To prevent heat illness, coaches should adjust activity timing, manage sun exposure, promote fluid and nutrient intake, and ensure proper warm-ups.
Coaches should modify several factors to prevent heat illness among athletes, particularly during strenuous activity or in hot conditions. Some strategies include adjusting the timing of their daily activities to avoid the hottest parts of the day, ensuring athletes seek out shade or avoid direct sunlight when possible to reduce heat exposure, increasing fluids, carbohydrates, and electrolytes intake to replenish what is lost through sweating and respiration, and encouraging actions such as sweating for evaporative cooling, which helps regulate body temperature during exercise. Coaches must also consider proper warm-up routines to prepare athletes for activities and prevent injuries.
So, to minimize the risk of heat illness, coaches should adjust training schedules, promote hydration and nutrient replacement, and manage sun exposure. Warming up before activities is also essential for both injury prevention and maintaining adequate body temperature.