Calories and cold weather

Lasmartchika
Lasmartchika Posts: 3,440 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
I hate the new search, can't really find much now, so sorry if this has been asked.

I was wondering if you still burn the same amount of calories in your workouts with cold weather. The thing is that since its getting cooler, colder I'm not getting as hot and sweaty while I'm working out as I was in the summer. So am I burning less since I'm not really sweating? I'm still putting the same hard effort in my workouts. :\

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  • rybo
    rybo Posts: 5,424 Member
    How much you sweat has no bearing on calorie burn.
  • shaun603
    shaun603 Posts: 75
    Lasmartchika wrote: »
    I hate the new search, can't really find much now, so sorry if this has been asked.

    I was wondering if you still burn the same amount of calories in your workouts with cold weather. The thing is that since its getting cooler, colder I'm not getting as hot and sweaty while I'm working out as I was in the summer. So am I burning less since I'm not really sweating? I'm still putting the same hard effort in my workouts. :\

    Your body burns slightly more running in cold weather but not enough to make a real difference. Your metabolic rate increases to warm your body up, more heat means more calories. But definitely not enough that it would make a real impact.
  • jacksonpt
    jacksonpt Posts: 10,413 Member
    The difference isn't significant enough to matter.
  • Wronkletoad
    Wronkletoad Posts: 368 Member
    ^+1

    nope.
  • Lasmartchika
    Lasmartchika Posts: 3,440 Member
    OH... ok, I thought that if I wasn't sweating then maybe I wasn't burning the calories...
  • helenarriaza
    helenarriaza Posts: 517 Member
    Lasmartchika wrote: »
    OH... ok, I thought that if I wasn't sweating then maybe I wasn't burning the calories...

    Zumba, you will sweat even if you're doing it in the snow lol
  • Lasmartchika
    Lasmartchika Posts: 3,440 Member
    I gotta get back to Zumba!!! :D
  • glevinso
    glevinso Posts: 1,895 Member
    Sweat is your body acting like a natural radiator - it cools you down. If you are already cool enough due to the ambient temperature, you won't need to sweat to cool down. Nothing to do with calorie burn.

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