Monday, 26 October 2009

  • Is It True That The More You Sweat, The More Calories You Burn??

     

    I remember reading a few articles here and there about people having problems with “excessive sweating.”  As for me, I’m totally the opposite. I have this “not-sweating-enough” problem.  I’m not saying sweating profusely is always good for your health, but I sometimes wish I could just “sweat.” I’m not saying I don’t sweat at all like a robot, but unless it’s really hot or humid, I am never “dripping with sweat.” 

    Whenever I work out at the gym with friends, I realize how much they are sweating even if they haven’t run as fast or as long as I did. My friends tell me how they sometimes envy me since sweating too much can be really annoying because you have to keep wiping off your face.  Unfortunately, even though I rarely sweat, I still believe I haven’t worked out unless I break a sweat.

    What about you guys? Do you tend to sweat a lot or a little? Do you think there is correlation between the amount you sweat and the number of calories you burn during a workout?

     

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Comments (21)

  • QuantumStorm@xanga

    http://www.fitness-equipment-health.com/does_sweating_burn_calories.html

    It's really not that hard to google such things.

  • cornyonacob@xanga

    for those of you who hate non-embedded links (like me)
    the answer is basically... yes. depending on the circumstances. (of course).

    i don't sweat enough either. i just turn really red -__- i drink tons of water too.
  • sophia@xanga

    i don't sweat that much either, especially not on my forehead. it's like a blessing and a curse.
  • alee@xanga

    i use heart rate or how hard i breathe as indicator of workout intensity.
    sweating depends on multiple variables like temperature and humidity. i can sweat a lot in the sauna room, but i don't have to move much in there.
  • Erika_Steele@xanga

    I agree with alee.  I use heart rate and how hard I am breathing to determine how hard I am working.  
  • presque_la@xanga

    I feel the same way... I dont even sweat enough in the saunas!
  • ELIZerson@xanga

    I sweat like a man.
    Unfortunately.
  • lot223@xanga

    i sweat a lot when i'm exercising.. but i had a gf that didn't sweat at ALL! i always thought it was weird but i was always secretly envious. haha i hate sweating in the summer when i wear dress shirts. 
  • tigerdauphin@xanga

    I don't sweat much unless going from one extreme to another.
  • PervyPenguin@xanga

    I don't think it's true, because otherwise, I'd burn calories while eating.

    I KNOW I'm not the only one who sweats when they eat a large meal, LOL.

    - Kunoichi
  • d0llh0use@xanga

    its true for me even though i dont sweat a lot but when i do (especially when i exercise), i could feel the difference. literally feel the fat burn away.

  • d0llh0use@xanga

    @ELIZerson@xanga - somehow, i just find that funny *lol*
  • Rachies_Icons@xanga

    i sweat more than the average person, so i doubt it.
  • xueyo@xanga

    i sweat ALOT and it gets annoying. plus i'm in singapore and it's extremely HOT.
  • tastytimmm@xanga

    My shins sweat a lot when I work out. so I wear tube socks :D

    Also, I don't see how sweating would mean more calories are burned... Possibly correlation but not causation? Meh, I don't feel like looking it up lol

    But sweating more will help in weight loss... loss of water weight that is :P
  • Ork58@xanga

    Sweating is just a cooling mechanism the body uses. It works better when you supply the body with more water; drink lots before your workouts. While "more sweat" is not a direct indicator of burning calroeis, it indirectly indicates you are. If the body is overheated, it sweats, which indicates you are working vigorously, therefore burning lots of calories. Some people's bodies are more efficient, and cool easier without sweating so much. Doesn't mean they burn any less calories when working out.

  • tau_1@xanga

    Our bodies are built up from the food we eat. There is a constant breaking down of the tissues of the body, every movement of evey organ involves waste, and this waste is repaired from our food. Each organ of the body requires its share of nutrition. the brain must be supplied with its portion, the bones, muscles and nerves demand theirs. It is a wonderful process that transforms the food into blood, and uses this blood to build up the varied parts of the body, but htus process is going on continually, supplying withlife and strength each nerves, muscle, and tissue.


    the skin is provided with approximatley 1 million seat glands which excrete the perspiration which is acid unless it is vey prfuse. The perspiration is nearly all water, the evaporation of which is an important part of the cooling system of the body. About one quart of water comes out of the pores in twenty four hrs. as insensible perspiration, during exercise or hot eaeather it is much more, it maybe a quart per hr. It the pores should cease to function for a skin be washed often to remove this waste or some of it veryimportant that the skin be washed often to remove this waste or some of it may be absorbed into the body again.


    the body is producing these acid wastes by converting food and oxygen into heat and energy and food into tissue. the wastes of the cells as they wear but are also acid. Exercise increases this waste, and therefore fatigue is partly an increase of acidity, which mens that we become rested by decreasing our activity and increasing our alkalies.


    In addition to these poisons which are naturally produced within the body, some people deliberately but unnecessarily put extra acids and poisons into the body and so overwork the pores, lungs, and kidneys, especially the kidney.
  • YouniquexKisses1669@xanga

    I don't sweat that much at all. . .I'm thankful for that too. I personally think sweat comes when your body is overheated and the only way for it to dehydrate besides water is for the sweat to come out of your pores. Other then that. . . sweating is overrated ha I go with how my body feels and HRM
  • G1G1626

    Oh I sweat and I love it! But it's weird... I used to not sweat and now I sweat like a MAN! ha ha!
  • erindoyle2006@xanga

    i wouldnt say calories, but the more you sweat the more weight you loose because your body is kicking all the water out.

  • xpokerface90@xanga

    @QuantumStorm@xanga - LOL but some people aren't that smart to google these things. Or even to use google as a verb.

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