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| Sweat | Sweating | Excessive sweating Hyperhidrosis | Lose weight by sweating |
Whenever summer approaches, hoping to show a beautiful slender body on the beach, I see the most unthinkable and absurd things in the gyms to lose all the fat accumulated during the year.
For this reason I see people running on treadmills in the month of July with a sweater on or with plastic overalls, not to mention those neoprene bands for the well-publicized abdomen.
According to the theses of some "experts" (more in marketing than in fitness) sweating more helps to lose weight. It is as if we were saying that at the same intensity, half an hour of running in the summer is more slimming than the same half-hour made in winter, absurd!
If we asked ourselves the question of why we sweat when it is hot or when we train we would notice that the fat is not in the least consulted.
To be efficient our body must always and in all circumstances maintain a homeostasis (balance). In the case of exercise, our thermal equilibrium is "lost" due to the increased body temperature, which normally remains between 36 and 37 degrees Celsius.
To avoid damage, excess heat is dissipated and sweat is one of the means available to our body.
So when the temperature increases due to environmental circumstances or due to exercise, sweat, rich in water, evaporates, cooling the skin and the entire body.
There is also to say that if there is no evaporation there is no cooling, so besides being useless it is also dangerous to wrap in who knows what material, as the latter prevents the sweat from evaporating with the risk of overheating.
Another question to ask is: what is sweat composed of?
It is mainly composed of water, sodium, chlorine, potassium, magnesium with modest amounts of copper, iron, vitamins, hormones, urea, creatinine, amino acids, lactic acid, glucose.
As can be seen in the sweat, no form of fat is present.
So "the question arises spontaneously": how can sweat make you lose fat if it does not contain it itself, nor does it trigger any chemical reaction that interests it?
Hoping to have clearly expressed the ineffectiveness of this method, so to have persuaded you to eliminate it from your daily training, I invite you to take better care of your health that, due to these "mezzucoli" proposed by marketing experts, could have some unpleasant consequences.
