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"Breaking a sweat" indicates that your body has largely converted to oxidative metabolism (somewhat complex physiologic and biochemical reasons for this). Oxidative metabolism is the state where you are burning calories at a much higher rate then otherwise. This, of course, occurs in skeletal muscle primarily.
For this reason, you should only count the time of a workout from the time AFTER you break a sweat. This time varies according to what you are doing, what your body will tolerate before it finally gets to that point, and of course, the fact that some people sweat easily, others not.
While treadmilling to lose weight (3.5 +/- mph with progressively increased incline over weeks) it took me about 15 minutes to break a sweat at first; after a few weeks this decreased to about 5 minutes - probably because with regularity at working out, you induce cell enzymatic processes to kick in faster and more efficiently.
Very important stuff for those out to burn some calories or just get in shape.
"Breaking a sweat" indicates that your body has largely converted to oxidative metabolism (somewhat complex physiologic and biochemical reasons for this). Oxidative metabolism is the state where you are burning calories at a much higher rate then otherwise. This, of course, occurs in skeletal muscle primarily.
For this reason, you should only count the time of a workout from the time AFTER you break a sweat. This time varies according to what you are doing, what your body will tolerate before it finally gets to that point, and of course, the fact that some people sweat easily, others not.
While treadmilling to lose weight (3.5 +/- mph with progressively increased incline over weeks) it took me about 15 minutes to break a sweat at first; after a few weeks this decreased to about 5 minutes - probably because with regularity at working out, you induce cell enzymatic processes to kick in faster and more efficiently.
Very important stuff for those out to burn some calories or just get in shape.
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"Breaking a sweat" indicates that your body has largely converted to oxidative metabolism (somewhat complex physiologic and biochemical reasons for this). Oxidative metabolism is the state where you are burning calories at a much higher rate then otherwise. This, of course, occurs in skeletal muscle primarily.
For this reason, you should only count the time of a workout from the time AFTER you break a sweat. This time varies according to what you are doing, what your body will tolerate before it finally gets to that point, and of course, the fact that some people sweat easily, others not.
While treadmilling to lose weight (3.5 +/- mph with progressively increased incline over weeks) it took me about 15 minutes to break a sweat at first; after a few weeks this decreased to about 5 minutes - probably because with regularity at working out, you induce cell enzymatic processes to kick in faster and more efficiently.
Very important stuff for those out to burn some calories or just get in shape.
However, depending on the temperature and humidity you may perspire for a long time without actually "breaking a sweat" (if you do at all) so this is still not a reliable guage unless one has instruments to measure real perspiration.
so if you don't touch the arm things, they just stay in place? the bikes in my gym don't have those but some ellipticals do and they just move back and forth automatically. I find them super annoying.
They do move automatically (and does on my elliptical machine I have in my home gym, too - Octane), but if you grab them and actually start using them to try to move, it engages your core like you won't believe. They are not "automatically moving" in the sense that your arms just fly around. You need to try it on a good machine at a decent resistance setting. It makes it much harder.
When I exercise I don't sweat that much. Like today I didn't sweat hardly at all but put in a good 10 minutes on the bicycle in the gym. Does how much you sweat mean anything.
It tells you how much heat you are generating. Sweating is how the body cools itself off.
Not really. Shoveling 8" of snow in 13 F and overcast with wind did not make me sweat, but sure stressed out my Arm muscles and made me feel tired and exhausted. I don't sweat at all unless its above 75 F while working out. Often, I warm up before starting workout to break a sweat.
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