Extremely hot temperatures and working out

Work out at home using YouTube videos.

Dont use the weather as an excuse as to why you cant get exercise in. Motivation is a feeling that comes and goes, it's not what pushes people to get into shape. If you want to workout outside, do it at night when it begins to cool down or early in the morning. No excuses.

Currently, all I do is row on my C2 rower in the comfort of my air conditioned home. Spend a hr on it everyday, which burns 550 cals/day which I can do anytime 24/7.

Have a full gym setup in my garage but am taking a hiatus from lifting, which just coincidentally is occuring during the heat of the summer.

I workout right after I get up in the morning, in my little room with a window AC unit(we don't have central air) and ceiling fan. I have lots of DVDs and workouts downloaded from YouTube. I just pick one and get going. I also have a treadmill if I want to watch TV and walk. Then, there's the public pool in town that I can pay $2 for 30 min lap swim tues-fri. I try to go twice per week.
Are you just having trouble finding workouts you like at home? Some of my favorites are from the Firm and Beachbody (like Turbo Jam and TurboFire).

This is one of my bugaboos. Me, I try to carry water with me when I go out in the afternoon for walks (Can't survive in this muggy GA heat without it) and try to either go out early or late. Also make sure you know the symptoms of heat stroke just in case.

And yeah, if you MUST work out in the heat, keep going out and doing it every day; just tough it out. From everything I've read, you'll adjust in a week.

I go in the fitness room when there aren't any classes and take my shirt off. I keep the lights kind of low. I'm a chunker but there's something liberating about being in shorts and a sports bra. I just accept I'm going to be a sweaty mess.

There are no secret solutions.
You can dump water on your head if you are out for a run and there is a place to do it.
You can choose to be outside during the cooler parts of the day.
Or you can stay in an air-conditioned gym until late September.
Or only swim.
The main thing, however, is to watch your electrolytes. Especially if you do something like run long distances, three or more times a week, in the summer, it is easy to get depleted when you sweat a lot, particularly because the loss of those electrolytes becomes cumulative over the days and weeks.
Sodium and chloride are usually pretty easy to replenish because we have so much salt in our diet. But potassium and calcium are not so easy. Neither are magnesium (and zinc).
Maybe consider tablets, if you do a lot outside.

I have no issue working out in the air conditioned gym in the heat. The heat does put a damper on my cycling in that I typically have to just do less mileage and my performance isn't as good when it's 100* +.

I'm so grateful that swimming is my primary activity right now...
As for running, it's early before work, or not at all.

RebeccaH2011 wrote: »

Our recent temperatures have reached above 105 degrees farenheit. I work out at a gym but have been less motivated due to the extreme heat lately (yes, even though It's inside). Have any of you come up with creative solutions to working out during the extreme hot temperatures aside from the obvious indoor gyms and swimming?

You either want to go to the gym to work out or you don't. Don't blame the weather. It's all on you. Work out in the gym when it's hot, slow everything down when it's hot and you're working out out side, or go for a swim. The choice is yours. It always was. "It's too hot', It's too muggy", "I'm not feeling right today", "there just isn't enough time". The excuses can run to infinity. There is only one to do the work. You want to.