As you go about your weight training workout routine, one thing that you may start to wonder about and question is whether sweat can be used as an indication as to how hard you’re working. Does sweating really tell the whole story about whether or not you’re making the progress you should be?
Can one use sweating as indication of whether or not you’ve just done a great weight training workout session?
Before you jump to conclusions on this debate, let’s go over a few important things that you need to think about with regards to sweating and its effect on fat burning.
What Is Sweat?
The very first thing that you need to understand is what sweat is. basically speaking, sweat is your body’s way of thermoregulating itself, helping to bring down your core body temperature when you’re starting to overheat.
The body will cause these tiny water droplets to be secreted by the skin, which then evaporate into the air, cooling the body off in the process.
It’s been demonstrated that men start sweating much sooner than women do and will sweat to much higher rates when exercising at the same intensity level.
The Sweating-Fat Burning Myth
So now that you know what sweating is, how does it correlate with fat loss? If you’re doing a weight lifting workout and are sweating buckets, does this mean you’re burning up fat much faster than someone who isn’t sweating as much?
The truth of the matter is that sweating has very little to do with fat burning. Sweating can be an indication that you are working harder during your workout and that can be an indication that you’re burning fat better, but sweating on its own doesn’t mean you’re burning fat.
You could lie out in the hot sun for hours on a lawn chair and sweat extreme amounts but this doesn’t mean you’re burning up calories and therefore body fat. In fact, a day of nothing but sitting in the sun burns few calories so the opposite would be truth.
Some people may feel thinner and even weigh less after a period of heavy sweating but realize that this is simply because you have lost so much water weight from your body.
Is Sweat Really Important?
So all in all, does the amount of sweat you show demonstrate a hard workout? Definitely not. While you should be working up a sweet during your workout to indicate that you are pushing yourself hard enough, don’t let yourself come to believe that this means you’re automatically seeing better results.
It takes more than a bit of sweat to actually burn off body fat – you need to be doing the right type of weight training program along with following a proper diet. That is what will really get you showing remarkable results with your progress.
So keep these points in mind and don’t be fooled by the sweating myth any longer.
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