Sweating, Exercise Routines and Burning Fat
Some may think that a strenuous workout that produces lots of perspiration really works off the calories and burns lots of fat. And, that is true.
Many people connect the burning of fat calories through exercise with the sweat produced by the exercise. After all, everyone says that the more energetically you exercise and the greater the duration of your workouts, the more fat you will burn. And, if you go to the gym you see all kinds of people perspiring to the full.
Consequently, anyone will imagine it is obvious to connect sweat with workouts and the reduction of fat.
However, the difficulty comes about when people try to find a shortcut. They think that any activity that causes them to perspire will burn fat. They often conclude that they can easily perform something that causes them to sweat without all that exercise. For example, I was in the sauna one day with another person. who actually does exercise a lot, and he said that he really liked the sauna since it made him perspire and really helped burn off more fat.
But, this view is unsound. It just doesn't wok that way. Here's the reason.
When you exercise your muscles need energy to contract. They get this energy from carbohydrates, fats, and sometimes even proteins. One aspect of energy production is the Krebs cycle. The basic purpose of the Krebs cycle is to generate a compound usually called ATP which supplies energy to the cells. ATP production demands the oxidation or burning of carbohydrates, fats, or proteins. This total procedure generates heat
You may notice that for a number of minutes after you finish your exercising you keep on sweating. You keep sweating because the Krebs cycle is continuing to reload your energy supplies after being partly depleted by your working out. The heat produced by this process causes you to continue to sweat for a few minutes until your energy supplies return to normal.
The heat this process generates all through and directly after your exercise routines must be removed from your body to sustain your natural temperature. Sweat helps the body sustain a stable temperature. So, you sweat because your body is burning carbohydrates, fats, or proteins to create energy for your exercise and for recovery.
Like my friend, many people simply want to get directly to the sweating without doing the workouts. Therefore, they take a sauna (even without working out), put on extra thermal clothing while involved in mild calisthenics, or even wrap themselves in a garbage bag, all just to generate extra perspiration.
However, what is going on is they are adding heat to their body in a sauna or keeping heat from leaving the body with thermal clothing. So they perspire. However, the perspiration is not caused by the production of energy which burns fat. They perspire because their environment is hot. Not only that, but, with all that sweating, they have simply lost the weight of water (as perspiration) that has evaporated from their skin, but the fat is still there.
To burn lots of fat, your muscles need to use lots of energy and fats must be converted to replacement energy. There truly is no shortcut to burning fat. Fat burning demands exercise. Energetic exercise.
Many people connect the burning of fat calories through exercise with the sweat produced by the exercise. After all, everyone says that the more energetically you exercise and the greater the duration of your workouts, the more fat you will burn. And, if you go to the gym you see all kinds of people perspiring to the full.
Consequently, anyone will imagine it is obvious to connect sweat with workouts and the reduction of fat.
However, the difficulty comes about when people try to find a shortcut. They think that any activity that causes them to perspire will burn fat. They often conclude that they can easily perform something that causes them to sweat without all that exercise. For example, I was in the sauna one day with another person. who actually does exercise a lot, and he said that he really liked the sauna since it made him perspire and really helped burn off more fat.
But, this view is unsound. It just doesn't wok that way. Here's the reason.
When you exercise your muscles need energy to contract. They get this energy from carbohydrates, fats, and sometimes even proteins. One aspect of energy production is the Krebs cycle. The basic purpose of the Krebs cycle is to generate a compound usually called ATP which supplies energy to the cells. ATP production demands the oxidation or burning of carbohydrates, fats, or proteins. This total procedure generates heat
You may notice that for a number of minutes after you finish your exercising you keep on sweating. You keep sweating because the Krebs cycle is continuing to reload your energy supplies after being partly depleted by your working out. The heat produced by this process causes you to continue to sweat for a few minutes until your energy supplies return to normal.
The heat this process generates all through and directly after your exercise routines must be removed from your body to sustain your natural temperature. Sweat helps the body sustain a stable temperature. So, you sweat because your body is burning carbohydrates, fats, or proteins to create energy for your exercise and for recovery.
Like my friend, many people simply want to get directly to the sweating without doing the workouts. Therefore, they take a sauna (even without working out), put on extra thermal clothing while involved in mild calisthenics, or even wrap themselves in a garbage bag, all just to generate extra perspiration.
However, what is going on is they are adding heat to their body in a sauna or keeping heat from leaving the body with thermal clothing. So they perspire. However, the perspiration is not caused by the production of energy which burns fat. They perspire because their environment is hot. Not only that, but, with all that sweating, they have simply lost the weight of water (as perspiration) that has evaporated from their skin, but the fat is still there.
To burn lots of fat, your muscles need to use lots of energy and fats must be converted to replacement energy. There truly is no shortcut to burning fat. Fat burning demands exercise. Energetic exercise.
