How hard do you sweat during workouts?
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Yesterday I did one of the most grueling workouts I've ever done (Couch to 5K ) and while I could feel that I was moist/damp on my back, groin and arm pits, I wasn't drenched like my husband or other people at the gym. It can't be that I didn't really push myself because today the tops and front of my legs are very sore (not like a pulled muscle, but sore like I had an intense workout), plus the muscles in both sides of my waist feel a little sore.
I was talking to my co-worker who works out like a champ and she was telling me that she sweats so much at the gym that she feels embarrassed. I was like, "Everyone sweats" and she goes, "Oh no, it POURS off me like buckets. I look and feel so gross after because all my hair is soaked."
When I used to go to aerobics with my Mom, she'd be sweating so hard she'd constantly have to wipe with a towel. Even though she weighs more than me, Mom is in way better physical shape because she's 60 years old and is able to go up and down stairs without getting winded, she carries the other end of couches up and down stairs, and at the gym she does reps with 20 lb weights, whereas I can barely do 5 lbs.
It it normal for some people to just not sweat as hard as others when working out or does it mean that I need to drink more water/push harder? The closest I even came to sweat profusely was back in college. I had a lot of time on my hands, so I used to go to the gym for 2 - 3 hours a day and I'd max out the elliptical (it only goes up to 9999 calories burned, and I'd use the machine so long, it'd flip back over to 0 and start working it's way back up to 9,999) and even then I was pretty wet, but not drenched to the point that sweat was running down my face and dripping off me.