Sweating, Exercise and Burning Fat - Health - Fitness

Some may think that a intense workout that produces lots of perspiration truly works off the calories and burns lots of fat. And, that's true.

Lots of people associate the burning of fat calories during exercise with the sweat produced from the workout. After all, everyone says that the more energetically you work out and the longer your exercise routines, the more fat you will burn. And, when you go to the fitness center you see all kinds of people perspiring to the full.

So, anyone would believe it's natural to connect sweat with exercise and the burning of fat.

However, the problem comes about when people look for a shortcut. They suppose that any activity that causes them to sweat will burn fat. They often assume that they can easily do an activity that makes them sweat without having to exercise. For example, I was in the sauna one day with another person. who actually does work out a lot, and he indicated that he really liked the sauna because it made him sweat and certainly helped burn off more fat.

But, this belief is faulty. It simply does not wok that way. Here's the reason.

While you exercise your muscles consume energy to work. They receive this energy from carbohydrates, fats, and sometimes even proteins. One part of energy production is the Krebs cycle. The basic reason for the Krebs cycle is to make a compound commonly called ATP which supplies energy to the cells. ATP fabrication demands the oxidation or burning of carbohydrates, fats, or proteins. This whole process produces heat

You may notice that for some minutes after you finish your exercises you continue to sweat. You continue perspiring because the Krebs cycle is continuing to top off your energy supplies after being partially used up by your working out. The heat produced by this process causes you to continue to perspire for a few minutes until your energy reserves return to normal.

The heat this process produces during and immediately after your exercise routines must be removed from your body to sustain your natural temperature. Perspiration helps the body sustain a steady temperature. So, you sweat because your body is burning carbohydrates, fats, or proteins to create energy for your workout and for recovery.

Like my friend, lots of people simply want to get straight to the sweating without doing the workouts. Accordingly, they get into the sauna (even without exercising), wear extra thermal clothing while doing mild exercise routines, or even wrap themselves in a garbage bag, all for the purpose of generating additional perspiration.

However, what is going on is they are adding heat to their body in a sauna or preventing heat from leaving the body with thermal clothing. And they perspire. But, the perspiration is not resulting from the production of energy which burns fat. They sweat because their surroundings are hot. And, with all that sweating, they have merely lost the weight of water (as perspiration) that has evaporated from their body, but the fat is still there.

To burn lots of fat, your muscles must use lots of energy and fats must be transformed into replacement energy. There truly is no shortcut to burning fat. Fat burning demands exercise. Vigorous exercise.

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