Girls who don't sweat? How?

2

Replies

  • knittnponder
    knittnponder Posts: 1,953 Member
    I used to be bothered by how much I sweat, now I just let it flow! I can't stop it so why worry about it.
  • emAZn
    emAZn Posts: 413 Member
    If you sweat as much as I do lets be friends....

    I wear an 80s sweat band if I'm doing any form of cardio... best invention ever...

    I feel bad for my drivers seat of my car and feel like I need to steam clean it...

    BACNE - Back-Acne - ... effing sucks...

    I weigh 2-3 lbs less when I'm done with my long runs ... holla!!
  • ashkinlaw
    ashkinlaw Posts: 77 Member
    If you sweat as much as I do lets be friends....

    I wear an 80s sweat band if I'm doing any form of cardio... best invention ever...

    I feel bad for my drivers seat of my car and feel like I need to steam clean it...

    BACNE - Back-Acne - ... effing sucks...

    I weigh 2-3 lbs less when I'm done with my long runs ... holla!!


    Let's be friends, sexyyyy!
  • emAZn
    emAZn Posts: 413 Member
    Ha ha my bf was just asked what I was doing and I said I'm writing a post about much I sweat and he said yeah you sweat a lot
  • ithina
    ithina Posts: 23
    Every time I move I sweat, even if it's just leisurely walking around the mall. Everyone's like, "are you ok?" I'm fine.. it's just me. When I work out I sweat a lot. I've actually started putting a towel on my car seat when I drive home from the gym. I have to take a shower after I stop sweating too or I'll get bad acne everywhere.
  • amwoidyla
    amwoidyla Posts: 257 Member
    It seems like I only sweat from a few places, like my lower back. I get really self concious about it because hey...butt sweat. My boyfriend says it's because I'm not working hard enough! I just don't sweat from every pore like other people do.
  • missanguissette
    missanguissette Posts: 7
    I don't sweat much either and I wish I did in order to cool down. i can sweat if I am working out at a hard pace for almost an hour [in a hot room...if the air is on i'm screwed] but anything else and I'm not sweating. kind of frustrating.
  • JumpinJill
    JumpinJill Posts: 63 Member
    I don't understand it when I look around at the gym or at yoga and see girls who are working hard and NOT sweating. It's just not fair! I start sweating buckets like, within the first five minutes of working out. I feel like people must look at me and think it's gross! Girls who don't sweat, how is this possible? Is it relative to fitness?

    It's certain dry. Get a bottle and rub it on. Make sure you get your forehead and around your neck.....


    No seriously, I sweat a lot! I like it. It makes me feel like I am getting in a good workout and when it starts pouring down my face I just push myself harder. It's my motivator. To go with the above, my armpits are the only place I don't sweat, love that certain dry, no gym stink after a workout and no white residue on my black shirts and bras.
  • mrsPaananen72
    mrsPaananen72 Posts: 13 Member
    I´m hypothyroid. When my meds weren´t in right level, I didn´t sweat. But now when they are perfect, I do - and a lot. So glad I have a crosstrainer at home so I don´t need to go to gym for it.
  • lonnieart
    lonnieart Posts: 24 Member
    I get a filmy sweat mostly. The only places I really get sweaty are places I'd really prefer not to (ex: underarms).

    I'm afraid it'll look like I'm a wimp because I AM working, but I'm sooo out of shape, and without buckets of sweat, getting off the treadmill before everyone else just looks like I'm pathetic and not even working.

    Don't get me wrong though, I like that I don't do the rolling drenched with sweat thing. I've never lived in a place that wasn't incredibly humid. And I grew up in (and am about to move back to) Texas. Not west Texas (dry desert). Hot, humid, I-can't-even-breathe Texas. So yeah, I'm happy about that. It's possible that beyond the genetics factor, if you live in a humid area, it can be your body realizing that releasing more sweat actually makes things worse, so it eases off (the same way that washing your hair too often makes your scalp produce more oil.. but in reverse? heh). Of course, that's just an idea, I don't even know.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    This content has been removed.
  • jollyjoe321
    jollyjoe321 Posts: 529 Member
    Depends on the individual, I personally sweat more when I'm fitter, remember, the more you sweat the more heat your body can dissipate!

    High five to anyone else who turns embarrassingly red like me! =)
  • metaphoria
    metaphoria Posts: 1,432 Member
    I dont sweat easily, which means I can feel overheated and ill if I go hard. But then if I push past that, I start to sweat so it's all good again. I guess my body has an all or nothing attitude. This may be why I like HIIT. With running, it's the wierdest thibg, I dont really sweat until I am done and back in the house, then I just pour while I'm getting my protein drink ready.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    chicks don't sweat, they perspire....
  • metaphoria
    metaphoria Posts: 1,432 Member
    chicks don't sweat, they perspire....

    Yeah and pregnant women glow. :laugh:
  • RunnerElizabeth
    RunnerElizabeth Posts: 1,091 Member
    Tell me something... When you see the classic sexy workout woman shot.. Is she dry or do they have her all glistening and covered with what looks like sweat?

    Yeah typically they oil her up or spray water on her so that it beads..

    Why?

    Cuz sweat is sexy.


    Own it. I do. :-D

    This completely reminds me of those terrible shows, Hercules, Xena and the Beastmaster and others like them. For the most part they had very attractive casts with terrible acting skills. But I always used to say that you could tell if you were supposed to find the character attractive by how moist they were.

    Moist = sweaty = sexy
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    Tell me something... When you see the classic sexy workout woman shot.. Is she dry or do they have her all glistening and covered with what looks like sweat?

