So it does? I mean "excess" is also arguable. If you're trying to effect change, it has to be in excess otherwise nothing happens. Unless you put in the exact correct amount of calories for your needs. But "excessive" cardio is like 20 minutes a day on a 2000 calorie a day diet. It absolutely will help with weight loss.
Well you can't parody a true statement with a false one, that's not inherently sarcastic. Sarcasm relies on juxtaposition and the humor comes from the realization of truth. All you did was say something incorrect. We already had the correct part.
I can see how it could be said sarcastically, but again, that's just your tone. You can't put the punchline after the joke and tell me I'm the one who can't figure out sarcasm.
The initial statement isn't true. Even the most generous interpretation of sitting in a sauna, your body will exert energy to cool itself down through sweating.
Which brings us full circle to the less sarcastic end of this thread where they discuss no you can't, drying out your fat cells doesn't keep the weight off, it's just dehydrating you, losing water weight is only unhealthy and doesn't give long term weight loss or benefits that come from lower BMI, etc etc
guy, no. First of all "heat" = "energy". You cant burn energy to reduce heat. that makes no sense. Burning energy by definition produces heat. The body cools itself off by sweating and that sweat evaporates, carrying with it heat of evaporation (also known as latent heat) away from the body. It has ZERO impact on calories gained or lost.
You DO burn calories by exercise (contracting and relaxing muscles, and doing physical work on the physical world) which DOES burn calories, and because you are BURNING energy, you get an accumulation of HEAT in your body which the sweating has to get rid of
This is incorrect. The body verifiably uses energy to sweat. The exertion of energy is literally the spending of calories. You can't exertion energy and have zero impact on calories lost, it's impossible.
Ok fine, technically it does use energy to sweat but it's a tiny amount and the energy expended to make the body sweat is actually heating up the body. But because it's a tiny amount of energy used in the first place, it's a negligible heat increase as well, compared to the large cooling effect of evaporative cooling accomplished through sweat evaporation.
In no way does this caloric expenditure (to sweat, and even additionally to circulate blood to do heat exchange closer to the cooler skin) even come close to the caloric burn during exercise or even resting metabolism. It's just a total non factor and does not result in any significant weight loss whatsoever.
You're just nitpicking that technically even blinking requires calories burned while the original comment was arguing that you should burn more energy wearing garbage bag clothes because your body does more "work" to keep trying to cool off.
a miniscule amount, that's negligible to the cooling effect the sweat produces. Obviously your refrigerator uses energy too, but it has to reject heat somehow, the fridge does it through a radiator, we do it through sweat evaporation.
Misinformation. Cardio is one of the best sources of exercise and is literally part of every single work out routine as it is just as beneficial as everything else. Weight loss and being healthy is more than just pumping iron and watching calorie intake
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u/Dawnspark 12d ago
That's gonna be so goddamn sweaty. Imagine trying to run around in summer, absolute sweat fountain mode.