Why do I sweat more after walking or running than while walking or running?

Speedy said:

Why do I sweat more after walking or running than while walking or running?

Here’s my guess.
You sweat just as much when you run but it does it’s cooling thing and evaporates.
When you stop moving you’re still hot but there is not much cooling evaporation taking place so you sweat more.

Peak Warming Man said:

Speedy said:

Why do I sweat more after walking or running than while walking or running?

Here’s my guess.
You sweat just as much when you run but it does it’s cooling thing and evaporates.
When you stop moving you’re still hot but there is not much cooling evaporation taking place so you sweat more.

Thanks PWM. Yes, I had guessed that that may have something to do with it.

It just seems so excessive that it could not possibly be evaporating at walking pace.

Speedy said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Speedy said:

Why do I sweat more after walking or running than while walking or running?

Here’s my guess.
You sweat just as much when you run but it does it’s cooling thing and evaporates.
When you stop moving you’re still hot but there is not much cooling evaporation taking place so you sweat more.

Thanks PWM. Yes, I had guessed that that may have something to do with it.

It just seems so excessive that it could not possibly be evaporating at walking pace.

i’d say the upped energy burning for (or the heat from) is still happening, so the perspiration doesn’t wind back immediately, + the persiration system doesn’t have like a switch that’s flicked.

ya flitch swicker :)

certainly air movement even a little bit does a lot, like pwm said

not quite done

lot of energy goes into work of movement(energy conversion), but then’s not or less so, so goes into more heat?

bit like if disconnect a solar panel (during the day), that’ll get hotter than the other connected ones(seems to anyway)

And doesn’t your metabolic rate and core temperature stay elevated for a while? Along with the muscles still being Quite Warm for some time>

It’s just a matter of building up body heat during the exercise and cooling down once you’ve stopped, after which your attention is concentrated on mopping up the sweat, which will continue until your body temperature has dropped again.

In recent weeks when I’ve been hauling heavy shopping home on foot, I’ve found a couple of stops to mop up the sweat have been welcome, but I’ve always been aware that the serious mopping will occur once I’ve ended the journey.

reminds me of piston engines when ya flog ‘em, and running hot, when you idle them they’ll boil a bit, I guess as the heat comes out of pistons (piston caps perhaps), the heat transfer from the pistons (via rings too) into cylinder walls/liners is probably more rapid.

“It didn’t take.”

Just a thought. When you are exercising the sweat is quickly evaporated by the air movement around the body, but when you stop your body will still be generating heat and you continue to sweat, but now there is less air movement to cool, which produces a hotter micro-environment near the skin and as the moisture cannot now evaporate and so cool the body. However, the body in this hotter micro-environment will produce more sweat to compensate, until the body stops producing excessive heat.

PermeateFree said:

Just a thought. When you are exercising the sweat is quickly evaporated by the air movement around the body, but when you stop your body will still be generating heat and you continue to sweat, but now there is less air movement to cool, which produces a hotter micro-environment near the skin and as the moisture cannot now evaporate and so cool the body. However, the body in this hotter micro-environment will produce more sweat to compensate, until the body stops producing excessive heat.

What a great idea.

Peak Warming Man said:

Speedy said:

Why do I sweat more after walking or running than while walking or running?

Here’s my guess.
You sweat just as much when you run but it does it’s cooling thing and evaporates.
When you stop moving you’re still hot but there is not much cooling evaporation taking place so you sweat more.

I agree.

(Either that or because you feel more embarrassed after exercise than during exercise).

>(Either that or because you feel more embarrassed after exercise than during exercise).

that funny

Peak Warming Man said:

PermeateFree said:

Just a thought. When you are exercising the sweat is quickly evaporated by the air movement around the body, but when you stop your body will still be generating heat and you continue to sweat, but now there is less air movement to cool, which produces a hotter micro-environment near the skin and as the moisture cannot now evaporate and so cool the body. However, the body in this hotter micro-environment will produce more sweat to compensate, until the body stops producing excessive heat.

What a great idea.

Yes. That makes perfect sense.

mollwollfumble said:

Peak Warming Man said:

PermeateFree said:

Just a thought. When you are exercising the sweat is quickly evaporated by the air movement around the body, but when you stop your body will still be generating heat and you continue to sweat, but now there is less air movement to cool, which produces a hotter micro-environment near the skin and as the moisture cannot now evaporate and so cool the body. However, the body in this hotter micro-environment will produce more sweat to compensate, until the body stops producing excessive heat.

What a great idea.

Yes. That makes perfect sense.

Yes, I bet PWM wishes he had thought of that.