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Sweat is not a bad thing. It means your heart is pumping; what you want for weight loss.
That being said, I love exercising in cold weather, if you’re somewhere where you get any. Warm up a little inside, go out, and it just feels fantastic.
And that doesn’t just mean running a marathon. It can be calisthenics in a back yard, or garage, or even just walking out to a spot where you can jog.
While I’m here, let me glaze bodyweight exercises, like push ups, squats, kicks, core stuff, and all the variants. Do them in sets, one “group” a day.
It’s amazingly efficient. It gets you out of breath like running, but gets muscles sore like a weight machine, all in less time. And it’s waaay less stressful on your body than running or big weights.
Sweat means your body is trying to cool down, not that your heart is pumping.
Come on, you know what I mean. It’s an indicator exerting yourself. Your blood vessels dilate when you’re hot to try and dump the heat, just like they constrict in parts when cold to save it.
When you say do sets and groups, do you mean to do each of the exercises one time a day or only one part of the body rotating each day?
Also should I still pair this with the running? How much could I reduce my running if I started doing these? I'm currently doing an hour. I start seriously sweating after like 15 mins maybe and by around 40 mins I'm usually out of towels.
Also perhaps this is a silly question: But do you know a good set of workouts that I could do while watching anime? That's what I do while running to keep my brain occupied and part of the reason I stopped going to the gym a while ago was because I couldn't really do more than listen to podcasts, which isn't really enough of a distraction. In other words, exercises I could do while facing towards a stationary screen like a tablet or maybe I could do some in front of the TV.
The above poster may have a good idea... but I don't think they have a lot of good knowledge of making body comp changes.
I know what reps, sets, supersets, circuits, and training sessions are. I've never heard of a "group" of movements, other than maybe as an informal term, which is how the above poster seems to be using it.
Their enthusiasm for calisthenics is admirable. But they aren't any better or worse for you than any other form of exercise - whatever exercise doesn't hurt, and that you enjoy doing, is good exercise.
You can 100% pair calisthenics with running, and it can be a wonderful combo for general fitness. However, I doubt it would really work to achieve your stated goal, which I assume is to burn a certain number of calories in a particular time frame without sweating. Problem being - to burn calories, you need to exercise. To burn calories faster, you need extra intensity - you need your muscles to work harder, faster. The chemical process that allows your muscles to contract creates heat as a byproduct, and when you work your muscles hard and fast, heat builds up. And when heat builds up and you aren't in a cool environment, your body sheds that heat by sweating. If you want to sweat less, you either need to move to a cooler (or breezier) environment or else exercise for longer at a lower intensity. The type of exercise you do doesn't matter.
The solution to your problem is (1) wear technical fabrics, or less clothing in general, (2) crank the AC as much as possible, (3) blast as many fans as possible at your body, but most importantly (4) just get used to being sweaty, it's normal.
Depends how much you have to pay attention.
First off, I am not a fitness expert. YMMV.
But sometimes I do variations of bodyweight exercises in front of a TV, yes.
One day, for example, might be arm day. I sit and do leg curls for biceps. I straight pushups or tricep dips, use a pull-up bar if I have one; even just hanging is great.
Another day might be push up variation day; wide, narrow, inclined different ways, push up and “reach to the sky with one arm,” knee pushups at the end.
Yet another is leg day. Squats, jumping squats, lunges, butt kicks, heel lifts, other positions to get different muscles. Another day may be core, another day is more shoulder/back, and so on. And all this is without weights, or with at most like a dumbbell or a pull up bar, and some kind of chair or bed for certain positions.
Your eyes will drift away from the TV, and you get exhausted doing this stuff, but you can keep up with a show if you want.