If You Dont Sweat During Exercise, Is It A Waste Of Time?
You always hear the old adage, lets go exercise and work up a good sweat like sweating is a sign that youve had a good, productive workout. But what if you exercise and you dont really sweat during the workout? Was that workout a lost cause? Does it mean you just didnt exercise long or hard enough for it to be a productive workout?
Well lets examine the facts here and dispel the ever popular myth about just why you sweat and its relation to exercise.
Your body is like an engine that never stops running and like all engines, it produces heat. The more your muscles contract, the more heat is produced. If the body didnt have ways of keeping you cool, you would overheat and collapse within 20 minutes.
The first method is radiation where heat radiates out of the skin if the air around you is cooler than your body. The second method is conduction which is the transfer of heat by direct contact such as swimming in a pool of cold water where the water absorbs your body heat. The third method is convection where moving air cools us down like when you stand in front of a fan or when the wind blows. The...