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
If your physically exterting yourself your body produces a lot of energy.
Also, probably a lot of these replies are coming from people in moderate climates who don’t get that 0C isn’t actually that cold. I’ve done a 1.5 hour running race at about -10C in shorts and a T-shirt. No frostbite risk while I’m moving.
Working keeps you warm; you’re told from a very young age in the subarctic that stopping in -40° for even just a minute will kill you, not *might* kill you—stopping **will** kill you. And that’s life 🤷🏽♀️
0° is nothing really, frostbite happens when your moisture is totally sucked dry from under your skin and it takes a minute. But water closes the pores immediately and essentially “turns off” the patch of skin that was affected,
but sweat… that ensures you have a constant supply of moisture under the skin and your skin won’t “turn off” at all.
Football players are constantly in motion and have elevated body temperatures from working to begin with, plus with all that sweat it’s like they are being heated from the inside.
Physical activity warms you up. It can make a huge difference in keeping you warm.
I remember in the mid 00s, living in Anchorage, in the winter wearing a thick coat into an arcade, playing Dance Dance Revolution on hard mode for 30mins-1hr, and comfortably walking back to my car holding the coat instead of wearing it over my T-shirt, the cold air actually felt really nice.
They actually rub Vaseline on their skin and it works like a wind breaker. That plus being on the sideline half the game warming up
Even moderate exercise makes your body generate a lot of heat.
When you’re as big as those guys working as hard as they do cold doesn’t mean anything.
Due to a combination of various factors the field itself was only about 40 degrees Fahrenheit, and at that temp the physical exertion would keep them warm when not on the sidelines which were higher temps.
This is common sense. Why would you need this answered?!
0° really isn’t inhumanely cold if you live anywhere else on the planet except the US. It’s the temp water freezes at. Boils at 100°. Makes alot of sense.
The same reason I often shovel in a T shirt when it’s 0 degrees out – physical exertion. They’re wearing jackets when they’re not moving.
I remember running marathon distances and starting out in double layers with hat and gloves then by the time I was 10 minutes in I’d have shed everything except my base layer.
Working hard makes you hot.
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