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    Does Hotness Help You Burn?

    Posts: 451 Member
    edited January 28 in Fitness and Exercise
    During outdoor exercise, do you burn more calories if it's hot? Sure feels like it!

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    • Posts: 230 Member
      nah, you just loose more water due to all the sweating
    • Posts: 242 Member
      I thought you meant if you were 'hot' like sexy or cute. LMAO!!!
    • Posts: 1,621 Member
      No. Like morticia said it's water weight. Although there's the theory that if you workout in a warmer environment, your muscles stretch more and prevent injury. Maybe this is true, but I didn't think it was worth the B.O. smell when I tried a hot yoga class!
    • Posts: 780 Member
      I wondered the same thing because during hot yoga they say you burn more calories and I was walking in 102 degree heat last week and wondered if it was like doing hot yoga.
    • Posts: 1,018 Member
      Yes.

      Attractive people help me burn more calories.

      They keep me motivated.
    • Posts: 252 Member
      When your body heats up and sweats to cool off the very act itself does burn additional calories. The water you lose will be replenished but the biological mechanisms that make you sweat do so at a caloric cost and so you will burn more calories in the warm environment. As long as you stay hydrated and don't over do it a bit more sweat isn't necessarily a bad thing though you have to be in good health to endure it.
    • Posts: 2,860 Member
      Yes.

      Attractive people help me burn more calories.

      They keep me motivated.

      you sure have me all fired up!
    • Posts: 34,971 Member
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      you sure have me all fired up!

      Wondered why my HRM goes up and I get a higher cal burn when I see the both of you :flowerforyou:
    • Posts: 1,028 Member
      That's a loaded question...I imagine you'll burn more calories if the body is pushed harder outdoors than indoors. I imagine "hot" people have the opportunity to burn more calories. :wink:

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    • Posts: 114 Member
      I do not think so - in cold weather the body burns more calories trying to stay warm - but I do know that my appetite decreases a lot during hot weather
    • Posts: 2,197 Member
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      you sure have me all fired up!
      Natsu: I'm getting fired up?

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ezCqLy9gcA
    • Posts: 34,971 Member
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      Natsu: I'm getting fired up?

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ezCqLy9gcA

      Seriously..You. Are. Awesome
    • Posts: 1,010 Member
      sweat yes
      burn no

      drink extra water !
    • Posts: 1 Member
      Poaching. Exercising in the heat, giving off water, you slowly poach yourself.
    • Posts: 451 Member
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      Seriously..You. Are. Awesome

      get a room!!! LOL
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