Sweating and fat loss myth

“Sweating more during a workout means burning more fat.”

Let's dispel the above myth. So, does fat loss equate to sweating? Do you have to sweat in order to have any impact on your fat loss? We have to start by defining the difference between weight loss and fat loss. It is the fat loss what we are really after. So, if you looking to get ripped for the summer and you want your abs to show, you have to get rid of as much body fat as you possibly can. Weight loss, however, can come very easily in the form of water, that’s going to be replaced very quickly by the time your workout is done, by rehydrating. 

So, before you think you can outsmart your body, your body knows what’s going on. It needs water. It needs to maintain blood volume. It’s going to stimulate your thirst to make you want to drink more water to replace the fluids. 

In order to be able to lose fat, you want to focus on caloric expenditure. Trying to create as much calorie expenditure as possible, so at the end of the day, you have a net caloric deficit that is going to allow you to drop some body fat. Don’t forget, you can also create a caloric deficit throughout your diet. Furthermore, you want to keep doing it consistently, day after day after day.

By choosing tough exercises you can make sure you’re going for your caloric deficit. The ones that make you work really hard. Then you may find that you sweat more. But, what is actually happening? Sweat is simply a reaction by your body to try and help maintain your core temperature. What it means is as you start to increase your core temperature over a certain limit, your body starts releasing some of the fluids on the surface of your skin, it evaporates, then you start to cool back down. That is all it's doing. It is not a requirement for fat loss. It is not integrated into the same process as fat loss.

Summarising, sweating is not related to your overall ability to burn fat.