I hear”, yet after the warm up, the layers of clothing are slowly removed with everyone in either T-Shirts or singlets.

Similarly if you have an extremely hot summer with a continued spell of above 30º temperatures that we experienced last year, as soon as the weather changes to cooler temperatures of 18 – 20º, people are reaching for the jackets.

Alternatively an 18 -20º day during winter will have everyone reaching for the T-Shirts. There have been numerous studies that have shown how the body acclimatises, there was one study that prepared scientists going to an Antarctic base camp in 1993 by having one group sitting in an ice bath before they left while the other group made the usual preparations. Guess what, the group who sat in the ice bath adjusted more easily to the colder temperatures and experienced a lower rate of illness.

So while training in the cooler weather may seem unappealing, Boot camp training is not so bad after all.

Great to see 7 Fitmates braving the rainy weather conditions to get to our Melbourne Boot camp last night. The outlook was bleak with heavy rain forecasted for Melbourne.
While some may feel this is extremely unappealing, with the cold wet conditions and the icy south westerly winds, it actually isn’t so bad once you get moving.

Considering it was a whole 8º, you can see from the pic that everyone is wearing T-Shirts. The body quickly warms up and those feelings resistance to the cooler temperatures quickly subside and the euphoria from the training takes over.

So next time you’re considering the opportunity of training outdoors, all you need is a little bit of shelter providing protection away from the rain.
The whole experience isn’t so bad after all.