Sweat lots? What does it mean???

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I'm one of those guys who sweat a lot. In my spinning class, if I don't put a towel under my bike, there'd be a puddle! I'm drenched when finished. Others sweat but few come near as much as I do....and I've rarely seen woman pouring sweat too....what's with that?? (not to suggest they aren't putting-out effort, they just don't seem to pour sweat like some men).

Anyways...from one perspective (thermally speaking), perspiration is the bodies response to use the evaporative effect to help cool the body. Given a warm enough environment, anyone will sweat even if they are just sitting still...but add exercise and perspiration is sure to follow.

I want to know if there's more to it then just the body cooling itself...on a psyiological level, is it indicative of anything significant?? Does it mean I've got a higher capacity to generate energy and this generates a lot of heat? My heart-rate monitor shows HUGE amounts of calories burned during class versus some little gal sitting next to me...so is my greater energy expended related to my quantity of perspiration??

And let me put it this way: I've been told that if you are biking along really hard and then stop, a sign of a healthy heart is that your heart-rate drops down fairly quickly.....so in terms of perspiring, what does LOTS of perspiration signify???

Thanks!
 
Hey well firstly your right, woman dont in fact sweat as much as men.

Its usually as you said a cooling response, but can also be stimulated when your anxious or nervous. I wouldnt pinpoint perspiration as the reason you have a higher output then the little girl next to you.

I wouldnt think perspiration has much to do with your fitness but its ability to regulate heat which is defenitely an improver of performance. Its possible from training to lower threshold to sweat, less sodium content etc.

It defenitely has some to do with genetics. Some people hardly brake a sweat even when under hot conditions. While others create more heat and therefore the capacity to sweat more - for example some poeple after eating a meal tend to feel a little hotter and this would indicate that they have a higher metabolism.
 
It's the other way around for me and my bofriend. I always break a sweat if I do anything that's the least amount of cardio. I've always broken into a sweat from being nervous. He on the other hand rarely sweats. It's weird. We'll go biking and he doesn't sweat! I don't understand that. He also doesn't drink much water.
 
It means you probably have what is called a "champions sweat rate." Therefore it means more than anythign else-

YOU MUST INCLUDE THIS ELEMENT IN YOUR TRAINING AND EVENT PLANNING!!!! OR you will me cramping and injury ridden. Especially with a guy like you, who is a bit nuts, and endurance minded.

your thigh is hydration! until you incorporate electrolytes, and hydration planning, you will have problems with your muscles after 120 minutes- PERIOD!

sorry- I only have two legs and thousands of miles to back my position. No edumacation at all.

Sweat Daily!
FF
 
Thanks for the responses. I do hydrate, I drink before, during and after. I'm the guy in spinning class with 2 bottles of water and I add an electrolyte/recovery agent to both bottles. The class runs 1.5 hours so I actually figure 45 minutes to each bottle and divy it up so I have liquid throughout: I plan!!!!!

I still contend there's some metabolic/psysiologic relationship between sweating and one's capacity to generate energy and their physical condition. I've also emailed my nutritionist-guru, it'll be interesting to see what he has to say.
 
I am a very heavy sweater too. I always have been. In high school at 6'5", 175 (skinny), I sweat a lot. When I got heavy, 260 lbs, I sweat a lot. I sweat a lot today.

Back in high school when we would play weekend football games, my friends always said it was hard to tackle me because they would slide off from the sweat. (We played in shorts and t-shirts)

During the summer, going out for a 5 mile run, I will be 5 lbs lighter when I get back than when I left. I will be dripping sweat all over when I get back to the house.

My volleyball team also doesn't appreciate it much that I make the ball all slimy when I hit it.

I have been told there is something you can take to help control it, but I am not really interested in trying to manipulate my sweat rate. If my body needs to sweat, I am going to let it sweat.
 
BikeSwimLaugh said:
Thanks for the responses. I do hydrate, I drink before, during and after. I'm the guy in spinning class with 2 bottles of water and I add an electrolyte/recovery agent to both bottles. The class runs 1.5 hours so I actually figure 45 minutes to each bottle and divy it up so I have liquid throughout: I plan!!!!!

