| It is August. It is summer. It is hot, and it is | | | | sporting countries, including many of the USA |
| kick-off time across the country as pre-season | | | | teams. The military in Iraq are even using the |
| football practice begins. Players will expect to get | | | | Arctic Heat cooling vests. |
| hot and sweaty, as their coaches attempt to | | | | "The Arctic Heat Cooling Vest, designed for |
| whip them into shape. However a combination of | | | | football, will legally improve performance and will |
| hot/humid weather, tough conditioning drills and | | | | also help protect an athlete's health," said Dr John |
| players unaccustomed to practicing in the heat, | | | | Surie, President of Arctic Heat USA. |
| can make August a deadly and dangerous month. | | | | The ice cold cooling vest can be worn underneath |
| Despite all the warnings, the National Center for | | | | playing uniforms, it can be used as a pre-cooling |
| Catastrophic Sport Injury Research reports that | | | | device before conditioning drills, and it can be used |
| 24 football players (19 high school, 3 college and 2 | | | | as a recovery tool in between or after sessions. |
| professional) have died from heatstroke since | | | | Yet enquiries from local football teams have so |
| 1995. | | | | far been limited. "There seems to be a different |
| The main problem associated with exercising in | | | | mentality in football that you have to run players |
| the hot weather is the water loss through | | | | hard and make them sweat, in order to toughen |
| sweating. However drinking water is simply not | | | | them up. We believe it is better to cool down and |
| enough. In extremely hot weather the body will | | | | fire up athletes. Most other sporting codes in the |
| sweat at a rate faster than water can be | | | | world now agree with us," said Dean Sainsbury |
| absorbed into the system. So how can we reduce | | | | from the Arctic Heat company. |
| the amount of sweating, while at the same time | | | | Arctic Heat has also developed a range of unique |
| help the body to regulate its core body | | | | cooling blankets and cooling caps which can be |
| temperature? | | | | used to immediately treat players who have |
| The answer is the Arctic Heat Body Cooling Vest. | | | | overheated. "The cooling caps can be used during |
| A lightweight cool vest which will not only help to | | | | a game to cool players down. When they come |
| protect athletes from heat related illness, but it will | | | | to the bench they can remove their helmets, put |
| also allow athletes to work harder for longer. | | | | the cool cap on, and cool down," said Dr Surie. |
| The Arctic Heat cooling vest was originally | | | | The lightweight Arctic Heat Cooling Vest uses a |
| developed for football players in Australia and it | | | | two stage cooling process. The vests contain a |
| now used by International teams in every other | | | | gel-like substance that can be frozen or chilled. |
| major football code in the world. Rugby League, | | | | The cooling vests are manufactured using |
| Rugby Union, Soccer and Australian Rules Football | | | | Woolmark's Sportwool, a special body cooling |
| all use the cooling vest to protect their athletes | | | | fabric which incorporates Vapor Management |
| and to improve their performance. It was also | | | | Technology, helping to wick moisture away from |
| used at the Athens Olympics by all the major | | | | the skin, allowing the user to keep dry. |
