how do athletes play in 0° with skin showing?

Question

Watching the Dolphins/Chiefs game and some of those players had bare arms… how do they not get frostbite or lose feeling in limbs?

ETA: 0°F

In: Biology

Answer 1

I used to play varsity basketball up north. At the end of practice before changing up, I would walk outside into freezing temperatures for a few minutes to cool off. It was comfortable. Hard exercise raises one’s core temperature quite a bit.