Don't be fooled, sweating is not a sign of weight loss or intensity of training!

While some use the summer solely for rest, others love the summer because of increased sweating. Many people think that sweating is an indicator of how good the training was, but also a confirmation of the effectiveness of the activity. When someone says "I didn't sweat", it's criticism of the coach and the training.

However, whether increased sweating is an indicator of better training and whether sweating has anything to do with losing weight and melting fat, see below in this article.

Sweating as a cooling organism

Sweat-producing glands can be eccrine and apocrine. When your body temperature rises, the glands begin to sweat out, and this evaporation of moisture from your skin helps you cool down. In addition, sweating can also occur for other reasons, such as stress or fear. Such sweat comes from the apocrine glands, which are found mainly in the armpits and groin.

The amount of sweat we excrete during training depends on several factors, including gender (men tend to sweat more than women) and age (younger people sweat more than older people), but also genetics, temperature and humidity. Apart from the above, sweating is also influenced by body weight: people with more weight sweat more because their body generates more heat, so sweat is a way of cooling.


Another factor affecting your sweating rate is fitness. It is surprising to find that those who are in better fitness begin to sweat in training sooner than those who are less fit. Studies show that as your fitness levels rise, your body's temperature control system becomes more efficient, cools you down faster, and allows you to do higher-level workouts.

Sweating and losing water

Do not be fooled if you stand on the scale after a very intense workout and see that you have a slightly lower weight. You didn't lose weight as easily as you hoped, you just threw out the water and returned it as soon as you rehydrated. In addition, that sign on the scale does not even mean that you have consumed a lot of calories in training, but simply that you have sweated a lot.


At the same time, if you are not sweating too much, do not think that you have not done a good workout or that you have not consumed enough calories. After all, there are people who simply sweat minimally, and that has nothing to do with losing weight or consuming calories in training, or the intensity of training.

Sweating and clothing

Furthermore, the materials of which you wear training clothes also affect your sweating sensation. While synthetic materials such as polyester and lycra are such that they move sweat from the skin to the surface of the fabric to evaporate as soon as possible, the cotton absorbs the sweat but does not evaporate it, so you will feel wet and sweaty in cotton clothes. But keep in mind that polyester clothing can very easily smell awkward after it comes in contact with sweat, which can be very uncomfortable in a workout area with other people.

Therefore, when you do training, some will sweat more, some less, and some almost will not. Do not associate sweating with the intensity of training or with any of its other parameters or results, but simply with what sweating is - the body's reaction to fever and the process by which the body cools itself.


For weight loss, however, you will need to pay a little more attention to the amount of food you ingest rather than how much you sweat.