sweating more any benefits?

i was wondering if more sweat meant anything physiologically. for example, does that mean your burning more calories or is it just htat your losing more salt water?

There's no correlation between fitness level and sweat, or exertion level and sweat. Some people sweat more easily and/or more profusely than others, simple as that.

Yes, individual difference plays too large a role to use sweat as a measure of anything. About the only sweat-related fitness change you may notice is that you might start sweating sooner as you become more fit, as your body is more used to/better able to work at cooling itself.

Any product that literally says it will make you sweat more should be avoided, as it simply means it will cause heat stress. While your body will work harder as a result, it won't be in a good way.

1. It is part of the cooling process for your body.

2. It means that you need to hydrate aka drink water or better yet a sports drink.

Sling Skate

Always have been told in the past that people who sweat a lot process water better than those that don't.

Don't have any facts to back that up....but as a person who can drive by the gym and sweat....well of course I'm going to believe it. : ~

My favorite aerobics instructor and I used to do buddy streaching at the end of class and would laugh at who whould drip on the other first....Sweating is not a bad thing! I sweat therefore I am.

I just have to remind myself to keep on sweating in exercise..If not I would not me the man I am today!

Lots of love

And drip drip drip here!

Jeff

I agree, sweat has not many relations with the Weight Loss or exercising intensity. If it is not true, then why people do not exercising in a Wetsuits for example, or they do?

one thing that has been over looked in the previous replies, is detoxicifing characteristics that increased sweat production has on the body. Sure everyone is concerned about weight here, but the more we sweat the more lipids are released through the skin and as an added benefit, i believe, that the liver production of bile is increased therefore removing more toxins in the bloodstream and also improving ones health.

No. If this was true, then folks who sweat buckets just sitting would be the healthiest people on earth. They are not

Hydration, yes; 'sports drink', no. One of the big ripoff con jobs, courtesy of Coke, or whoever bottles that crap. From a hydration POV, ANY type of drink other than water is *less* effective than water. From an electrolyte POV, for most people electrolytes are not even an issue, and for those for whom it is, OJ is more than adequate. Or water and an orange. Or a V8. If the original question is comparing the sweating of two diff. people, this is indeed difficult to answer. But for one individual, at a given level of fitness at given ambient conditions, probably the more you sweat the better, as this is now proportional to caloric expenditure, more or less. Sweating 'should' come after getting flushed (pinkish/reddish skin), depending on ambient conditions. Regardless, sufficient exertion should be made so that both occur. People who sweat too easily might not be getting flushed; people who flush easily might stop exercising before sweating. Both are necessary from a tissue perfusion POV (my pet theory). Increased fitness levels will undoubtedly help normalize sweating abnormalities, ie, those who drench themselves or those who don't sweat 'at all'. But, watch yourself if you are abnormal, as the first can have hydration consequences, and the latter hyperthermia consequences. Seek gradual improvement. Of the people who complain about profuse sweating, most are 'round', suggesting poor vascularity/high thermal insulation from fat tissue. This should adjust itself over time. Of course, consult yer doctor, who probably is closer to a coronary than any of us. IMO, sweating is validly related to detoxification (in the legitimate sense, not in the Gary Null sense), but not by releasing lipids through pores, for godsakes. You get salty after exercise, not greasy, beyond the normal sebum. In fact, sebum production and sweat production might be somewhat mutually exclusive. But maybe not... Sweating in and of itself DOES burn a few calories; simply drinking water burns calories; peeing burns calories. Constipation burns calories AND develops good abs. Which suggests a great new diet/weight loss plan, dudnit? Hogg's Drink Yerself Thin/Pee Yerself Thinner/Strain Yerself to Ripped Abs. Send $5 for the details. Corporate accounts welcome.

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TVS