No, this is not a post on hot flashes or night sweats, a common experience of a second life. It has nothing to do with menopause at all. It has to do with exercising. Wait, come back. If you’re not, you know you should, and if you are, you need to be sure you are benefiting from the effort. And sweating tells us that we are. Our bodies are like cars; they can overheat and shut down. Sweating is the coolant that keeps us going and that lost coolant has to be replaced, which is why we take water bottles with us to our workouts. (For more detail, go to Simple Fitness Solutions.) Sweating is a gauge I now use to insure I am exercising enough and properly.
So the ways I sweat most and in order of wetness are:
1) Zumba
This may sounds frivolous and silly but don’t you remember dancing to the Beatles and later the BeeGees and be dripping wet by the end of the night?
I replaced my trainer for a while with these classes ideally twice a week and I must be working harder because I’m sweating more.
Enough downward facing dogs and pigeons and I can feel the perspiration spreading across my back.
Because this I do by myself, the amount of sweat depends on how hard I push myself and I could probably push harder. At least I can listen to a book at the same time.
Naturally it’s hard to know how much you are sweating but you are, so I go by my heart beat. Again because this is a solitary activity, I could swim more vigorously but for just half the year with only outdoor pools available to me.
There are many more exercise activities to consider than the ones listed here. These work for me because of the availability of health clubs and pools. They all make you sweat depending on the effort you put in. But at least with swimming you don’t have to worry about perspiration. It’s washed away and you walk away wet yet refreshed. But you do have to show up in a bathing suit, enough to make any women over 35 break out in a cold sweat. But that’s a topic for another post.
Originally posted on Second Lives Club.