<h2>Sweat means nothing.</h2>
Well, it doesn't mean NOTHING, but we seem to think it has a much larger role than it really does. For SOME reason we think sweat is a clear indicator of fat burn. It's time we had a talk about sweat, fat burn, and how it all REALLY works.

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<h2>Have you had a good "sweat session" lately?</h2>
Let's get right to the point here - there's this idea out there that the more you sweat, the more fat you burn. People are FIERCELY defensive of this idea - that sweat is somehow an indicator of the efficacy of a workout.
<h3>This idea is dead wrong.</h3>
Let me ask you a question - if sweat is directly correlated to fat burn... why is there such an obesity issue in this country? Wouldn't we all burn off fat and lose a bunch of weight in the heat of summer?  What about when the A/C in your car is broken - do you burn a pound driving to work? OH - you meant just in the context of a workout.
<h3><strong>That's dead wrong, too.</strong></h3>
If sweat isn't an indicator of fat burn when you're sitting on your couch, why would that change in the context of a workout? The mechanisms in your body that burn fat don't burn fat differently because you're working out rather than sitting. As a matter of fact... it occurred to me...
<h3><strong>Do people understand how sweat works?</strong></h3>
With this idea that sweat is an indicator of fat burn, it seems to me to be the case that there's a fundamental misunderstanding about how sweat works, and what it's really for. The short version here is - it's the body's mechanism for cooling itself when our body temp is over 98.6 degrees. It's really quite simple - sweat glands allow sweat to pass through the pores of the skin to the surface, where it then evaporates - thus cooling our body. We don't burn calories during this process. That's the basic, simple fact we need to know here. Beyond that... well... we take a deep dive into THAT on episode 79 of the So THIS Is Fitness podcast, which you can find below.

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