Sweating at the gym

Tracie65
Tracie65 Posts: 61 Member
edited November 9 in Fitness and Exercise
This is just out of curiosity, I recently started going back to the gym and I noticed that I really sweat a lot and no one else seems to be at all. As soon as I get warmed up I start sweating and my face turns bright red, lol. Everyone else looks normal, and I am getting really self concious about it. Has anyone else ever noticed this? I was at the gym for an hour, when I left my shirt was soaked, how does everyone else look so cool even the people really running on the treadmill? Just wondering, hope I'm not alone in this!! LOL
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  • MissingMinnesota
    MissingMinnesota Posts: 7,486 Member
    I am always dripping when I leave the gym. Some people sweat a lot, some people a little and some people don't. No one is looking at your sweat and thinking ewww. Most don't notices but if they do see you they know you are working out. Well unless dripping sweat and not cleaning your machine then people think your nasty.

    I also think people will judge more if you aren't sweating then if you are sweating.
  • Tracie65
    Tracie65 Posts: 61 Member
    Eww, no I ALWAYS clean the machine, that's just gross not to!! :)
  • crystaldkelley
    crystaldkelley Posts: 47
    I wouldn't think eww if i seen a sweaty person leaving the gym, id think dang they got their workout on!! I have seen people workout way longer than me and they talk and laugh and carry on while i winded and having trouble breathing, im thinking WTF??? Don't let this discourage you from working out, im almos 100% positive your motivating someone there :)
  • thefuzz1290
    thefuzz1290 Posts: 777 Member
    Sweat and be proud! If you're not sweating, you're not working hard enough. As long as you clean the equipment, no one will care.
  • Di3012
    Di3012 Posts: 2,247 Member
    This is just out of curiosity, I recently started going back to the gym and I noticed that I really sweat a lot and no one else seems to be at all. As soon as I get warmed up I start sweating and my face turns bright red, lol. Everyone else looks normal, and I am getting really self concious about it. Has anyone else ever noticed this? I was at the gym for an hour, when I left my shirt was soaked, how does everyone else look so cool even the people really running on the treadmill? Just wondering, hope I'm not alone in this!! LOL

    When I used to go to the gym, I would sweat like a pig! Now I just do my training indoors and I still sweat like a pig :laugh:
  • junyr
    junyr Posts: 416 Member
    No sweat at the gym is wasted money.
  • live4turns
    live4turns Posts: 314 Member
    I was at the gym for an hour, when I left my shirt was soaked, how does everyone else look so cool even the people really running on the treadmill? Just wondering, hope I'm not alone in this!! LOL

    I leave the gym with my moisture wickening under armour shirt DRENCHED and I could give a flying f*** kuz I know I worked my *kitten* off. if you are out of shape, sure you will sweat a lot more and it won't take much, but SWEAT IS GOOD.
  • so_long_blubber
    so_long_blubber Posts: 16 Member
    Yip I sweat real bad!! I wear a tennis sweat band to stop it running down my face......yummy!! If I don't I get embarrassed and want to give up. Silly though because I know that it means my body is working and I'm kicking my fat *kitten* into positive action. As everyone else says though as long as us sweaty bettys clean the machines down once we are finished then no one is bothered. It's a sign of a great workout :)
  • AlsDonkBoxSquat
    AlsDonkBoxSquat Posts: 6,128 Member
    My shirt, pants, socks, under things all are sweaty unless I have a fan blowing on me the whole time. I do, however, sometimes have a fan blowing on me throughout my workout when I'm teaching classes. I find I can push harder with a fan and bring more to my participants.
  • atadley
    atadley Posts: 18 Member
    I love the sweat! My uncle always says to soak a shirt each day! Keep it up!
  • ellie78
    ellie78 Posts: 375
    I sweat like crazy at the gym! That's part of the reasons I would rather run outside actually, the breeze helps keep me dry :smile:
  • pverbarg
    pverbarg Posts: 490 Member
    Even running outside in 20 degree temps.... If I'm not wringing sweat out of my bra at the end of a workout, I've not worked hard enough! :wink:
  • BoxingCoachMo
    BoxingCoachMo Posts: 420
    For some reason i don't drip with sweat... and it boggles my mind as well as others.. i work as hard if not harder than most people in my classes yet don't drip, i never have and never will... must be genetic.
  • ahealthy4u
    ahealthy4u Posts: 442 Member
    This is just out of curiosity, I recently started going back to the gym and I noticed that I really sweat a lot and no one else seems to be at all. As soon as I get warmed up I start sweating and my face turns bright red, lol. Everyone else looks normal, and I am getting really self concious about it. Has anyone else ever noticed this? I was at the gym for an hour, when I left my shirt was soaked, how does everyone else look so cool even the people really running on the treadmill? Just wondering, hope I'm not alone in this!! LOL
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    If you are looking good/pretty when leaving the GYM you truly haven't worked out in my book. :wink:
  • BeautyFromPain
    BeautyFromPain Posts: 4,952 Member
    Sweat is hot if you ask me ;)

