... with a hot bath.

Forget about chilly drinks and a cold shower. Apparently the best way to cope with high Summer temperatures is to indulge in your bathtub filed with warm water.

Indeed, exercising in hot weather puts extra stress and strain on your body. The combination of the exercise plus the air temperature and humidity can raise your body's core temperature, according to the researchers.

To cool things down, your heart works harder to send more blood circulating through your skin. In turn, that leaves less blood for your muscles, which raises your heart rate.

If it's not just hot, but also humid, that creates extra stress because sweat doesn't easily evaporate from your skin. If you run, walk or are active in any way on a sweltering day, you know how hard it can be to cope with the heat. No matter how much water you drink or how many breaks you take, it feels impossible to cool off.

But it turns out we may be looking at the problem all wrong; we should be soaking in a hot bath instead. That's part of a heat acclimation strategy suggested by researchers and exercise pros to help outdoor enthusiasts safely handle summer temperatures.

The study was published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research.