Hot humid weather = more calories burned?

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  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    I seem to be able to lose weight easier in hot humid weather. I feel I burn more calories trying to keep cool. But, I can't prove anything other than my scale moves faster in summer heat.

    Water weight because you sweat more. It feels harder, but it's not.

    You actually burn more calories trying to keep warm. But if you are running in the cold, yor body warms up quickly so it doesn't make much of a difference.
  • Azdak
    Azdak Posts: 8,281 Member
    Then why all the hype with bikram yoga?

    Because people don't know what they are talking about and it's in many people's self-interest to promote inflated calorie burns.
  • Azdak
    Azdak Posts: 8,281 Member
    hmm.. along the same lines.. do you burn more caloires at higher altitudes?? Since you do have to work harder, with the thinner air, to do the same exercises? I cant' run here.. but I can run forever at sea level..

    Just curious..

    Same thing--it feels harder, but the altitude results in a performance decline which means you are likely burning fewer calories, not more.
  • conciergefit
    conciergefit Posts: 1
    Well, now, hold on a minute. I found this. Seems to support the idea that we burn more calories when exercising in higher temperatures.
    http://www.acefitness.org/acefit/healthy-living-article/60/1061/do-i-burn-more-calories-when-it-is-hot/
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    Well, now, hold on a minute. I found this. Seems to support the idea that we burn more calories when exercising in higher temperatures.
    http://www.acefitness.org/acefit/healthy-living-article/60/1061/do-i-burn-more-calories-when-it-is-hot/


    I didn't look up the actual studies but it seems that article is comparing calorie burns but not keeping intensity consistent. It seems to be saying you can exercise longer or at a higher intensity in moderate to warm temperatures allowing for a higher calorie burn, not that the you burn more calories doing the same intensity.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,024 Member
    Well, now, hold on a minute. I found this. Seems to support the idea that we burn more calories when exercising in higher temperatures.
    http://www.acefitness.org/acefit/healthy-living-article/60/1061/do-i-burn-more-calories-when-it-is-hot/
    Actually the article seems just to compare the differences in calories burned between hot and cold weather. Most were thinking that exercising in cold weather burned more.

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  • mohanj
    mohanj Posts: 381 Member
    Then why all the hype with bikram yoga?

    Exactly. It is my observation that people in warmer climate countries tend to be slimmer than their counter parts in colder climate countries.
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    Then why all the hype with bikram yoga?

    Exactly. It is my observation that people in warmer climate countries tend to be slimmer than their counter parts in colder climate countries.

    Correlation does not equal causation.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,024 Member
    Then why all the hype with bikram yoga?

    Exactly. It is my observation that people in warmer climate countries tend to be slimmer than their counter parts in colder climate countries.
    Could also be that a lot of countries at or below the equator are also poorer.

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  • dport7
    dport7 Posts: 123 Member
    I was a heavy highway builder, asphalt, for 37 years. Best work out you can get, ate like a pig all day never gained weight till age 45.

    Now I work out every day in the direct sun for 1 hour, 60 push ups, 60 burpees 100 hamstring stretches, 75 jump lunges, 100 squats, full core workout. I love the heat, hotter the better. Sweating keeps the poison cleaned out of me. For me the after burn lasts a lot longer. I still sweat for an hour after my cool down.

    Don't know if I burn more cals. or not, but I sure feel good and a heck of a good tan.
  • annie52211
    annie52211 Posts: 1
    I wish that this was true cause I would loose weight that much faster. My boyfriend is of the opinion that when you sweat more that you loose more. I had to show him that that is simply not the case. The more that you sweat the more water you loose from your body as it tries to cool itself. You need to remember to stay hydrated in order to prevent dehydration.
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    Then why all the hype with bikram yoga?

    Exactly. It is my observation that people in warmer climate countries tend to be slimmer than their counter parts in colder climate countries.
    You might want to observe more. 13 of the top 15 countries for obesity ranking are equatorially located with hotter climates. 14 if you count the US as a country with a hotter climate, which is true for much of the country. Also, as far as the US goes, the Southern And Southwestern states, with the hottest climates, tend to dominate the obesity rankings for the US.

    Reality is pretty much the exact opposite of your "observations."
  • norcal_yogi
    norcal_yogi Posts: 675 Member
    no
  • darvishzadeh
    darvishzadeh Posts: 1
    you're right.

    you can exercise in dry and cold environment and no sweat at all, that doesn't mean you didn't burn calories.

    I lived 1 year in Tehran which has a dry weather, doing my normal activities and losing weight already (because I don't like sticky feeling, so I was more active), but my hometown and the city i'm living now (Kuala Lumpur) are both humid and gained weight much faster in KL.
  • Valencia123456
    Valencia123456 Posts: 62 Member
    YES! Same intensity+ same impact+ a same time frame but at a higher temperature does burn more calories.

    http://www.livestrong.com/article/373028-does-exercising-in-hot-temperatures-burn-more-fat/


    The reason people are bigger in warmer climates is because they tend to work out less, because they are hot. If they worked out at the same rate they would be slimmer!
  • Azdak
    Azdak Posts: 8,281 Member
    YES! Same intensity+ same impact+ a same time frame but at a higher temperature does burn more calories.

    http://www.livestrong.com/article/373028-does-exercising-in-hot-temperatures-burn-more-fat/


    The reason people are bigger in warmer climates is because they tend to work out less, because they are hot. If they worked out at the same rate they would be slimmer!

    What a surprise-- a Livestrong article in which the author misrepresents research results in order to advance an ideological agenda.

    The 2002 study cited in the article looked at the effects of COLDER temperatures, not the effects of hot temperature. The max workout temp in that study was 20 C or 68F. That is not "hot" by any definition.

    So study showed there was only a fat oxidation difference when cycling at 14 deg F and 32 deg F compared to 68 deg F.

    Typical Livestrong fail.

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