    Nah, but in all seriousness dw about it. Some ppl do, some don't.
  • Kristiehaines
    Kristiehaines Posts: 11 Member
    I sweat profusely at the gym, turn red, and leave in need of a shower...but, I LOVE that feeling! I guess I haven't noticed others watching me because they're usually tied up in their own routines, so I don't fret too much about it. I just make sure to give all the machines a good wipe down once I'm finished. I wouldn't worry about it...happy sweating!
  • hbrittingham
    hbrittingham Posts: 2,518 Member
    I sweat like crazy at the gym. I am the sweatiest woman there by the time I leave, I swear. LOL. It just takes me a lot longer to start sweating now that I am in good shape, but once I do, I am soaked. It used to be 2-3 minutes in I'd start, now it takes me 10-15 minutes to start sweating.
  • WandaVonDunajew
    WandaVonDunajew Posts: 183 Member
    I sweat a lot too, and I hate it that no matter what type of exercise (even when I was at my fittest- and that meant 100 minutes of cardio plus some strength and then a 4k run with ease), I get REALLY red faced :blushing: . Everybody makes fun of me :embarassed: I dont mind though, its my body, and while I can change the way i look I cant change my color... and I dont want to!:huh:
  • mhotch
    mhotch Posts: 901 Member
    When I am done, I look like I went bobbing for apples. My husband barely gets a drop on his forehead. Some people sweat, some don't.
  • live4turns
    live4turns Posts: 314 Member
    This is just out of curiosity, I recently started going back to the gym and I noticed that I really sweat a lot and no one else seems to be at all. As soon as I get warmed up I start sweating and my face turns bright red, lol. Everyone else looks normal, and I am getting really self concious about it. Has anyone else ever noticed this? I was at the gym for an hour, when I left my shirt was soaked, how does everyone else look so cool even the people really running on the treadmill? Just wondering, hope I'm not alone in this!! LOL

    Also, I never thought "oh my, look at that guy, she's sweating like a f****ing maniac!"...its more like, damn she's working out like crazy, what workout is she doing (usually some kind of HIIT)

    But I do have more of these thoughts, "oh jeez, why the hell is she wearing so much of that perfume at the gym" and its usually the person that is not sweating, not working out, and is at the gym trying to look pretty.
  • Cueball55
    Cueball55 Posts: 152 Member
    I used to feel the same as you... self conscious about my sweat (because I ususally sweat a lot too)

    I'd have my headphones plugged in, just giving 'er, and sweating up a storm!! But I'd always clean the equipment, and the floor where I drip because I was just aware of my sweat.

    Then one day, one of the trainers there stopped me, and we basically said that she was super impressed that every time I went there, I was focused and intense... not that i sweat a lot, but that I worked out hard. So that felt good, and I just kept doing what I was doing.

    And thru time, I've had people come up to me or just comment to me that I was the hardest working guy there everytime I went, etc..

    So just keep doing what you're doing! You're supposed to sweat at a gym!
  • live4turns
    live4turns Posts: 314 Member
    I used to feel the same as you... self conscious about my sweat (because I ususally sweat a lot too)

    I'd have my headphones plugged in, just giving 'er, and sweating up a storm!! But I'd always clean the equipment, and the floor where I drip because I was just aware of my sweat.

    Then one day, one of the trainers there stopped me, and we basically said that she was super impressed that every time I went there, I was focused and intense... not that i sweat a lot, but that I worked out hard. So that felt good, and I just kept doing what I was doing.

    And thru time, I've had people come up to me or just comment to me that I was the hardest working guy there everytime I went, etc..

    So just keep doing what you're doing! You're supposed to sweat at a gym!

    very true. i've made these sort of comments before and it's usually to ask them what they are doing and if they say "a circuit" they usually follow up with "wanna work in?" and then the result is 2 sweaty *kitten* mofos
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    When I am done, I look like I went bobbing for apples. My husband barely gets a drop on his forehead. Some people sweat, some don't.

    Yep. That's us, too. I'm drenched in shorts and a dry-weave shirt, and he's wearing a hoodie and not even flushed.
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
    I didn't used to sweat when I started exercising, I just went purple in the face! I think it's a learned response, as these days I come off the treadmill literally dripping.

    As the t-shirt says, "This isn't sweat, it's liquid awesome!"
  • engineman312
    engineman312 Posts: 3,450 Member
    its a badge of honor for me.
  • grapenutSF
    grapenutSF Posts: 648 Member
    Yes. Sweat at the gym. That's what it's there for.
  • YouAreTheShit
    YouAreTheShit Posts: 510 Member
    A little tidbit about sweat:

    http://www.coachmeyer.com/factsaboutsweat.html
  • KimertRuns13_1
    KimertRuns13_1 Posts: 702 Member
    No sweat at the gym is wasted money.
    This. If my shirt isn't soaked and my hair dripping when I leave then I didn't work hard enough.
  • KCalmeyn
    KCalmeyn Posts: 36 Member
    I barely sweat at the gym. My underarms and he hair at the back of my neck get damp, meanwhile my husband can drench a shirt.
  • theoneandonlybrookie
    theoneandonlybrookie Posts: 341 Member
    I actually wish I could sweat more. I get red in the face, and produce these lovely exertion blotches all over (I get them during sex too. Ha - lucky me! :happy: ) and I do sweat some, but never get drenching wet. Ever. Even during spin class when I'm tipping into my zone 5 frequently, the most I have is a wet spot on my chest and of course forehead / hair sweat.

    It's really good for you to sweat profusely. I'm jealous!
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