Hello everyone welcome back to Fit Body Happy Joints. I am really excited to be back in the studio

recording new podcast episodes. I had my baby at the end of March and I took six weeks off so I'm back this week and I'm really

excited to be using my brain again although my brain is a little more sluggish than

it was before I had the baby but we are getting there. So today we're talking about

sweat and why sweat is not necessary for fitness results. Many people qualify a

workout by how much they sweat and And although it's satisfying, I always urge people to not put too much

stock into how much they sweat from their workout because the truth is I was in the best shape of my life

pre-pregnancy and almost never sweat in my workouts.

Because what drives muscle growth is low to muscles, proper nutrition, and enough rest.

What drives fat loss is being in a calorie deficit. So whether your goal is to build

muscle or quote unquote toning or even fat loss, sweating is not a part of that equation.

So let's break it down a little further.

When we exercise, muscle contraction releases heat as a byproduct.

So to regulate your internal temperature, you sweat.

When the sweat evaporates off your skin it

takes away the heat from your body and your body cools down. When larger muscle

groups contract or when they contract for longer periods of time,

there are more chemical reactions,

producing more heat, and therefore you sweat more.

This is why you sweat more when you're working lower body,

for example, versus upper body, or when you're doing cardio versus when you're

lifting because when you're working lower body for example muscles like your

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