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Instead of trying to stop sweating, work at making it more effective, and dry faster.
A powerful highspeed fan will do the most, and if your house is humid, maybe a dehumidifier to help your sweat evaporate.
Counterintuitively, lowering your excerise temperature may make your sweat accumulation worse. You'll sweat less, but it won't evaporate as quickly leaving you more drenched.
Swimming? Still requires a towel, just not for sweat
At least for now I mostly just want to exercise in the house. I have some mental health issues and I find that unless I have something to watch to distract me, I can't really exercise for long without getting bored/stressed/mentally tired.
Perhaps when that issue is better I'll do a wider variety of activities like swimming, but of course weight can contribute to those problems, so it's a bit of a chicken and egg situation.
You still sweat while swimming. You have to be especially careful because you can get dehydrated but you don't realize it as much because you're not getting hot and sweaty.
Sweat mixed with water, how would you know otherwise?
Put a fan in front of you and wear as little as possible.
And temperature regulation is something that gets better and more efficient with exercise, too.
Especially as you're losing weight.
Wicking everything. 32 cool makes wicking underwear, there’s a wicking sweatband with a silicone band to keep it out of your eyes (and something called a gutter that is JUST the silicone band that routes it down the side.
Form fitting wicking undershirts - The more body contact, the better, since you wanted to grab every bit of moisture and wicked away from your skin. But in my case, the sweat drips from my head to the sweat band, goes from the sweat band down to the back of the sweat band, which winds up touching the back of my wicking shirt, which winds up soaking it up, and then the wicking shirt absorbs a bunch of moisture off of me, and then the underwear also soaks up a bunch of the moisture
Now, the problem you’re going to run into is everything is going to try and drip down that clothing to your shoes, and that I don’t have an answer for - but I know the stationary bikes have a fan and I wonder how much air that moves. But maybe you tuck a towel in near the shorts level and that soaks it up, and immediately afterwards it gets washed?
You have put waaaaaaaaay more thought than I thought possible into staying dry during a workout.
You’re making heat. Don’t worry about the sweat. I get a literal puddle underneath my bike on long sets. I can wring my shirt out when I run. I’m not even a particularly sweaty person. I know some people who can make a full puddle in 5-10 min. It is what it is. Especially if you’re at home, who cares!?
I’m pretty sure that you can sweat while getting frostbite. Your fingers, toes, nose, ears, etc. all are too exposed.
That's not really my concern. The issue is comfort and I end up getting a lot of pimples, which excessive sweat can contribute to.
Use a salicylic acid or other AHA infused serum or cream on your skin to combat the pimples.
I can totally relate. But to answer your original question (and reinforce one of the other poster's points), there's no getting around sweating, even if you're cold. I was digging out from the recent storm in the dark, gusty wind, temps well below freezing, taking things slowly. Still sweat through my inner shirt and hood.
If you reduce the relative humidity by using the AC, the sweat will be more likely to evaporate and less likely to drip off of you. I think that’s about all you can do, maybe buy a dehumidifier.
Do you bathe not long after your work out? What's your skin care routine like? Do you take hot showers?
Yeah I shower right after. Shower temp is a bit inconsistent but I try to get it to be warm but not hot. I use body wash in the shower then I do moisturize and then I've been using clyndamycin that I was prescribed for this issue.
Whoever prescribed you that knows way more than me.
You could get a cooling vest. You soak it in water and then it cools you through evaporation.
You've gotten some good advice, but a really powerful fan can make a big difference here. Doesn't need to be cold so much as move as much air as possible to help the sweat evaporate.
I used to play live music. Stage lights and dive bars can be very hot. I also sweat a lot. A squirrel cage fan blasting me full power in the face and upper body made a huge difference. It was the kind people dry flooded carpets with.
There isn't really a way to accomplish this. Fans and A/C are effective at cooling us down because we sweat. Heat is being generated within your muscles when you exercise, and you won't be able to cool yourself by drinking cold liquid because the heat just won't move around your body quickly enough.
The most effective way to cool your entire body is by using the surface area of your skin as a heat exchange with the outside environment through sweating and vasodilation.
AC does not require sweat to cool you down. It reduces the air temperature. If you exercise in a sufficiently cold room, which was cooled with AC, you would not sweat. You would also be extremely cold.
Come to my gym. It's like 10 degrees in there. I've never sweat.
https://www.asics.com/ie/en-ie/running-advice/how-to-manage-sweat-while-running/ Hopefully at least some of this is helpful.
Thanks. I think I'll at least try the running shirts. At the moment I just use whatever t-shirt I happen to be wearing that day. I guess if the sweat evaporates faster that is sort of a solution.
Wicking sportswear will reduce sweat compared to cotton shorts significantly, although itbis an improvement and not a perfect solution. Sometimes better than going shirtless because it wicks and evaporates, so you end up with a sweaty shirt but not big dripping puddles.
A warning is that those shirts can get pretty funky if you don't properly clean them soon after use and in most cases fabric softener clogs the wicking property. Follow the cleaning directions and they are fantastic!
Fans work well for me, but if it is humid in your house you it may not be as effective. Moving dry air can carry off a lot of sweat.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
More fans and/or a portable A/C certainly seem to help. If there is air moving over you while you sweat it will evaporate faster and cool you down as intended, making you more comfortable. You can't really stop sweat altogether, only manage it.
Just wondering, are you on an SSRI? They make you sweat way more than you would normally, especially your head
huh. I actually did start one somewhat recently (a few months now) and that somewhat coincided with when I increased my run from 30->60 mins. I do end up sweating a lot on my head, although also on the chest, back, and armpits. Probably not a reason to swap off the meds, but good to know I guess.
Shower as soon as you can afterwards
Sweat is a good thing