Sweat more 😅

Yep. I train pretty hard daily and hardly sweat. For me I think it's my genetics. With both my parents being born in humid hot places.
Now I will sweat more IF I wear more layers, but when I workout it's usually just shorts and a tank top.

As for sweating, it doesn't have anything really to do with burning more fat. People associate "fat burning/melting" with heat because they see it in cooking. Body doesn't work that way. You sweat for one reason............to cool your body down. That's it. Raising your body temperature initiates it, but people sweat without working out. Nervousness, anxiety, etc. can trigger it. And that doesn't mean they are burning more fat effectively because it.

If you're not burning more fat off, it's usually more about your intake/expenditure (CICO) than anything else. Do you count your calories correctly? Do you use a food scale?

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It takes a lot for me to sweat, a lot and I trian hard most days. Sweat isn't any indication of how hard you are training.

everyone is different. I dont sweat much, regardless of how intense my workout is.

I’ve been called Swamp Thing at my gym, it really sucks because I sweat so prolifically. Be happy you don’t sweat much.

TNjason wrote: »

Count your blessings. I leave a trail of sweat during workouts.

As other posts have said, there's little-to-no correlation between sweat and fat loss. I'd say there's likely a correlation between sweat and water weight loss, but that's about it (and hydration).

If you want to fit-in and get your sweat on, there are clothes you can wear to prompt more sweat. You can get a sauna tank-top and wear it underneath a shirt or tank (or just wear it like normal). They're pretty effective. There are also sauna jackets and pants, but I haven't tried them. They'd likely be harder to wear during a workout and not get in the way.

Please don’t suggest wearing those sauna type clothing for workouts, losing a bunch of water weight is not a food idea. Fat loss is what he needs not water weight loss. As soon as he hydrates himself the water weight will return, which of course, is a good thing. Being dehydrated is not good.

HaniKhateeb wrote: »

Hi all
What am writing here sounds strange, but it is true?
I burn my a** in the gym but I do not sweat like my friends.
I mean we train with same workouts, their shirts became like a wet towel while I nearly have small drops on my forehead and my short is dry!

Is this normal? Especially, am facing difficulty with burning stubborn fat, is this may be the reason for slow metabolism?
How to increase my sweat system?

I'm curious if you are like me - I can work very hard in a well air conditioned gym and barely sweat, but if I am outside on a hot day have no problems sweating.

I don't sweat much in the weight room...I sweat a ton on my bike.

Speakeasy76 wrote: »

I read a long time ago that the fitter you are, the less you'll sweat during your workouts.

I also think it has to do with genetics and our own internal body temperature. I often run "cold" and don't sweat a lot.

I vote genetics, mostly.

My n=1 is that I sweated apallingly when obese and unfit, obese and pretty fit, and thin and pretty fit: Neither fitness nor fatness seem to make much difference, I sweat buckets regardless.

I row in a double (two person sculling shell) with another woman close to my age. We've both been doing this activity frequently for a long time. She works hard, I work hard. Our fitness level is probably fairly similar. Routinely, when the weather's even remotely warm, I get back to the dock soaked in sweat pretty much all over. Most times, she might at most have a small trickle of sweat on her chest. (Or so she tells me - I can't see her chest, but I can see the rest of her: My t-shirt, hair, etc., are soaked. She is not.) If it's hot enough for her to sweat more than that, one of us might comment on it, because it's so rare to see. 🤷‍♀️

Bodies are weird.

Totally normal. I’m a major sweater. You are not. It is just the way it is.