Sweat doesn't reduce your weight
Don’t be fool if you are sweating more. Sweat is more than just a little surplus moisture. It’s controlled by the hypothalamus, a tiny part of your brain. When you sweat, the fluid evaporates from the skin’s surface, carrying away excess body heat. In an indirect way, sweating from hard exercise helps you lose weight and by increasing your BMR. It’s not only one get sweat, during exercise, there are other Situations, which produces sweat, like Public Speaking, Getting divorced, Getting married, Interviewing for a job, going on a first date, and cooking in the kitchen etc.
The sweat itself comes from two types of glands. The apocrine sweat glands, which are the largest, are concentrated in the armpits and groin. The second type of sweat glands is the eccrine glands. These cover your entire body except the lips, the nipples and portions of genitals. This fluid is thinner than apocrine sweat and is mainly water, with small amounts of salt, potassium, urea and lactate. Its major role is to assist in thermoregulation – to prevent the body from overheating.
In extremely hot situations – for examples, running a marathon on a humid day- the body may not be able to dissipate the heat effectively. If you don’t give yourself a cool off period, this can lead to heat exhaustion or even heatstroke, which can put you in danger.
Don’t be fooled by fluids. Lot of people equates sweat with melted fat, but it’s not. When you sweat, you lose water weight. In other words although you might lose as much as 2 kilos during a workout , you will gain it all back as soon as you take a few drinks of water. Weighing yourself before and after exercise will tell you how much fluid you will need to take in.
If you’re keen to shed a few kilos, the best way to do it is Right diet, Smart Exercise, Positive thinking and adequate rest. Most people today are part of some fitness program either because they are battling with lifestyle diseases or obesity or there are some who want to shed those few extra kilos to get that “ lean muscular look” while some simply want to stay well and fit. To achieve this, we frequently hear around us “SWEAT MORE BURN MORE”.
The question is how we achieve this ideal picture of maximum fat loss, which will obviously result in burning calories and, of preserving lean muscle tissue which will result in strength gain and a toned body. The answer is effective exercise and a healthy diet. To understand effective exercises one needs to be acquainted with its two forms namely cardiovascular or aerobic and weight training or resistance training.
Hence to burn maximum fat and calories one must go for high intensity exercises while making cardio a part of one’s exercise program. There are numerous ways to hit the intensity for example going for an all out sprint which will leave you breathless after say 40 seconds, using higher weights with less repetitions not allowing one to go beyond 5 to 6 reps, or using moderate weight with maximum repetitions. Another effective way is to take less rest between sets. The more intensity you hit more fat you lose, but not “sweat”
Facts for sweat:
• When you sweat, you lose water weight.
• Sweating while exercise only can metabolize your fat, but it’s not when you are not exercising
• Sweating from hard exercise helps you lose weight by increasing your BMR.
• Wearing a plastic suit for exercise, for more sweat can put you at risk for heat exhaustion or heatstroke.
• Too much sweat, while exercising can put in dangerous conditions that can cause symptoms ranging from headache and dizziness to a weak, rapid heartbeat.
• Dangerous of getting too much sweat, can loss essential nutrition’s from the body.
• Sweat is body’s natural air-conditioner. The harder you train, the more you will sweat and also can detoxify your body.
Written by Neeraj Mehta (Nutrition and Fitness Professional and Director of GFFI Fitness Academy)
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The sweat itself comes from two types of glands. The apocrine sweat glands, which are the largest, are concentrated in the armpits and groin. The second type of sweat glands is the eccrine glands. These cover your entire body except the lips, the nipples and portions of genitals. This fluid is thinner than apocrine sweat and is mainly water, with small amounts of salt, potassium, urea and lactate. Its major role is to assist in thermoregulation – to prevent the body from overheating.
In extremely hot situations – for examples, running a marathon on a humid day- the body may not be able to dissipate the heat effectively. If you don’t give yourself a cool off period, this can lead to heat exhaustion or even heatstroke, which can put you in danger.
Don’t be fooled by fluids. Lot of people equates sweat with melted fat, but it’s not. When you sweat, you lose water weight. In other words although you might lose as much as 2 kilos during a workout , you will gain it all back as soon as you take a few drinks of water. Weighing yourself before and after exercise will tell you how much fluid you will need to take in.
If you’re keen to shed a few kilos, the best way to do it is Right diet, Smart Exercise, Positive thinking and adequate rest. Most people today are part of some fitness program either because they are battling with lifestyle diseases or obesity or there are some who want to shed those few extra kilos to get that “ lean muscular look” while some simply want to stay well and fit. To achieve this, we frequently hear around us “SWEAT MORE BURN MORE”.
The question is how we achieve this ideal picture of maximum fat loss, which will obviously result in burning calories and, of preserving lean muscle tissue which will result in strength gain and a toned body. The answer is effective exercise and a healthy diet. To understand effective exercises one needs to be acquainted with its two forms namely cardiovascular or aerobic and weight training or resistance training.
Hence to burn maximum fat and calories one must go for high intensity exercises while making cardio a part of one’s exercise program. There are numerous ways to hit the intensity for example going for an all out sprint which will leave you breathless after say 40 seconds, using higher weights with less repetitions not allowing one to go beyond 5 to 6 reps, or using moderate weight with maximum repetitions. Another effective way is to take less rest between sets. The more intensity you hit more fat you lose, but not “sweat”
Facts for sweat:
• When you sweat, you lose water weight.
• Sweating while exercise only can metabolize your fat, but it’s not when you are not exercising
• Sweating from hard exercise helps you lose weight by increasing your BMR.
• Wearing a plastic suit for exercise, for more sweat can put you at risk for heat exhaustion or heatstroke.
• Too much sweat, while exercising can put in dangerous conditions that can cause symptoms ranging from headache and dizziness to a weak, rapid heartbeat.
• Dangerous of getting too much sweat, can loss essential nutrition’s from the body.
• Sweat is body’s natural air-conditioner. The harder you train, the more you will sweat and also can detoxify your body.
Written by Neeraj Mehta (Nutrition and Fitness Professional and Director of GFFI Fitness Academy)
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