“Let’s go to the gym and work up a sweat”. So, does this mean
that if you don’t get “sweaty Betty”, you may as well not have
bothered going? Definitely not! You can still burn energy/fat
and not perspire! Perspiring is your body’s way of cooling
itself, similar to the fan on a car cutting in. If this didn’t
happen, you’d overheat and collapse (just like the cars you see
at the side of the road steaming). Cool temperatures keep
perspiration down but your heart can be beating just as high as
if you were out in the tropics! Who sweats more – the ‘fit’ or
the ‘unfit’? We’ll use the word “perspire” as it sounds much
better than “sweat” but in essence, it’s the same. Depending on
age, fitness level, gender and the environment, perspiration is
different from person to person. You therefore cannot compare
and say he/she is not fit because they sweat a lot or don’t
sweat at all. We all sweat at our own rate. That said, the
fitter you get, the quicker and more you will sweat from your
own base level. The body does not