When a workout promises to make you sweat like you never did before, you automatically assume it must be effective for weight loss and overall health. But how true is this? Does sweating a lot really prove that the workout is effective? Turns out, not exactly.
According to Lindsay Baker, Ph.D., “the two are not necessarily correlated although it can be.” She explained to Popsugar that sweating more isn’t an indicator of an optimal workout, but “the intensity that you’re working out is definitely an important factor that determines how much you sweat, but it’s not the only factor.”
That being said, you can’t always know how much you’re sweating. Depending on your workout clothes, sometimes you’ll notice more sweat on your skin while other times your clothes will absorb most of it. In dry and hot areas, sweat may evaporate quicker, leaving you to think that you didn’t really sweat a lot.
There are many different reasons why some people sweat more than others. Sweating is a process that regulates your body temperature. This means that you sweat more when you’re hot, even if you’re not particularly active. If you’re working out when it’s colder, you probably won’t sweat much, but this doesn’t mean that the workout was ineffective.
