CORE 2 Thermal Sensor
Heat training with the CORE 2 Thermal Sensor
Exercice can raise your core temperature to as much as 40°C. That's normal, and your body gets rid of the excess heat by sweating. But when it's particularly hot, this temperature can rise even higher - and that has a negative impact on your performance.
Avoiding overheating in extreme hear requires heat training. And that's why the CORE 2 thermal sensor is for. This body temperature sensor continuously measures your body temperature. That helps you to apply cooling strategies, when to hydrate, or when to reduce your pace or power to avoid overheating.
What does the CORE 2 thermal sensor measure?
Heat strain index: this score describes the physiological processes that cool the body. The harder your body works to cool itself, the greater the strain, and the impact on your performances.
Heat adaptation score: this score indicates how well your body is adapted to heat on a scale of 0-100%. The higher the score, the better your body is adapted.
Heat training load: this is the daily value of the amount of time spent in the heat training zone (zone 3), on a scale of 1-10. Optimal heat training involves 1 to 3 sessions per week, with 45 to 60 minutes per session in the heat training zone. Sequential days with high heat training load will increase your heat adaptation score.
Core and skin temperatures: the core body temperature is the temperature near internal organs in the torso. This temperature rises when we exercice. If it rises too high, performance suffers. The skin temperature helps your body regulate the core temperature. Both are used to calculate your heat strain index.
