I’ve been trying to exercise more lately. I’m now running on a machine at home for about an hour a day. I’m not really getting tired, but my big problem is that I sweat A LOT. (I’m overweight, so that probably has something to do with it.) I’ve been trying to manage it with towels to wipe off the sweat, but I would have to use an unreasonable number of towels to get through the whole thing without being drenched in sweat by the end.
So what I was wondering is: Could I cool my body down with fans, AC, drinking cold water, etc enough that I could greatly reduce the amount I sweat during exercise? I tried using a small fan I have in the house, but it wasn’t really powerful enough to make any meaningful change. If I got a big fan or more fans or whatever, could I achieve what I’m after? Or does that not remove the body heat fast enough for my body to not start sweating?
Or if anyone has any other solutions to this that would help. I think stamina-wise I could probably push my exercise longer, but I’m not really willing to do that if it means being covered in buckets of sweat for like half an hour.
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!