Less sweat than before!

[CrimsonMama]

Is that normal? I don't seem to sweat as much as I used to when I run or do my treadmill work out? Is it a sign your body is more used to it? Does it mean your body is working less hard? My motto used to be 'sweat is good' as I would think of the fat leaving my body through my sweat! Do I need to work harder? Or am I still burning calories the same but just sweating less?

[Shotglass Maintainer]

You do start burning less calories if you don´t up the intensity once your body gets used to it so you might want to increase either your speed or the incline on your treadmill if you notice you´re sweating less and not getting out of breath as much.

[CrimsonMama in reply to Shotglass]

Thank you for replying! I did add ten minutes extra time on my treadmill but although I get tired I don't get covered in sweat like I was. I may indeed need to try to go faster instead of longer then!

[S11m]

Is it because the weather is colder?

Do you monitor your pulse rate?

[CrimsonMama in reply to S11m]

I guess it could be...but for my treadmill exercise use that one is indoors.

[Stoozie]

Hi.

I am guessing you are perhaps concerned by a reduction in sweat because you know that this is one of the ways that the body fat you are losing is leaving your body.

I wondered if it would therefore be useful to understand the quantities involved.

Looking at a loss of 10 kilos or 22 lb (which at 1lb a week is almost half a year of weightloss:

"If you follow the atoms in 10 kilograms of fat as they are 'lost', 8.4 of those kilograms are exhaled as carbon dioxide through the lungs. The remaining 1.6 kilograms becomes water, which may be excreted in urine, faeces, sweat, breath, tears and other bodily fluids."

So in 3-6 months, a dieter losing 1-2lb a week would be looking at losing 1600 ml of water. For the dieter losing 1 lb a week with a few weeks of STS, this would constitute an additional water loss of 10 ml (a dessertspoon) of liquid daily. But this is not all sweat. You need to moisten the breath of the additional faster breathing you do during exercise.

Sorry to be long-winded!

Basically I am saying that not getting sweaty would therefore seem to be not a big problem where it comes to weightloss.

Hope that's been of some use.

Article I quoted from above is here: sciencedaily.com/releases/2...

[CrimsonMama in reply to Stoozie]

I love reading articles like that! Thank you! I have read before about breathing it out and do some breathing exercises (breathe in 3 secs out 7 secs) whilst picturing the fat coming out in molecules!

Did you know it is this fat in carbon dioxide that trees use to give themselves their mass?

Fascinating stuff!

[TheAwfulToad Visitor]

You're getting fitter - which is exactly what's supposed to happen.

Yes, your body is working less hard. More accurately, it's working more efficiently: using less energy to get the same job done.

So yes, you need to work harder! In fact you'll be amazed how quickly your performance improves. Give it a year or so and you'll probably be thinking of running a half-marathon.

Rather than maintaining a constant pace, I suggest you do intervals. Do 2 minutes at a modest speed (one that you think you could keep up for a while) alternating with 1 minute at a pace close to your maximum. Repeat until you've done about 15 minutes (5 cycles). I guarantee you'll be back to sweating, and it's a proven technique for rapid performance gains.

PS don't attempt this if you're drastically overweight, have joint problems, or have a known heart problem. You can still use the same basic method, but don't go all-out on the 1-minute segments.

[CrimsonMama in reply to TheAwfulToad]

Good advice! I'm gonna try this tonight! 😊