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.
Depends how much you have to pay attention.
First off, I am not a fitness expert. YMMV.
But sometimes I do variations of bodyweight exercises in front of a TV, yes.
One day, for example, might be arm day. I sit and do leg curls for biceps. I straight pushups or tricep dips, use a pull-up bar if I have one; even just hanging is great.
Another day might be push up variation day; wide, narrow, inclined different ways, push up and “reach to the sky with one arm,” knee pushups at the end.
Yet another is leg day. Squats, jumping squats, lunges, butt kicks, heel lifts, other positions to get different muscles. Another day may be core, another day is more shoulder/back, and so on. And all this is without weights, or with at most like a dumbbell or a pull up bar, and some kind of chair or bed for certain positions.
Your eyes will drift away from the TV, and you get exhausted doing this stuff, but you can keep up with a show if you want.