When does “movement” become “working out?” Simple: When you break a solid sweat! It’s a sign that your body is working hard, and not coincidentally, it’s also when a lot of the most important benefits of a workout start happening. Your lungs, muscles, heart – they’re all in on the action!
But did you know that sweating also has unique health benefits all its own? Here’s what you need to know, and how you can sweat more whenever you want to!
What’s so great about sweat?
You may hear sweat and think “ick.” But it’s time to give perspiration some appreciation! Sweating is a crucial that helps your body to renew, refresh, and protect itself. Here’s how.
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Detoxification: When your core body temperature and skin temperature rises, your skin pores expand. Combined with the onset of sweating, this helps flushes out toxins, dirt, and impurities.
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Circulation: A rise in body temperature also helps increase circulation near the skin surface. This helps deliver oxygen and nutrients throughout your skin tissue.
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Hydration: Sweat is a natural moisturizer, helping to maintain hydration in skin tissue
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Exfoliation: Sweat is more than just salty water. It’s also a mineral-rich natural exfoliant that helps remove dead skin cells and debris.
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Antimicrobial and Wound Healing: Know what else is in sweat? Numerous peptides that provide protection against pathogens that your body wants to keep out!
Does sweating burn calories?
Unfortunately, the simple act of sweating doesn’t burn calories. The amount of calories you burn each day depends on your calorie intake, activity level, and exercise intensity. Sweating is often (but definitely not always) a byproduct of those last two.
But this doesn’t mean that sweating shouldn’t be part of your six-pack strategy! Here are two ways it can help you earn results you can see and feel:
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Opens pores to help fat-burning nutrients in topical creams to penetrate deeply
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Heat helps increase “mind muscle connection” to abs
Over the course of weeks and months, those two benefits can definitely help boost your results. Plus, sweating simply feels good and lets you know that you’ve done good work, which can help release all those feel-good chemicals like serotonin and dopamine. The more you feel those hormones, the more eager you’ll be to come back and do another workout!
Your Three-Part Kit for Better, Sweatier Cardio
1. A Thermogenic Topical Cream
The SteelFit community has told us that they view their cardio lives in two chapters: BEFORE they tried Abs of Steel Fat-Burning Cream, and after! And sweat has a lot to do with it.
Abs of Steel contains heat-generating compounds to help the active ingredients penetrate deeply into the hypodermis and target your existing body fat. Many people also find this helps create a “mind-muscle connection” that is helpful during ab-focused workouts. This is the secret weapon our athletes sweat by!
How to use it: Rub Abs of Steel into the skin on your abdomen 15 min. before a workout.
2. Wrapping Up Your Abs
You may think you know what it feels like to sweat. But the first time you do cardio wearing an adjustable waist trimmer, you’ll discover a whole new level of perspiration!
SteelFit’s adjustable neoprene “sweat belt” increases heat and sweat around the core and back within minutes. And if you wear it with Abs of Steel like SteelFit athlete and IFBB bikini pro Lucia Malavaze, expect to have to wring it out afterward! “When I put it on, I sweat like crazy!” she says.
3. A Sweat-Focused Pre-Workout
Plenty of high-octane pre-workouts are simply too intense for a walk on a treadmill or stairmaster. That’s why we created our own cardio-focused pre-workout with two powerhouse sweat-producing ingredients. Here’s what you’ll find in Steel Sweat.
Evodia Fruit: The fruit from the Evodia rutaecarpa tree has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for hundreds of years to mimic the effects of capsaicin (chili peppers), but without the intense (and sometimes painful) taste. It brings up the overall heat level in your body while also helping to prevent fat storage.
Vitamin B3: This vitamin, also known as niacin, is an essential nutrient for a healthy nervous system, digestive health, and for skin health and glow. But when you take it on its own, it can also create a mild but sweaty skin flush and noticeably increases sweat production. It’s a perfect sweaty dance partner for evodia fruit!
Another great thing about Steel Sweat? It’s light on stimulants, with just 100mg of caffeine per serving. This makes it a perfect jitter-free pick-me up for morning cardio or anytime you’re NOT looking to put the pedal to the metal!
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