To tell you not to run around if caught in snow- exercise cools you down

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I am quite alarmed at the level of ignorance shown about this, so just in case anyone here gets caught in snow today

Please don't exercise to warm up - or tell your children to - this cools you down and leaves you vulnerable to hypothermia

Insulate yourself as well as you can, and huddle as close together as you can instead.

But exercise does warm you up! As anyone whose ever done exercise has found. You'd eventually get too tired to continue though, so maybe the best choice depends on the situation.

You’re a penguin, aren’t you!

I can honestly say, hand on heart, I have NEVER 'run around' when caught in any snow. And neither has anyone I know.

What a strange thread.

😂

I am incredibly unfit so this may not be the case for everyone. But Ive only got to go for a short walk (a mile or so) and once home I start shivering and am cold to the bones. I cant warm up easily after that, despite during the walk becoming hot and sweaty

no it doesn't. It cools you down

This is why I am posting this, because of this common misconception.

Do NOT exercise to warm up if you are caught in the cold - it is dangerous

hance this thread

Please cite your sources then, because I disagree.

but you can see from the first post, that there are people who genuinely believe that exercise will warm you up if you are stranded in the cold, and will in all probability tell their children to run around and warm up -which is dangerous

I don’t live in a bitchy in the high mountainous peaks so am unlikely to get “caught in the snow” but thanks for your histrionics concern OP.

*bothy. My post is fairly bitchy tho 😂

It is a scientific fact - look it up for yourself - it isn't an opinion you can agree or disagree on, I am simply informing people of the known science.

Thanks for the heads up 🙄

This is such a weird thread. Where do you live where people are stranded in snow regularly enough, and exercising to stay warm, to make you think it’s necessary to put this warning out there? I don’t know anybody that’s ever been stranded in snow.

I also promise you that exercise warms me up and I stay warm for a very long time afterwards.

people die of hypothermia in cities, and I am honestly quite shocked at the level of ignorance on MN about it.

Children suffer from hypothermia in city parks, you know

It is an illusion.

You're the one posting the thread, so it's on you to provide the science links if you want to convince people to change their minds.

No, it is not you, it is the case for everybody, exercise cools you down, just most people don't realise it

Of courses people die from hypothermia. Usually old people in their homes.

Not children playing in parks. I’ve literally never heard of it.

I’m shocked, shocked to my ice cold core.

I actually did not know this!

Are you not in the uk?

OK, I have done some Googling and not found anything to support your advice OP.

You are going to need to provide the science , not just keep berating our ignorance.

(mild drizzle here today: any urgent survival tips?)

Exercise does warm you up, I think what you are trying to say is when exercising in cold conditions and you sweat the sweat freezes. but we are in the uk not the Antarctica and I dont think anyone is going to get stranded in the snow 😂😂

@Freshstarts22 think OP has just got signal on the way back down from base camp or something

I googled and every single thing that came up confirmed that exercise warms you up.