Sweating

lorigrocks
lorigrocks Posts: 123 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Does anyone else have extensive sweating during their workout? I sweat so much it tends to be embarrassing - I drink lots of water and also always have a towel handy to wipe up the sweat...which I have to do often. Anything I can do to ease the amount of sweat? lol. It is so embarrassing when I am the only one every single time in the classes that sweat so much!

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  • ROBOTFOOD
    ROBOTFOOD Posts: 5,527 Member
    Your not alone. I'm always drenched. If I'm in a spin class, there will be puddles all around me. I bring beach towels with me. Sweating is a good thing. Just can be annoying sometimes.
  • hbrittingham
    hbrittingham Posts: 2,518 Member
    Yes, I sweat a LOT when I am running or doing any other hard cardio. I'll be on the treadmill wiping the sweat off my face, neck and chest and look over at all the other women who are effortlessly running along with maybe a bit of pink in their cheeks and no sweat to be found. It makes me envious!
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    Not just you. I turn totally red and sweat profusely even during moderate to easy exercise. I've just learned to embrace it and usually make a joke about it whenever I'm around someone I know.
    There is nothing that I have found to alleviate it. Strategic clothing planning (light/fun color pants may not be your friend if you sweat enough to make it look like you peed yourself), tie hair up tight (swinging pony tail also flings sweat), having a towel handy and creative ways to freshen up after for things like races are also ways I manage.

    Oh and if you run, I wear a wrist sweat band to help wipe my face. I could never figure out what those things were for other than bad fashion until one spring day I was running in a tank top. My last run I had had to wear a long sleeve to keep warm and was using the sleeve to wipe. In the tank top I lamented not having a sleeve to wipe with and it dawned on me.
  • Kathy535
    Kathy535 Posts: 31 Member
    I.' the same, I go beet red and the sweat is dripping down my face. At body pump it drips off my elbows! I get sweat marks everywhere and my head seems to sweat too so I always have to wash my hair after exercise. I look at the other women around me looking calm and daisy fresh and I'm so envious.
  • lorigrocks
    lorigrocks Posts: 123 Member
    Thank you so much...while I don't wish this on anyone its good to know I am not alone! I too turn beat red and the sweat drips off of me and the worst part is my workout is an hour of kickboxing and for half of the class we have to have a partner...each time it is someone different and I am always worried I am grossing the other person out...it's awful :-( Then when the class is finished several people ask me if I'm alright cuz of my beat red face and sweat so I always say oh I am just fine I just sweat alot! I don't know what else to say lol.

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