Chubby bloated fingers wk2 run2

[Cloud10]

I’m enjoying the challenge so far. Far more than I thought I would. I’m even kinda coping in this British heatwave! Who would ever believe that I’m out on my local streets doing a kinda jog! But my fingers are just so bloated and puffy. Is this because of the heat? Will it stop? I hope so!! I think I drink enough water... but maybe not!!

[Denovo]

It happens to me too! I find it helps a little to keep my hands in loose fists rather than let the fingers dangle around.

[UnfitNoMore Graduate]

The heat won’t help with size of fingers... my rings won’t come off in the summer. It won’t stop as such... if your finger is 5% bigger in the heat it always will be, it’ll just be 5% off less, so it’ll be smaller.

As your body exercises and heats up, it needs to cool, so it sends more blood to the extremities and skin surface in general... this is to cool the blood more, it’s kinda the opposite of frostbite. You’ll sweat more and right now you’ll notice the sweat and the fingers more because the heat comes with humidity which stops sweat evaporating and that scuppers the body’s cooling system which is massively better if the sweat evaporates as that takes extra heat from the surface of the skin. A demonstration of this would be to put surgical spirit or similar (vodka) on the palm of your hand. As it evaporates you’ll feel your palm cool down.