What is the relationship between sweat and exercise?!


Question:

What is the relationship between sweat and exercise?

I understand that exercise is exertion and exertion causes you to sweat. Some people prespire easily and others do not. I rarely sweat, even in extreme conditions, when the first few beads appear around my hairline, I am near passing out!!

Surely, no one would suggest that I exercise until I pass out. So can some of you fitness gurus help me understand the mentality in "do it until you sweat"....

Some say when you sweat you are burning calories, but it seems to me that sweating is an indication that you have dehydrated yourself and that is not healthy........

Would someone clarify these things for me?


Answers:

Sweating is simply a mechanism for the body to cool itself. When you workout, you generate heat and your force your body to cool itself, and thus sweat. The body temperature has to be regulated for all the internal chemical reactions to take place.

Sweating isnt burning calories, sweating is just an indication that your body has done work, and generated heat, using calories to generate that heat, since people are different, and everyone sweats at different points like you pointed out, the best advice would be to measure activity and increase that gradually, After all, its activity that burns calories, not sweat.




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