Health hazard for cold start?

It is a fundamental debate: Is it or should not you? Experts say that is safe for healthy people running down to minus 15 degrees. Mostly, anyway.
Zero temperatures are no reason to stop the training. On the contrary, scientists from the universities of Dortmund and Münster sent in advance of the Olympic Games in Beijing, 50 athletes in the Polarium: In the short term, they had to endure in cooling chambers minus 120 degrees - and then complete a quick run-time (at normal temperatures). After six months their performance had improved significantly improves blood redistribution and increased oxygen supply. Cold can support the fitness that is apparently quite.

Many runners ask yourself whether they should move their training rather not inside. Although three of four going to run his own statements, because they love the experience of nature, a Forsa survey shows commissioned by the Afrika Korps. In the winter, but the enthusiasm mixed with doubts whether to use harm their health with their sport rather than.


Should I or should not I?

There are many reasons that speak for leaving the running shoes now in the shoe rack. Icy paths, for example, dark evenings and freezing temperatures, which not only sap the motivation, but also dangerous to health, especially the lungs. Or?

Experts believe such risks - at least so long as the runners healthy and the thermometer indicates less than minus 15 degrees, for then it is possible the body is no longer to warm the inhaled air sufficiently until it reaches the lungs. Christian Thiel also from the Institute for Sports Science at Goethe University in Frankfurt, the training stops in freezing temperatures for Fitte little problematic, "as long as it is moderate basic endurance load. Intensive training in the cold will no longer tolerate the other hand, so good. " Because with increasing cold growing attraction to bronchi, mucous membranes and pulmonary vessels.