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Sweating
Calories
August
7, 2007
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Thirty-five hundred calories
- whether burned or
consumed -- equals one
pound.
Clinical Dietician
Jeanne Struve says that
we head to the gym or
the track and break a
sweat, but does how much
we sweat have anything
to do with how many
calories we’re really
burning?
“I think a lot of times
people think that
because they are
sweating they are
burning calories. So
they have been out and
maybe taken a walk and
maybe sweated more so
now than they did a few
months ago so they think
they have burned more
calories so they can eat
more and that is not the
case at all.
Jeanne also says that
sweating can vary
depending on how fit you
are. Believe it or not,
fitter people sweat
sooner and more than
unfit people. How
hydrated you are and the
outside temperature and
humidity also affect how
much you perspire. “That
is your body’s mechanism
for cooling. So when you
sweat your body needs to
be cool so it brings the
water out to cool.”
Wellness Center exercise
specialist Heather Sines
says that one important
factor if you want to
lose weight is to get
that muscle burn, not
necessarily to break a
sweat. Two ways to
really feel the burn are
aerobic exercise, or
cardio, and the other is
aerobic exercise – or
weight lifting. “If your
doing anaerobic it can
be strength training and
you’re going to burn
calories but it depends
if you’re big, if your
little it depends on
your body composition
because you can burn
calories either way.”
So remember, if you want
to really lose weight
you want to lose body
fat, not muscle or water
weight.
Keeping hydrated while
working out is important
but if you jump on that
scale too soon after
your workout you might
see the extra water
weight register on the
dial.
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