{"id":833634,"date":"2026-07-29T12:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833634\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T12:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:30:11","slug":"experts-give-tips-on-how-to-stay-cool-while-exercising-in-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833634\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts give tips on how to stay cool while exercising in heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Someone who knows about exercising in hot weather is David Exell from Wrington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 84-year-old used to hold the record for the oldest British man to run the Marathon Des Sables, a 155-mile ultra-marathon in the Sahara Desert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Exell said the number one rule was to stay as hydrated as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When you&#8217;re doing these things in the desert, there&#8217;s no shade,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You just have a hat on with flaps on it which keeps all the heat off your head and you hope for the best.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You&#8217;re on hot sand all the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year, Exell cycled 1,000km from the Alps to the Mediterranean with his two grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We spent a little bit of time in the shade,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to start really early in the morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Someone who knows about exercising in hot weather is David Exell from Wrington. The 84-year-old used to hold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[49,48,407,84],"class_list":["post-833634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fitness","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}