Garbage bag while working out? Is this really bad?
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Only if you are making a rap video
That is freaking funny! I needed that!0 -
What everyone else said...you will lose too much water - not weight....not a good idea at all.0
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I don't see how it can be dangerous.. you can buy sauna suits that help you sweat more. It just sheds more water.
Just because you can buy it, doesn't make it safe. The fitness industry is chock full of inadvisable equipment.
Where do you think that water you're "shedding" comes from?0 -
I used to see this at my old gym and I never understood it. Unless you are a jockey or a boxer or something that you need to make weight for, why would you do this? It does make you sweat more but it's not like sweat is fat melting out of your pores!
Plus the people at my gym who used to do it would leave huuuuuge puddles of sweat by their machines, like rain puddles, it was so gross.0 -
I used to see this at my old gym and I never understood it. Unless you are a jockey or a boxer or something that you need to make weight for, why would you do this? It does make you sweat more but it's not like sweat is fat melting out of your pores!
Plus the people at my gym who used to do it would leave huuuuuge puddles of sweat by their machines, like rain puddles, it was so gross.
Ya that is pretty gross.0 -
It's pretty simple.
If you want to get hotter and sweat more during a workout, work out harder.
^^This. Or turn up the heat!0 -
Yeah I agree it sounds dangerous and just dehydrating not fat burning0
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I think it just depends on the plastic bag. The cheap ones suck but imo get Glad EXTRA STRONG bags. I hear these work the best for fast fat weight loss and suffocation. Just ask Dr Oz.
haha im only kidding. :laugh:dont put the bag on your head.
:smooched: :flowerforyou:
But seriously...While it MAY...and I use that loosely...may give fast results...they will only be temporary. A better bet to rid yourself of water weight is to drink water.0 -
While my wife and I have a work out session i like to wrap her up in saran wrap does that count. Ok not really but I just had to say that.0
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Ditto to what everyone else has said about this. Also, in all seriousness, from a woman to a woman, building up all kinds of sweat down there is inviting a yeast infection to the party. Yuck.0
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This is completely unnecessary. The body burns calories more efficiently the cooler the body is.
At best, you lose water weight, which isn't necessarily a good thing. At worst, this can cause serious health issues.0 -
I use to do that all the time when I wrestled in high school. All is does is make you sweat like crazy, it won't increase your calorie burn or anything like that.
Unless you are an athlete and need to drop a few pounds of water weight really quickly (wrestler, boxer, MMA, or something along those lines), I wouldn't even attempt it.0 -
I don't see how it can be dangerous.. you can buy sauna suits that help you sweat more. It just sheds more water.
Just because you can buy it, doesn't make it safe. The fitness industry is chock full of inadvisable equipment.
Where do you think that water you're "shedding" comes from?
Point taken.0 -
It's seriously bad and totally pointless, you lose water and put your body under stress. My (daft) brother did this in his teens when training for a half marathon, and started bleeding when urinating and had partial renal failure from which he fortunately recovered. You know it's stupid, that's why you strated the thread so DON'T DO IT.0
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I don't see how it can be dangerous.. you can buy sauna suits that help you sweat more. It just sheds more water.
Dehydration, heat stroke, renal failure, heart failure, coma, death.0 -
If we all agree that sweating more does not help weight loss, can we all agree that that Hot Yoga (Birkim??) is also no more beneficial than regular yoga?
The point of hot yoga is not to lose more weight by sweating, but that heat makes your muscles more flexible. Even regular yoga seeks to keep heat in the body in order to increase flexibility.0 -
Only if you are making a rap video
I seriously LOL'd at your reply.0 -
Dangerous. Don't do it. Sauna suits are dangerous also. It dehydrates you--fighters do it to make weight. You are risking heat stroke among other things.0
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People! Stop interfering with Darwin!0
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