Picture a new arrival in Dubai in late June. They land with a training plan that worked in London or Lisbon, and decide the heat is "just summer, harder." Two weeks in, they're in an emergency room with an IV in their arm, wondering what the word "acclimatisation" means and why their coach never said it out loud.
The Heat Training Field Guide is the document Nelson wishes that person had read on the plane.
Inside this one
- 22-page pocket field guide for training in genuinely hot climates (Gulf, equatorial, tropical summers)
- Cited acclimatisation timeline, hydration protocol, and outdoor-window framework
- Heat illness recognition — the symptoms that mean stop training and call a clinician
- Quick-reference pocket card for phone or wallet
- Cross-referenced with Vol. 36 (Travel & Adaptive) and Vol. 33 (Chronic Conditions)
- Full Technical Addendum with peer-reviewed citations — audit me
The standard it is held to
Every factual claim in this volume names its source, and every claim carries a confidence grade — settled, strong, emerging or contested. Where the evidence is thin, the text says so. How it’s made, in full → · What we’ve got wrong →