I Get Warm Really Quickly?

[aener]

So know barely anything of the human anatomy/biology, so I'm gonna ask you guys

I don't eat healthy, and my stamina is rather apalling. I do go out riding at least every other day though... Usually every day, for about 2-3 hours on a workday, and 4-6 (more in the summer) at the weekend.

When I get out riding, I can be freezing cold, and not wanting to move. I get really warm, really quickly though. Like - I went out tonight, and it's -2* at the minute. Once I got going though, I found it far too hot with a jumper on, and was even a tad warm in just a shirt and joggers. This was only on a solo ride, in a place I don't really enjoy - so I wasn't exactly doing much strenuous.

This is kinda handy in the winter, but come summer it's a right pain in the arse.

I've had one friend chastise me for being hediously unfit, and another saying I've got good circulation.

As I said - I'm clueless, so - can anyone shed any light?

Is it a good sign, or a sign of "self abuse"?

Cheers

[Revolver]

I would imagine it's not so much of a bad thing.

Do your fingers ever go blue?

Could be that you have wicked sick circulation.

[1a2bcio8]

So know barely anything of the human anatomy/biology, so I'm gonna ask you guys

I don't eat healthy, and my stamina is rather apalling. I do go out riding at least every other day though... Usually every day, for about 2-3 hours on a workday, and 4-6 (more in the summer) at the weekend.

When I get out riding, I can be freezing cold, and not wanting to move. I get really warm, really quickly though. Like - I went out tonight, and it's -2* at the minute. Once I got going though, I found it far too hot with a jumper on, and was even a tad warm in just a shirt and joggers. This was only on a solo ride, in a place I don't really enjoy - so I wasn't exactly doing much strenuous.

This is kinda handy in the winter, but come summer it's a right pain in the arse.

I've had one friend chastise me for being hediously unfit, and another saying I've got good circulation.

As I said - I'm clueless, so - can anyone shed any light?

Is it a good sign, or a sign of "self abuse"?

Cheers

Most likely if your unhealthy habits were having some sort of ill effect, you'd more likely be struggling to get warm more generally due to poor circulation supplying warm blood across the body. Although, obviously a lack of fitness can mean you warm up more quickly because your body has to work harder (use more energy) to do certain thing. I wouldn't worry though. I went for a run this evening and I got very warm despite the minus temperature. I also find that for riding trials. It is a form of gymnastics after all.

[aener]

Wicked.

Ta.

When I say I don't eat healthy - I don't mean chippies, McD's and kebabs all around. I mean that I'm not a health nut who doesn't eat chocolate, and lives off fruit, veg, fish and health-shakes

[eskimo]

You can't be that un-healthy if you're going out in sub zero temperatures every night to ride

[Lord Banks]

You might want to get yourself some cycling/running type tops, they do help a lot with sweating and keeping cool/warm etc. I used to think they were just so companies could make more money but they really do work.

[Krisboats]

You do exercise, you get hot and sweaty, it doesn't really matter on the outside temperature numb nuts. It's all to do with your core body temperature.

If you get hot without sweating lots then you're an inefficient cooler/rubbish athlete, though a quick google would have shown you that

[Matt Vandart]

Most likely if your unhealthy habits were having some sort of ill effect, you'd more likely be struggling to get warm more generally due to poor circulation supplying warm blood across the body. Although, obviously a lack of fitness can mean you warm up more quickly because your body has to work harder (use more energy) to do certain thing. I wouldn't worry though. I went for a run this evening and I got very warm despite the minus temperature. I also find that for riding trials. It is a form of gymnastics after all.

I think it's more because you are not losing heat efficiently due to bad circulation, ie, blood not getting to the cooling zones efficiently.

I think you are going to die

Nah only joking, if you don't smoke I wouldn't worry

[aener]

Most likely if your unhealthy habits were having some sort of ill effect, you'd more likely be struggling to get warm more generally due to poor circulation supplying warm blood across the body.

If you get hot without sweating lots then you're an inefficient cooler/rubbish athlete, though a quick google would have shown you that

Y'see - this is my problem. Who do I go with? Google gives me the same result... "It could be that you're really unfit - but it could also good circulation."

I'm inclined to side with Ben on this one - it sounds more appealing - bit I'd still like to know the ACTUAL answer.