I still contend there's some metabolic/psysiologic relationship between sweating and one's capacity to generate energy and their physical condition. I've also emailed my nutritionist-guru, it'll be interesting to see what he has to say.
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I hope you will share with us what the guru says too. the Electrolyte type may be the thing too. the add to water types are not the only electrolyte out there. NUUN is a good one, and that energ-C I guess. I do not take either of those, they are loaded with sugar or something that give me a funny throat feeling. I get some from the whole foods store that are capsules. They have also entrod a few new times at the Ironman events I've been to.

My apologies for not answering the way you were looking for. but all I've got is me.
 
p.s. what you drink during your workout is nto the solution to the center of your muscles buring dry. The week or days leading up to your workouts is.

for example: I will run 24 miles this sunday. Yesterday, today and tomorrow I am loading up with electrolytes.... in anticipation for a fairly hot long run on Sunday. Yes I will drink,,, but that is ..............

nevermind.

carry on
 
BSL, it means you have LOTS of laundry to do!! :newangel:

Actually, I really believe that a person's sweat rate is tied more to their genetics than their body's metabolic efficiency or thermogenic capacity. The body responds to certain stimuli and chemical/temp data by sweating--genetics determines the amount of sweat expended.

The efficiency of your metabolism may control those triggers, so it's not that the two aren't connected somehow, but the sweating itself is more of an "effect" than a "cause" in the metabolic chain.

That's my take on what I learned when I googled "sweat metabolism" and researched hyperhidration. Might be totally BS, but I thought I'd share it.
 
I sweat alot generally when I drink more water but thats to state the obvious there lol... its especially embrasssing when you sweat so much running on a treadmill after 5ish miles and the person next to you is walking while your trying not to deflect your sweat there way.. lol... its embarassing as well as kind of humorous in a way.
 
I dont think its influenced by fitness,
But can be altered by training and the particular environment.

Thats why people talk about acclimitising.

Our soccer team had to play in asia where it reached up to 40 degrees.
Giving yourself time and training in these conditions will produce a number of physiological adaptations. Regarding sweat - more even distribition, lower threshold, more sweat produced etc

If its humid though, then sweating doesnt really hav emuch to offer
 
burneeed said:
I sweat alot generally when I drink more water but thats to state the obvious there lol... its especially embrasssing when you sweat so much running on a treadmill after 5ish miles and the person next to you is walking while your trying not to deflect your sweat there way.. lol... its embarassing as well as kind of humorous in a way.
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Be proud. Ironmen and women take total pride is sweat puddles, and who can get wetter, go longer, and sustain (almost sounds sexual hehee). Anyhow- I sweat alot too. Do not be embarrassed of it.

Sweat serenly and proudly!!!!

Sweaters unite!!!

as a matter of fact- when i play g8r80 in raquetball tomorrow I will flip sweat in his eyes for you, in your honor!
 
matt182 said:
I dont think its influenced by fitness,
But can be altered by training and the particular environment.
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Thanks for all the responses. I'm not worried about it, embarrassed by it or anything weird...I'm just curious to learn if one of my trainers was right in that she suggested that sweating is indicative of a very healthy body...

Like I said earlier, if your heart-rate falls back to normal/lower-numbers very quickly, they say it means your heart is healthy. My trainer similarly suggested that my sweating was indicative of a healthy condition. I more suspect, as do the rest of you, that it's just the body responding and little more. So I asked, and we are discussing. I'll let you know what my nutritionist/dietician/trainer-guru says...I bet it's an opinion! ;)

On a good note, not that I would need to...but if you sweat a lot, in spinning class....you need only squint your eyes and grit your teeth and nobody will know you're not on the verge of collapse! :)

On another odd note...when I workout in my own gym, I wear very form-fitting clothes: I'd rather have a moist 2nd-skin on me then a wet, hanging and flopping around shorts/t-shirt. A fan helps to, lets the evaporation-effect do it's thing. They won't run the fan in spinning class...no idea why not. I bought a small personal fan and some rechargable batteries...I'll show them they can't deprive me of moving air! :D
 
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