Self-Conscious About Sweating...

my personal trainer said to me that it's good to sweat, it means your body is working effectively at cooling you down.

i sweat a bucketload, and more now than I used to. it was like a tap, as soon as I started working harder (i reckon I never used to get past the point of working at about 75%, but once I reached the next level, the tap turned on, and now, as soon as my heart rate gets up, the sweat starts).

And, yep, in the yoga classes i am the one towelling down numerous times, while everyone else doesn't even break a sweat. but I always do cardio before my yoga class, so my body is warm and working, and I find that if you do the poses properly, holding the correct internal muscles, you heat up, as opposed to many people who don't use the internal muscles at all.

I don't feel bad about it. i don't exercise to look good, i don't exercise to show off my fashionable workout wear, i don't wear make up while i work out, i work out to work out, and if i don't sweat profusely, i know i just haven't worked hard enough.

like they say in spin / cycle classes, if you aren't sweating on the floor, you really aren't working hard enough.

Hell no, the more I sweat the better I feel! I feel like it gives me power, I can do the hard work outs! And think of all the crap you are sweating out all that sodium and other crap I don't need!!!!

i've given up trying to look respectable while i'm running - i get really sweaty, i go a (not very) fetching shade of pink, my hair gets rebellious and i'm pretty sure my facial expressions and smudged makeup don't help the cause either!

i don't really care if people recoil in horror though - if i'm working hard, why should i expect to look like i'm not?! and if anyone's daft enough to make fun of me, i just beam and think smug thoughts about them obviously not being very well acquainted with physically demanding work themselves :laugh:

I'm not a crazy sweater but I'm a pink/red-face exerciser. Always have been b/c of my fair/pink completion, I've never been overweight and have worked out regularly for 7+ years so it’s not a matter of being out of shape. It happens and it's just something you deal with.

In high-school after gym class tossing back on a uniform kind-of sucked but as an adult it doesn't stop me from heading to the mall after the gym. I toss on a hat and off I go, power walking through the mall… often unconsciously lol!

Oh, I know how embarrassing that is. It makes me not want to work out in a gym. I just pour buckets of sweat from everywhere. My face gets red as a tomato. It's mortifying b/c people are cruel and just don't understand that everyone's sweat glands work differently. I can't help but think it's better to sweat more b/c that means your body is doing its job of cooling off. It's the people that hardly sweat at all that need to be careful about overheating. But sweat has such a stigma.

yea, being at goal weight doesn't have any influence on my sweat! i sweat profusely!!! even my eyebrows sweat... but i'm proud of it! i feel awesome when i'm sweating like that!!

Honestly, I sweat so much at the gym, and the worst of it is that it is only really on my face. Everywhere else sweats a normal amount.

And to top it all off, I go the colour of a tomato. all heat in my body just rushes to my face.

However, at least I know I have worked hard! And that the pounds are falling off because I am getting a good cardio workout.

I have been doing a spin class and I can feel the sweat pouring off my face & down my hair. It is gross! Especially when you can't towel off fast enough and it's getting in your mouth, lol. I feel like I look **** afterwards but I don't care. I'm not there to impress and I sweat a lot anyway.

When I was younger I was more self-conscious about it. It became a big joke with me and my friends (still is) that I "sweat like a man". Now, I *LOVE* it. I've always been this way. I can literally walk onto the basketball court and start pouring the sweat.

I'm with the other poster - embrace it!