Do you sweat when you are swimming?

United States
December 14, 2006 6:48pm CST
I think that you do sweat theres just no way to tell if you are because you are surrounded by water! What do you guys think?
14 responses
@leese29 (340)
• United States
15 Dec 06
I was stumped reading your question and I had no idea what the answer was so I looked it up and here is what I found: "People often ask if they sweat in a swimming pool? Regardless of where you exercise, if you get hot enough, you will sweat. Sweat produced in a pool or any water for that matter does not cool you effectively because it does not evaporate, it just rinses off. Body heat lost in water is mainly due to convection and conduction. "
@jess368 (3368)
• United States
16 Dec 06
Wow. i would have never guessed! i cant imagine that when your in water cooler than our own body temp. you could sweat, but i guess as you said its possible. now hot tubs on the other hand get super hot, and i always sweat in those!
@amministra (1040)
• Italy
16 Dec 06
i not
@amministra (1040)
• Italy
16 Dec 06
i not
@spec71 (796)
• United States
15 Dec 06
i dont know swimming but i have never herd about sweating while swimming
@nagaprash (354)
• India
15 Dec 06
yes i do sometimes.............
@pelya178 (693)
• United States
16 Dec 06
ew no how can u sweat ur covered in water! ewwww lol
@sweetcakes (3504)
• United States
15 Dec 06
that's so funny you ask that question i went swimming yesterday and i was wondering if i was sweating or not...so i would like to know the same thing.
• India
15 Dec 06
I think we sweat, but we can't notice that while we swim. Sweat is output of the effort and swimming is a physical activity.
@cuttyrish (2667)
• United States
15 Dec 06
i think we dont sweat when we sim, because the water is cool, and we sweat when its hot.
@ankagar (1034)
• India
15 Dec 06
No i dont sweat when i swim.
@Kscott (634)
• United States
15 Dec 06
swimming - swimming
Yes, I think you sweat when you are swimming, but like you said it more than likely rolls off in the water. This is a good question, but I think that since swimming is an exercise, and you are exerting yourself, using your muscles, etc. that yes you do...I know when I get out of a pool after a few laps, I immediately bead up and feel hot...the water makes you feel cooler, but I dont think that it is actually cooling off your body...it's fooling you!!LOL.
• United States
15 Dec 06
Yes, you can sweat while swimming. Try doing water aerobics sometime and you will notice on the parts of body out of the water that you will sweat. Of course you will not feel it on the parts of body that are submerged as the water in the pool washes it away. That's part of why pools have to have chemicals though is to balance out the ph and to clean it from oil secretions and sweat secretions from people's skin.
• Philippines
15 Dec 06
I noticed not only once that while I was in water, I was sweating on the upper part of my body not submerged in water. Is there any scientific proof on this?
@jal1948 (1359)
• India
15 Dec 06
I dont think one can sweat while swimming,because we are surrounded by water which acts as a cooling agent and our pores are closed.