Environmental Physiology
Midterm exam
Would we expect performance to decrease more for a sedentary
person or an athlete in the heat? Explain your answer. - answer
✅✅Sedentary. Athletes are more likely to push past the discomfort
and not decrease performance. A sedentary person is more likely to
decrease performance d/t thermal comfort (a behavioral response to
heat)
At what temperature do we start seeing heat sickness/protein
denaturation? At what temperature do elite athletes finish their
races? Explain how this is possible. - answer ✅✅40.0C. At about
that temperature. Elite athletes have heat shock proteins that allow
for them to reach that temperature without damage done to the
body.
What drives thermal behaviour? What drives physiological
responses? - answer ✅✅Thermal behavior is driven by skin
temperature and includes voluntary responses. Physiological
responses are involuntary and are under hypothalamic control.
