Ormond Beach professional Howard Perch enjoys the Florida climate – something that affords local residents an almost year-round opportunity to enjoy the outdoors and to engage in outdoor activities at their leisure.

1. Common Side Effects of Hot
Weather Exercise
Howard Perch

2. Ormond Beach professional Howard Perch enjoys
the Florida climate – something that affords local
residents an almost year-round opportunity to enjoy
the outdoors and to engage in outdoor activities at
their leisure.
But Howard Perch also understands the potential
health hazards that can come from spending too
much time in the hot Florida sun – particularly those
that commonly result from strenuous activities in 80,
90 and sometimes 100-degree temperatures.

3. Some of the more common side effects of hot
weather exercise include:
O Cramps
O Syncope
O Heat exhaustion
O Heatstroke

4. O Cramps. A common heat-related illness, cramps
involve sometimes-painful muscle contractions
that often result from exercise.
O Syncope Syncope, generally associated with
exercise-associated collapse, involves
lightheadedness and fainting that often results
from strenuous hot weather activity Heat
exhaustion.

5. O Heat exhaustion. Those experiencing heat
exhaustion often undergo such symptoms as
weakness, fainting, nausea, headache, sweating
and clammy skin.
O Heatstroke. This condition involves many of the
same symptoms as heat exhaustion – though
with considerably higher severity. Heatstroke is
most often life-threatening.