{"id":230672,"date":"2010-01-26T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/01\/26\/is-sweat-an-indicator-of-a-good-workout\/"},"modified":"2010-01-26T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T07:45:00","slug":"is-sweat-an-indicator-of-a-good-workout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/230672","title":{"rendered":"Is Sweat an Indicator of a Good Workout?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/advice\/\" rel=\"tag\">Advice<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/fitness\/\" rel=\"tag\">Fitness<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/ask-a-fitness-expert\/\" rel=\"tag\">Ask a Fitness Expert<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thatsfit.ca\/media\/2010\/01\/sweat-186.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><strong>Dear Sarah, <\/p>\n<p> It takes me upwards of 30 minutes to work up a sweat when I am doing cardio exercise (I usually use the stationary bicycle). Does sweating mean that I have reached the point where I am exercising hard enough? Am I working hard enough if it takes me that long? Basically, is sweating an indicator of a good workout?<\/p>\n<p> Beth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Dear Beth <\/p>\n<p> Many factors dictate whether or not you break out in a sweat. Your body is happiest at a temperature of 37C, but when you exercise your temperature rises above that and in response your brain has to do a bit of work. <\/p>\n<p> You see, there is a gland in your brain called the hypothalamus that controls your internal temperature. When your body is too hot, the hypothalamus sends a message to your nerve cells to contact your sweat glands. When these glands are stimulated, they secrete sweat. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Why sweat is not a good indicator of working out hard enough after the jump:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/01\/26\/is-sweat-an-indicator-of-a-good-workout\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Is Sweat an Indicator of a Good Workout?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/01\/26\/is-sweat-an-indicator-of-a-good-workout\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/forward\/19323656\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/01\/26\/is-sweat-an-indicator-of-a-good-workout\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Advice, Fitness, Ask a Fitness Expert Dear Sarah, It takes me upwards of 30 minutes to work up a sweat when I am doing cardio exercise (I usually use the stationary bicycle). Does sweating mean that I have reached the point where I am exercising hard enough? Am I working hard enough if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3039,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}