The Heat Beat

Pre-Cooling Strategies: Getting Response-Ready Before Practice

Pre-cooling lowers your baseline core temperature before activity, extending your thermal runway. Learn evidence-based methods and how to measure their effectiveness.

Understanding Your Runway: Predictive Insights for Heat Readiness

Runway is how much thermal capacity your athlete has left before reaching their performance ceiling. Learn how predictive heat monitoring gives coaches time to adjust before performance drops.

Heat Acclimation Timelines: Understanding Your Athlete’s Individual Adaptation Journey

Heat acclimation isn’t a fixed schedule—it’s an individual progression shaped by workload, conditioning, hydration, and environment. This guide explains how athletes adapt at different rates and ho...

Your Hydration Readiness Protocol: Pre, During, and Post-Activity Strategies

Hydration readiness is a proactive approach to managing how athletes respond to heat across a full training cycle. Instead of relying on generic advice, this protocol aligns pre-, during-, and post...

Making Heat Response Visible: Why Individual Monitoring Beats Weather-Only Guidelines

Most teams still rely on weather and WBGT guidelines that treat every athlete the same. But internal responses can vary widely. This article explains why real-time visibility into core temperature,...

Pre-Season Heat Readiness Assessment: Building Athlete Baselines

Pre-season is the best time to establish individualized heat readiness baselines. By standardizing drills and capturing vital trends—core temperature, skin temperature, and heart rate—coaches can t...

Individualized Hydration: Why Every Athlete’s Heat Response Is Different

Every athlete’s heat response—and hydration need—is unique. Learn how individualized hydration powered by real-time vitals helps coaches and teams manage heat, optimize recovery, and maintain perfo...

Heat Acclimation: How to Build Your Heat Response

Heat acclimation is the gradual process of building heat-response capacity through repeated exposure. This guide explains how adaptation works, what to track (core and skin temperature, heart rate)...

Harvard’s Climate Action Week: Extreme heat is the most deadly climate risk

During Harvard’s Climate Action Week, 37 city leaders ran a hands-on Heat Simulation modeled on Phoenix to pressure-test decisions for extreme heat—the deadliest climate threat in the U.S. Guided b...

Summer 2025: Heat Impossible to Ignore

New analysis summarized by FOX Local shows nearly every U.S. state ran hotter than normal this summer. In 48 states, the average person saw at least 30 days of unusually high heat—while Utah reco...