Coaching Resources

Heat training is a new concept for many coaches and athletes. Before CORE, doing heat training with any sort of precision was difficult and expensive. CORE technology has made real-time core temperature monitoring – and thus, heat training and adaptation– affordable and accessible to all.

Still, there is a lot of background knowledge and protocols that will optimize your athletes’ use of CORE. The more you understand about “how it all works,” the better you can integrate CORE into your coaching programme.

For further questions and discussions please see our CORE community.

This page gives resources for the following topics:

1. Physiology of heat and athletic performance
2. Heat training with CORE
3. Racing with CORE
4. Tips for using the CORE sensor
5. CORE accuracy
6. CORE for everyday living
7. Research papers
8. Join the program

Online articles:

Heat Related Performance Loss. What happens to your body as you heat up.

Training and Racing with Your CORE Sensor. A slideshow covering the basics.

What does heat do to your body during exercise? Detailed article from Thomas Solomon, Ph.D.

How Hot is it Really? The Wet Bulb Globe Temperature is much more predictive of the air's cooling potential than simply looking at air temperature alone.

Printed texts

Advanced Environmental Exercise Physiology. A technical look at the major topics and debates in the field of environmental physiology. Purchase from Amazon.

Heat Stress in Sports and Exercise: Thermophysiology of Health and Performance. The physiology of heat stress, recommendations on optimising health and performance, and more. Purchase from Amazon.

Videos

Heat Training and Endurance Performance with Dr. Chris Minson.
1:16:04. Trainer Road’s The Science of Getting Faster podcast.

Online CORE articles

CORE's Heat Strain Index. Explains how core temp and skin temp are combined to show how hard the body is working to cool itself.

CORE's Heat Zones. Prevent performance loss and optimise heat training by staying in a target Heat Zone.

Heat Training Load. A measure of how much your training session contributes to your heat adaptation. Includes sample workouts.

Heat Adaptation Score. The score shows how adapted you are to the heat, from 0 to 100%.

Boosting Your Heat Adaptation Score. Schedules of 2 to 12 weeks to become heat adapted.

Building Heat Awareness. First steps for athletes new to heat training.

How To Do a Heat Session. The 'how to' basics.  

Integrating Heat Sessions into Your Training Plan. How to fit heat adaptation into your training.

Influences on Heat Strain Index. How to raise or lower your Heat Strain Index.

Individuality of Heat Zones. Explains variations amongst individual athletes.

Women’s Core Temp Variations. Discusses how women's core temperature varies.

Online Training Peaks articles

Everything Coaches Need to Know About Heat Training. Questions about heat training explained.

What Coaches Need to Know About Heat Training, Part 2. More Q&A about heat training.

Unlocking the Power of Indoor Training with Kevin Poulton.
51:27. Audio discussion, including heat adaption.

Videos

How to train and race in hot weather.
24:29. Trainer Road’s The Science of Getting Faster podcast.

Online CORE articles

Keep cool on race day. Detailed article from Thomas Solomon, Ph.D.

Heat pacing explained.  Coach Aidan Charles explains adjusting power output based on temperature.

Online articles and manuals

Pair CORE with a heart rate monitor. For sports, it's critical to pair the sensor with a heart rate monitor. Otherwise you'll get inaccurate data.

Connectivity. Using CORE with different devices and software platforms.

Sharing sensor data. How to see your athletes' data on your CORE app.

Videos

Using the securing clips. 0:54. The clips prevent your CORE sensor from sliding off the chest strap.

Install the CORE Data Field on your Garmin. 4:27. The Data Field lets you view core temp data and records it onto the activity’s FIT file.

Setting up your CORE with a COROS watch. 6:23.

Troubleshooting tips. 1:29. How to reset your sensor.

Online articles and resources

The technology behind CORE. Detecting thermal energy transfer.

Testing CORE’s accuracy. The testing protocol explained.

CORE vs the e-pill. Validating CORE under different sports scenarios.

How does CORE compare to other thermometers? Comparing the accuracy of CORE with other devices.

Women’s cycle monitoring and athletic performance. Identifying peak performance phases by core temp.

Circadian cycle and athletic performance. Identifying peak performance times of day by core temp.

Research papers and resources can be found on our Research papers page

Interested in becoming a CORE Coach?

We are buildng a community of coaches who believe that technology, data, and careful analysis can help push the boundaries of human performance. These data-driven coaches grow the expertise in using core body temperature in training and racing.

If you or your organization is interested in becoming a leading innovator and join a group of like-minded coaches, please contact us for more information.