Sweaty People

[BinkyD]

I've heard that during exercise the fitter you are, the more you sweat...........does anyone know if thats correct?

[mike42]

actually i heard the reverse we used to play football with a guy who was far fitert than us and he sweated less and run longer.

[Ethel]

The fitter you are the longer it takes to get your heart rate up during exercise, the easier you breathe and the less you sweat.

You watch an obviously unfit person strolling on a warm day - they will be sweating profusely.

[BinkyD]

This comment came from a gym instructor & it made me think. My partner is extremely fit & he sweats. Dont know if it also has something to do with the amount of liquids taken onboard!

[Miss Inquiry]

I think it all depends on how your body works, everyone is individual.

I do 3 classes a week, go to gym twice a week and swim once a week and have been doing so for years now. I hardly sweat, which really annoys me as I feel like people look at me thinking why is she not sweating, she's not working hard enough.

On the other hand, my boyfriend, who does the same amount of excercise, is sweaing 2 min after getting into the gym.

Then you have the really unfit who sweat even thinking about going to the gym.

[Octavius]

Studies have shown that people who are aerobically fit do sweat more, and begin sweating more quickly, than people who are less fit, when they are exercising at similar relative intensities.

Relative intensity means a fixed percentage, say 80 percent, of individuals' maximal aerobic power, which is ascertained from a person's oxygen uptake and carbon dioxide production during exercise.

Exercise physiologists compare people who are exercising at the same relative intensity, rather than doing an identical task, because they are trying to understand how the body adapts to training, and what happens to sweating, heart rate, oxygen consumption, etc., as people get close to their physical limits, whatever those limits are.

Fit people get more sweaty, more quickly when they are pushing themselves equally hard with respect to their own physical limits. Other individual differences, including gender (on average, men sweat more than women), also influence sweating.

The argument being that fit people sweat more 'efficiently' but there are many factors that influence this.

http://www.tinajuanfitness.info/articles/05310 5.htm

[Rubyrose]

Thats cr@p!!! I am so unfit and I sweat loads when I exercise!! I also know some very fit people indeed who barely get breathless, let alone sweat!

[Octavius]

I agree Ruby. I would consider myself aerobically fit and I break out into a sweat just opening my wallet.

[VannaB]

I believe that the fitter you are the more you sweat (and the sooner you sweat), simply because the body has become more efficient in what it does whilst exercising, so cools itself down sooner.

[johnlambert]

I jog/run between 7 + 13 miles each day, I dont sweat much, but I do sweat, it depends on the weather, humidity and how hard I push myself, I always check my pulse and BP before + after I excersise,as a rule of thumb the shorter the time your pulse takes to get back to normal, the fitter you are. My pulse at rest is 65 BPM and it usualy takes 90 secs- 2 mins to get back to that.