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Title: Do you sweat a lot?
Post by: BayGBM on September 26, 2006, 06:40:24 AM
In the last year I’ve upped my work outs and food intake and gained about 8 pounds.  I’ve also begun to sweat a lot.   My car a/c works great, but I keep a small wash cloth in my car because I occasionally need to mop up sweat--especially when I first get the car before it has a chance to cool down. 

As recently as a couple years ago I’d notice sweat stains on huge bodybuilders just underneath their pecs and I used to think that was a strange place to perspire, but I’m sweating there now too!

I have never been one of those people who sweat a lot but I seem to be turning into one.  Why is this happening?  Can just a few more lbs make you sweat that much more?  ???
Title: Re: Do you sweat a lot?
Post by: JPM on September 26, 2006, 08:41:35 AM
Excess sweating means guilt. Can we rule that out?

Gaining extra muscular bwt, as opposed to fat, should not be the cause of the sweats. Changing meds or supplements (including herbs.. either a good or  bad affect on the body) or a bad combination of both could have a bearing on the problrm. As we get older the body respones in a different way to those factors. Might be worth you while to get a blood test just to determine if it's something to be overly concerned about or not.  May be only a non serious gland problem. The immune system/thyroid comes to mind also but that would only be in extreme cases. Healthy sweating is excouraged to balance the body. The sweats might just be a simple chemical imbalance in the body. Good Luck.

Title: Re: Do you sweat a lot?
Post by: Deadpool on September 26, 2006, 09:33:58 AM
I sure do sweat at the gym, that is for sure.  I wear two t shirts since one won't soak up all the sweat
Title: Re: Do you sweat a lot?
Post by: Jr. Yates on September 26, 2006, 10:38:09 AM
I'll sweat but not profusely. usually wear an undershirt and a t-shirt overtop. If a good sweat gets going it will just be around the collar and in the center of my back. cardio is another story though.
Title: Re: Do you sweat a lot?
Post by: figgs on September 26, 2006, 11:14:56 AM
I sweat in warm weather. In hot weather I'm soaked. I always thought I just don't respond well to the heat.

Hey, at least I'm physiologically prepared for the next ice age!  ;D
Title: Re: Do you sweat a lot?
Post by: Jr. Yates on September 26, 2006, 11:22:44 AM

Hey, at least I'm physiologically prepared for the next ice age!  ;D
that is very true.  ;)
Title: Re: Do you sweat a lot?
Post by: stealth_swimmer on September 26, 2006, 12:08:28 PM
Yes. I've always had the problem of excess perspiration though.
Title: Re: Do you sweat a lot?
Post by: WOOO on September 26, 2006, 05:15:46 PM
i sweat a ton... but it's nothing that a 10 minute ice cold shower won't stop
Title: Re: Do you sweat a lot?
Post by: smaul on September 27, 2006, 12:10:22 AM
As you get fitter and healthier your body gets better at losing excess heat through sweating.
Title: Re: Do you sweat a lot?
Post by: dontknowit on September 27, 2006, 03:08:08 AM
As you get fitter and healthier your body gets better at losing excess heat through sweating.

Not quite,
excessive heat has got multiple reasons.

Eating much, processing food generates heat.
Cardio not up to date,
better cardio(vascular system), bigger hart, less beats a second, less heat.

Check-out your supplements.
Do you use fat-burners, caffeine-supps, energydrinks etc. Maybe a mix in certain supps.
Title: Re: Do you sweat a lot?
Post by: Deadpool on September 29, 2006, 07:38:55 AM
I actually like the sweat in the gym, makes me think I went all out
Title: Re: Do you sweat a lot?
Post by: sustabob on October 03, 2006, 05:03:40 AM
I hardly sweat much at all.

No matter what I do or what the weather conditions, I sweat far, far less than the average.

Never could figure out why...
Title: Re: Do you sweat a lot?
Post by: WOOO on October 03, 2006, 11:47:18 AM
I hardly sweat much at all.

No matter what I do or what the weather conditions, I sweat far, far less than the average.

Never could figure out why...

dehydrated?
Title: Re: Do you sweat a lot?
Post by: sustabob on October 04, 2006, 03:34:17 AM
dehydrated?

Nah... Drink loads. And it's never seemed to impair my performance.

Guess I'm just a real cool guy  8)
Title: Re: Do you sweat a lot?
Post by: LASTREP72 on October 05, 2006, 05:58:51 AM
I was spotting a guy on bench and some of my sweat dripped onto his face, boy that really fucked up his last few reps  - and he was working with about 340.
Title: Re: Do you sweat a lot?
Post by: WOOO on October 06, 2006, 05:33:59 PM
Nah... Drink loads. And it's never seemed to impair my performance.

Guess I'm just a real cool guy  8)

word... 8)
Title: Re: Do you sweat a lot?
Post by: oldtimer1 on October 06, 2006, 06:47:37 PM
I have no explanation for this but this is what happens to me.  When I'm in great shape I hardly sweat at all.  I can go for a 5 mile run and my shirt is damp in some places.  When I'm heavier and lifting heavy when I run my shirt turns into a 4 pound wet rag.  I think if you have an insulating layer of subcutaneous fat your body will heat up quickly and you will sweat like a pig.
Title: Re: Do you sweat a lot?
Post by: Jr. Franco on October 12, 2006, 05:07:09 PM
Hey i've been fat to skinny to fat to a pretty msucular size right now and let me tell you this I sweat like a fucking pig through all those sizes, if bodys designed to sweat lots ur gunan sweat lot's, I dont fucken care make u look like your workin extra hard at the gym right  8).
Title: Re: Do you sweat a lot?
Post by: Jr. Yates on October 12, 2006, 05:09:37 PM
Hey i've been fat to skinny to fat to a pretty msucular size right now and let me tell you this I sweat like a fucking pig through all those sizes, if bodys designed to sweat lots ur gunan sweat lot's, I dont fucken care make u look like your workin extra hard at the gym right  8).
i can vouge for that! getting spotted by you is scary haha  ;) kidding Jr. Franks
Title: Re: Do you sweat a lot?
Post by: Jr. Franco on October 12, 2006, 08:25:37 PM
Hey hey hey lol be nice yates, be nice.
Title: Re: Do you sweat a lot?
Post by: Farkenell on October 15, 2006, 11:36:37 AM
I was spotting a guy on bench and some of my sweat dripped onto his face, boy that really fucked up his last few reps  - and he was working with about 340.

Ive done that.. my mate and I just start laughing.

I was benching dumbbells  and I was exhaling and blew spit in my spotter mouth and face.. haha.. shit I felt bad. Poor guy.