Sweating excessively at gym!

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  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    when i finish a run, i'm soaked like i took a shower in my clothes.
    it's always been that way from when i was skinny kid to overweight to where i am now. and i get red. i look like i'm dying.
    i take a cold shower after and it seems to help enough that i stop sweating before i get to work. but i'm still red.

    at the gym-people just think you have an awesome workout if they notice at all
  • mkw1805
    mkw1805 Posts: 1 Member
    I've always been a heavy sweater as well! The best thing for me is reminding myself that it's the natural way body cools itself down. Some people don't need their bodies cooled much others. I think of it if you were working in an office. One person will find too cold and while others perfect! So with mind get embarrassed. Also when you're at gym sweating lots badass out so hard! keep bandana to wipe off sweat also have band. Can't go without one or other. Don't worry about though. If not that's should be worrying!
  • MikePfirrman
    MikePfirrman Posts: 3,307 Member
    edited November 2018
    Sam, I'm a huge sweater too. Only thing for us to "worry" about is not getting on the lifting stations after cardio. I do my lifting, if I lift at the gym, before cardio. Otherwise, I'm completely gross. I lose 3 lbs a day working out in sweat. At my old gym, on the rower, which was on a mat at that gym over a hard tile floor, I would create sweat puddles. Huge ones. Really nasty but most complimented me on how hard I was working as I always wiped it up and followed up with a disinfectant afterward.

    I'd look in to a good, cheap electrolyte formula/pill. I bought one recently on Amazon that was really cheap (like a 3 month supply for $12). Remember sweat isn't only water, it's minerals too. One risk with sweating a lot is being dehydrated or short on minerals. Since I've been taking this electrolyte tablet, I've felt better. I had two migraines in the last two years and the first time it freaked me out! I couldn't see at all. Went to my eye doc because they found I had a narrow optic nerve years ago and might have to watch out for Glaucoma. When I couldn't see, I was thinking (stupidly) that it was Glaucoma. Eye doc was just like, "no, you're just not getting enough electrolytes". I had no idea that just drinking water wasn't enough.

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