I'm sorry to say but I don't think so. Unless your heart rate somehow increases dramatically at the same time, it's just your body cooling itself down. Did you know that you can get botox injections for excessive sweating, also known as hyperhidrosis?

Don't think it means you're burning extra calories.. but you would be flushing out toxins from your system which is always good, as long as you're replacing lost fluids with water/tea/juice/whatever.

Hi, i dont know about the calories, but i have a similiar problem with excessive sweating, how do u cope with it? i'm a female in my 20s and supposedly there's nothing wrong with me!but it really bothers me!

Yeah me too! It is not easy to deal with. I have had so many doctors tell me there is nothing wrong. For underarms, I have a prescription deoderant but the rest of my body is a mess!! I sweat a lot during my sleep too. I guess since there's nothing wrong, I just have to sweat it out (that was a joke)!

I think calorie burning is more based on elevated heart rate levels....not sweat amounts.

~H~

Yeah I'd have to agree with haley.. from research I've done most sources say that you burn most fat after elevating your heart rate for 20 minutes or more. I think it was meant to be between 55% and 85% of your.. something.. heart rate, which you work out by subtracting your age from 220.

So for example, for me to burn fat effectively I need to raise my heart rate to between 55% and 85% of 198 (220 minus my age 22 = 198). So I would get my heart rate up to between 110 bpm and 168bpm. After 20 minutes, and up to 60 minutes, is determined to be the optimal fat burning period.

Hope that makes sense =]

i love your attitude about the whole thing :) i sometimes get extremely frustrated about it, but will try to take it more lightly from now on. :) i guess being self-conscious about it makes it all worse.

I am also an excessive sweater, condition known as hyperhydrosis. As i'm typing right now, my hands, feet, and armpits are sweaty...but i'm cold. My 8 y.o daughter has the same condition. I took her to the Dr. about 2 years ago regarding this and explained to the Dr. that I have the same problems. He prescribe her Drysol (which I use as well). Drysol is a deoderant that contains aluminum chloride which drys up the sweat glands. Let me tell you....it's UNBELIEVABLE!

The directions state to put it on before bed at the site of the sweatiness....then cover in a plastic bag. Well....you don't have to do that. I use it on my armpits about every 3-4 days before I go to bed. It does stain your clothing though...so if you wear clothes to bed...keep an old t-shirt for these times.

It's amazing how I can go weeks without the sweat marks in the pits of my shirts. I LOVE IT!

Well, your body does use energy creating the sweat, but I don't think it's a significant amount of calorie burn - it probably is just a part of your normal BMR for your size.

Original Post by moscovite82:

I had a similar question (not exactly the same) so I'll post it here:

Normally I run on the treadmill at 6.5. By the end of my workout, I'm practically dripping with sweat, and my hair feels like I just got out of the shower.

When I go on the elliptical for the same amount of time, it feels like I am working just as hard as I do on the treadmill, and it shows that I've burned a comparable number of calories. But for some reason, my hair stays mostly dry, and I don't sweat nearly as much. I was wondering if this meant that I was in fact burning fewer calories. I know that the treadmill doesn't burn the exact same number of calories as the elliptical, but usually the number displayed is pretty close.

Can someone please answer this? Or I'll have to start a new thread which I really don't want to do!

 sweat is a fair comparative factor when determining cardio calorie burn.  if, under the same environmental conditions, you sweat more doing one activity than another, you're definitely burning more calories doing the activity that makes you sweat more.  so somehow, you're burning more calories on the treadmill.  that works well for indoor cardio, but not as well for outdoor cardio bec of all the environmental variables.

I only wish it were true!!  I wouldn't have to work out at all as much as I suffer from Night Sweats!!!  LOL  Perimenopause is such a joy