when you sweat are you losing fat and if not what?

Question

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Okay what is the cheapest and fastest exercise to burn fat.

Answer 1

When you sweat you are losing water weight, which in turn will shed weight from you body, but not fat. It is GREAT to sweat!! Sweat as much as you can, you will not only burn fat (doing cardio) but calories as well!

Answer 2

Sweat is mostly water, it usually contains salt and some metabolic waste products as well. The main purpose of sweat is to cool you down if you get hot, which might happen if you exercise but sweating does not in itself burn calories or lose fat.

Answer 3

Well what sweat is, is water, and sodium, you are not loosing any fat. the mechanism of sweating is to cool off, that is your bodies way of cooling off the internal environment. Basically it is your bodies own air conditioner. Because without this mechanism your body would overheat and you would have a heat stroke, and that is not too pleasant. Your brain has to be at a certain temperature, so it has certain ways to regulate it. When you sweat the water cools off by evaporation. But if you want to last long doing any exercise drink Gatorade, it replenishes your salt and electrolyte concentration, then you wont fatigue as quick as if you would only drink water. Trust me on this one, I do this all the time.

Answer 4

You are not losing fat unless you are exercising while sweating. If you are sitting down and sweating then that just means that you are hot and that is your bodies way of cooling itself. Just like a dog panting. But if you are asking just because you want to lose weight through sweat, then, no you don't. It's just beneficial water and minerals that your body needs. You just need to get up and exercise.

Answer 5

You don't lose fat when you sweat. You are losing water, a little bit of sodium and some electrolytes. You can lose weight by sweating, but it's only water weight. You will gain it back the minute you drink water or any other liquid.

Answer 6

When you sweat you lose calories and a minute amount of fat.If you do regular work outs then you will lose considerable amount of fat and you should be on a recommended diet to have better reduction of fat.

Answer 7

No, sweat is the excretion of water and excess salts via the skin cells. Not fat.

Answer 8

when you sweat you are losing water and salts from you're body. You could be losing fat if you are sweating from burning fat.

Answer 9

No, you dont lose fat, its actually water that you are losing, thats also why you have to drink a lot in summer not to get dehydratated. You only lose fat when doing some physical excercice

Answer 10

Your body perspires to cool itself down. It is water that is being lost, not fat. Sweat consists of sodium chloride, waste products, h2o and electrolytes.