[Krisboats]

Excessive Sweating While Exercising Means You’re Not Fit

In fact, it's just the opposite. Sweating during exercise is a sign of an efficient cooler. An athlete who has adapted to keep the body core cool during exercise will shunt blood to the skin’s surface more quickly and release heat from the body. At the same time, the sweat glands increase their output and thus cool the body during sweat evaporation. While fit people produce more sweat than sedentary folks, they lose less sodium, because more of it is reabsorbed by the body. The result is a more efficient cooler.

http://sportsmedicine.about.com/cs/conditi...a/aa052001a.htm

The purpose of sweat is to cool the body by sitting on the surface of the skin and allowing heat to escape from the body. Effective sweating is when someone is glistening as the moisture forms a cooling film over the skin. When sweat reaches the 'dripping' stage the body is struggling to effectively control the body temperature and will be less effective at cooling the body down. Whether someone glistens or drips, however, is not indicative of how hard they are working, it merely indicates how effectively they sweat. Factors such as the humidity and temperature of the environment you are working in and the clothing worn also have a significant effect on sweat production.

http://www.nutracheck.co.uk/Library/Exerci...exercise_1.html

Our sweat design is to cool when working out, though excess dripping is a case of doing too much too soon. Obviously there are exceptions to all this, which is why its no hard and fast rule. But if you aren't sweating much but getting hot then your body is failing at performing a task it really needs to. Given that i know your eating habits i'd say the copious amounts of energy drinks are bad and that more water would be far more beneficial than loads of those crappy cans of sugar juice.

[aener]

And given that I know them too, I'd say it's not a copius amount.

It averages out at 0.6 cans a day, and they're only 250ml

Stop sounding so big and all-knowing, twat

I think you kind of missed my point, in your over-eagerness to insult me.

Edit: I realise where you're coming from - but you should know by now... I don't tidy up very often

Edited December 21, 2009 by aener

[Krisboats]

I'm not eagerly trying to insult you, but i always see you drinking milkshakes/energy drinks and eating cookies/crappy noodles and never see you drink just a normal glass of water. Your car is practically an energy drink can with wheels!

Then you come on here moaning about always being warm when riding.... well done genius! Physical exertion causes the body to heat from the inside. You'll get hot no matter what the weather is doing outside.

It's normal, everyone gets it and you brought up diet, not me. Tell you what, i'll make it really simple so you don't miss my point this time.

When you do exercise, you get hot. If you...

-Don't perspire you're an inefficient cooler and your failing to keep your body temperature normal through the means of sweating.

-Perspire a little bit then your bang on the ball and your body is doing a cracking job.

-Sweat like a waterfall then your again an inefficient cooler but at the opposite end of the scale, you're sweating too much and losing body fluids unnecessarily.

Also on a side note, sweating isn't an accurate measure of general fitness levels so people who say your fit if you sweat, shit if you don't etc are talking out of their arse.

[Dale-Hill]

http://sportsmedicine.about.com/cs/conditi...a/aa052001a.htm

http://www.nutracheck.co.uk/Library/Exerci...exercise_1.html

Our sweat design is to cool when working out, though excess dripping is a case of doing too much too soon. Obviously there are exceptions to all this, which is why its no hard and fast rule. But if you aren't sweating much but getting hot then your body is failing at performing a task it really needs to. Given that i know your eating habits i'd say the copious amounts of energy drinks are bad and that more water would be far more beneficial than loads of those crappy cans of sugar juice.

But there so nice

[1a2bcio8]

Y'see - this is my problem. Who do I go with? Google gives me the same result... "It could be that you're really unfit - but it could also good circulation."

I'm inclined to side with Ben on this one - it sounds more appealing - bit I'd still like to know the ACTUAL answer.

I'm not sure we were giving opposing ideas? I was talking about how poor circulation can lead to problems of getting warm, more generally than just with riding but instead with most situations. Like when I smoked ciggarettes and ate shit all the time, I couldn't get my feet warm at night and i felt cold when other people didn't. Kris was talking about your response to warming up, regarding your (homeostatic) sweat capacity. It is true however, that lack of fitness can cause you to heat up more easily because your body is inefficient at activity, meaning more energy is required to do an activity. The utilization of controlled energy always carries with it the loss of uncontrolled energy in the form of heat. More energy used = more heat produced. We can be inefficient in this sense because of lacking muscular co-ordination or because we lack a properly working cardiovascular system, respiratory system, etc. which causes a bottleneck that requires the use of more energy to compensate for that fact.