Remember your first hot class when you thought, "This heat is impossible—how do people do this?" You spent the entire 90 minutes fighting the temperature instead of embracing what it was actually doing for you.

Jim Kallett reveals the science behind the heat that most practitioners completely miss. In the 1970s, fitness expert Covert Bailey wrote about seven reasons why heat is the safest way to exercise. First: "Your muscles become soft and supple, minimizing micro-tearing of fibers when stretching." When you work out in the cold, you're literally tearing muscle tissue.

But here's the breakthrough insight: "It's not the heat you feel, it's the stretching you feel, it's the flushing of blood through your body." That overwhelming sensation isn't the temperature—it's your circulatory system working at optimal levels. The heat creates vasodilation, making blood vessels expand so oxygen and nutrition flow more easily to your cells.

And that Bikram room that feels so intense? "It's only 10-15° above your body temperature. A sauna is 180°. When you're in Phoenix, it's 120° in summer." You've experienced hotter conditions just walking outside.

"Get your head out of the heat and put it back in your brain so you're focusing on what you're doing, not the heat." The temperature becomes irrelevant when you understand it's not the challenge—it's the medicine protecting you from injury.

Ready to stop fighting your ally and start working with the heat? 👉 Yogaisliferadio.com