Getting fit and sweating more?

[Mave]

Might sound weird, but over the last 6 months I've been working on my cardiovascular fitness, and I'm sure that as I get fitter I sweat more! Now it may just be a coincidence with the weather but, has anyone else noticed this? I wondered if your body gets more "primed" to need to sweat to cool you down as you become able to work harder?

[Lynch91]

Yes! I have found I sweat a lot more now after spending the last 2 years training hard to improve my cardio

[cst]

I sweat more now I'm getting fitter, must be due to being able to exert yourself longer!

[Spyder5]

My old games teacher (a former rugby pro coach) used to say "you need to learn to sweat"

[Hoofy]

Yeah, since training more, I feel like I run at a hotter temperature. Perfect for this weather.

Edited by Hoofy on Friday 2nd August 09:37

[stew-S160]

Several factors come in to play-

Current temperature.
Muscles working more efficiently produce heat as a waste product.
Less surface area (assuming you've lost fat/size) so your body needs to find a way to cool down, which is sweat.

[theshrew]

Yes i do. Never used to sweat much at all but now it p1sses out of me.

Your body will be running at a higher rate for a while after you work out
Also i put it down to bacically having less of me. Drink the same and your smaller that fluid has gotta go somewhere.

[essexplumber]

Yep. I used to be a18 stone of blubber, hardly ever sweated, no BO, feet never smell. Then I lost 4 stone through lots of cardio, still not much sweat. Now I've dropped the CV down and I'm lifting heavy and taking creatine, BCCA, high protien diet etc I sweat like an absolute pig and I stink like one too.

Odd really as I associated sweating with being unhealthy. I have leather seats in my car and when I drive home from the gym I have a pool of sweat on the seat, no joke, actual puddles of sweat.

[Hoofy]

Nice.

Whey protein is a culprit for the stench.

[essexplumber]

Hoofy said:

Nice.

Whey protein is a culprit for the stench.

Really? My work T shirts only go a day between washes now, used to get 3-4 days out of them.

[myles1972]

Efficiency. The body moves the core heat to the outside of your body more efficiently as you get fitter(or train more, not sure which), hence the sweat.

[theshrew]

essexplumber said:

I sweat like an absolute pig and I stink like one too.

Odd really as I associated sweating with being unhealthy. I have leather seats in my car and when I drive home from the gym I have a pool of sweat on the seat, no joke, actual puddles of sweat.

[Hoofy]

essexplumber said:

Hoofy said:

Nice.

Whey protein is a culprit for the stench.

Really? My work T shirts only go a day between washes now, used to get 3-4 days out of them.

Yeah, example: my B-i-L smelt funny for a month or two. Like he hadn't washed after a tramp had vomited and pissed on him. I couldn't sit within about 1m of him without gagging. Then suddenly he didn't smell. While chatting about training, it transpired he'd started taking protein shakes and then after a month got busy with work so stopped training (and taking protein shakes).

Example 2: when I eat a whole pot of cottage cheese in one sitting, the next day, my pits smell awful. Normally, I can go a whole day without smelling of anything bar deo or EDT. I end up having to apply deo twice.

[IrateNinja]

essexplumber said:

Yep. I used to be a18 stone of blubber, hardly ever sweated, no BO, feet never smell. Then I lost 4 stone through lots of cardio, still not much sweat. Now I've dropped the CV down and I'm lifting heavy and taking creatine, BCCA, high protien diet etc I sweat like an absolute pig and I stink like one too.

Odd really as I associated sweating with being unhealthy. I have leather seats in my car and when I drive home from the gym I have a pool of sweat on the seat, no joke, actual puddles of sweat.

I've been lifitng in a gym for about 4 months, but played football for far longer. Started on Creatine and Whey last month and at the moment I'm like you - shirt is absolutely drenched from about half way through a work out.

[mattikake]

Sweating is good for you. It's one of the key features that allowed humans to dominate this planet. Do it loads.

It also only stinks if you sweat a little bit, enough to leave persistent moist patches and cultivate bacteria. Kind of like in the pits of a fat computer programmer who perspires slightly because his numerous fat folds stop his skin from breathing properly, for 8 hours a day at his desk. But if you sweat loads so that it drips off your body, it cleans your skin, flushes out your pores and doesn't give bacteria a stable breeding ground... if you sweat with exercise but stop when slobbing about, then you shouldn't stink either because the bacteria still doesn't have a stable breeding ground.

In this heat I get into several massive sweats a day, don't stink, but do shower but only once a day. Doing loads of regular sweating I reckon is also what contributes to me still passing for being in my 20's.

[Hoofy]

It's the food you eat, too. As I say, eat whey, smell of stale vomit.

[essexplumber]

Hoofy said:

It's the food you eat, too. As I say, eat whey, smell of stale vomit.

Must be, have you ever forgot to wash your shaker out and left it for a day

[anonymous-user]

When I first started going to the gym I used to come out feeling hot and flustered, but not sweating much. These days I end up looking like I've just stepped out of the shower, but feel a LOT more comfortable, so I'd say it's a good thing.

Not very attractive though, unfortunately.