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I seen a guy in his 60's out jogging on the track that I was on yesterday. It was a pretty hot day, and the guy is wearing shorts along with a heavy hoody type sweatshirt all zipped up tight, and with the hood pulled and drawn tightly over his head, (lest any body heat would be allowed to escape). The guy looked like he was gonna faint from heat exhaustion or have a stroke.
Not meaning to be a wiseguy here, but if I may, I'd just like to pose the same question here about sweating and fat burning that I felt like asking that guy yesterday who ran by me with that heavy sweatshirt on during a low 90 degree humid afternoon.....
If it's heat and/or sweat that are evidence of, or that cause fat loss, then how do people who swim laps in an olympic sized swimming pool, (such as Olympic swimmers for instance) ever lose fat from routine swimming? Since their body is in the water and remains cool, and also doesn't have any need to perspire, then it clearly isn't the sweating nor increased body heat which is burning up the carbs/calories, nor the fat istelf, right? And if it were the warmer body temp and the perspiration, then wouldn't that mean that people who exercise outdoors in Canada in the winter time would always have a tougher time getting lean than people in southern Florida?
The image of this guy all wrapped up in a tight heavy winter jacket while running is just fresh in my mind, and I couldn't help shaking my head when I saw him. What made it even more humorous is the fact that he had his skinny legs exposed with shorts well above the knees, but because he had a huge round mid section, he actually must have thought that covering all that up tightly with heavy clothing was going to increase body fat loss specifically in that area. Am I missing something concerning fat loss? If so, please explain.
Not meaning to be a wiseguy here, but if I may, I'd just like to pose the same question here about sweating and fat burning that I felt like asking that guy yesterday who ran by me with that heavy sweatshirt on during a low 90 degree humid afternoon.....
If it's heat and/or sweat that are evidence of, or that cause fat loss, then how do people who swim laps in an olympic sized swimming pool, (such as Olympic swimmers for instance) ever lose fat from routine swimming? Since their body is in the water and remains cool, and also doesn't have any need to perspire, then it clearly isn't the sweating nor increased body heat which is burning up the carbs/calories, nor the fat istelf, right? And if it were the warmer body temp and the perspiration, then wouldn't that mean that people who exercise outdoors in Canada in the winter time would always have a tougher time getting lean than people in southern Florida?
The image of this guy all wrapped up in a tight heavy winter jacket while running is just fresh in my mind, and I couldn't help shaking my head when I saw him. What made it even more humorous is the fact that he had his skinny legs exposed with shorts well above the knees, but because he had a huge round mid section, he actually must have thought that covering all that up tightly with heavy clothing was going to increase body fat loss specifically in that area. Am I missing something concerning fat loss? If so, please explain.