    Yeah typically they oil her up or spray water on her so that it beads..

    Why?

    Cuz sweat is sexy.


    Own it. I do. :-D

    This completely reminds me of those terrible shows, Hercules, Xena and the Beastmaster and others like them. For the most part they had very attractive casts with terrible acting skills. But I always used to say that you could tell if you were supposed to find the character attractive by how moist they were.

    Moist = sweaty = sexy


    Call me the Angelina Jolie/Meghan Fox/Marilyn Monroe of fitness. :drinker:
  • hp831
    hp831 Posts: 7
    sweating is necessary for your health! It's your body's way of cooling off and avoiding overheating. If you didn't sweat you wouldn't be able to workout as hard, and long runs would cause nerve/muscle damage and possible kill you. As someone who is drenched after 5 minutes of running, I try to embrace it. Even though it is kind of disgusting.
  • MrsMX
    MrsMX Posts: 98
    Its an interesting topic and all of the comments and replies are good also!!


    I've never been one to sweat ..
    Not for many years and i'm wondering if it was due to poor circulation
    or smoking (gave up almost 3 years now) or just lack of enthusiasm in general physical activity ..

    For the first time in my life I am more active than ever ..
    I got a mountain bike several months ago
    and would ride 20kms (12 miles) and still not sweat ..
    I started walk/running and doing Jillian Michaels and finally I break a sweat..
    I even sweat riding the dirt bike now and have noticed I feel a lot better for it

    For me it feels healthier to sweat :))x

    great topic:flowerforyou:
  • lindakeigher
    lindakeigher Posts: 8
    I'm one of those girls who doesn't sweat that much, unless it's really hot or humid outside. I worry the opposite though, that people will think I'm not trying hard because I'm not sweating that much. I swear I'm pouring my heart out, it's just air conditioned in the gym!!

    It takes a lot for me to sweat! I exercise three times a week and there really isn't much sweat off of me. I am tired and I drink loads of water whilst exercising. I find though I pass urine a great deal right after.
  • madaleingericke
    madaleingericke Posts: 49 Member
    I read somewhere that some people have more sweat glands than others. And the they sweat more than others.
  • PinkNinjaLaura
    PinkNinjaLaura Posts: 3,202 Member
    This is interesting. I will get sweaty but not to the point where my shirt gets wet. My face gets super red, I overheat very easily, and I will start to smell sweaty.
  • sybrix
    sybrix Posts: 134 Member
    I sweat like whoa. It sucks because I'll walk a couple blocks in hot weather and start pouring sweat for just no reason. It makes me feel like a wimp, sweating like that when I'm not even exerting myself!

    Although, I tend to tolerate extreme heat well. It's been in the high 90s, low 100s this summer, and I managed not to die or pass out. :smile:
  • chirosche
    chirosche Posts: 66 Member
    People use to observe that about me in the gym. They'd say why don't you sweat. I can tell you workout hard. A trainer asked me if I drank water. Well, I didn't drink water. As soon as I started drinking water, I started sweating. But I also have noticed, the more in shape I become, the less I sweat. But sweating is the body's way of cooling off. That is why they tell pregnant women not to train too hard cardio wise because the baby can't cool off. So it's natural and it's a good thing.
  • BeckyMBisMe
    BeckyMBisMe Posts: 215 Member
    I could sweat in a damn blizzard! :grumble:
    I always hated to sweat in public and it's one of the reasons I avoided physical activity for most of my life. (besides laziness :embarassed: )
    But to hell with what someone else thinks of my sweat. Bring it on!
  • CrazyAnimalLady
    CrazyAnimalLady Posts: 104 Member
    I sweat so much at the gym that I look like a drowning elephant. Seriously, it's disgusting. My face, hair and clothes are soaking wet, and I'm sure it doesn't help that I go to a crossfit gym with no AC in South Florida. The people at Costco love me when I decide to drop by after working out....haha
  • munchkin0518
    munchkin0518 Posts: 32
    I almost never sweat. Never bought or used deodorant in my life, nor have ever experienced the "gray-shirt-sweat-stain" phenomenon. I think it's genetics? That said, if I exert myself in baking weather, yeah I'll sweat a bit above the mouth, near the temples, etc.
  • reedandmalloy
    reedandmalloy Posts: 43
    I always sweat and always have. Even when I was young and a size 3. It sucks because I feel dirty constantly...if I get dressed nice to go somewhere, I'm sweaty and gross by the time I get there. It doesn't matter if I'm in air conditioning or not. Most of the time I change shirts at least twice a day. And I'm constantly carrying a towel in my car because as soon as I get in my face, neck, back, and chest just start pouring sweat. I used to play tennis with a friend of mine...in the 90 degree weather with super high Southern Illinois humidity and she would not have one ounce of sweat on her. I would have to peel the clothes off of me. :(
  • nutritionstudent12
    nutritionstudent12 Posts: 12
    Sweat is just a sign that your body's cooling system is working well!
    So congratulations on a good cooling system, or else you'd probably end up red and really hot.
    It's no sign of your fitness.

    I sweat like crazy, after just my warm up and i've been working out at least 4 days a week for 5 years.
  • jennz81
    jennz81 Posts: 194 Member
    I'm one of those unlucky people who sweat buckets. By the time I'm done with my workout, it looks like I just hopped out of the shower.

    What's worse is how awful I smell. I decided to nix the shower one night and just head home, and my husband had to put the windows down the smell was so bad.

Categories