10-26-2007, 10:50 AM
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#1 | | Member
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| Sweating
Hey hi everyone.
Okay I'm a beginning fencer but one problem that bugs me quite a bit these days is the amount of sweat I'm releasing during trainings. Granted I'm from sunny humid Singapore, and that my training area is non-air-conditioned and very unventilated, but it seems that I still manage to sweat buckets.
So here's my question, is this sweat thing a personal genetic thing, or is it because I'm not very fit or something. Quite irritating to be basically a wet slopping bucket after ten minutes of warmup and standing around in the training area.
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10-26-2007, 01:26 PM
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#2 | | Bitter young coach
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| You could fill an oil drum with my sweat when I practice. It's normal. Personally, if I'm NOT sweating that hard, I feel like I'm not practicing right.
Also, should this really be in the coaching corner?
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10-27-2007, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by lanyingjie  So here's my question, is this sweat thing a personal genetic thing, or is it because I'm not very fit or something. Quite irritating to be basically a wet slopping bucket after ten minutes of warmup and standing around in the training area. | Different people seem not only to sweat different amounts, but vary drastically in how much it bothers them.
Invest in a fullish set of UnderArmor; that generally helps folks be bothered less by the sweat. Quote: |
Originally Posted by RITFencing Also, should this really be in the coaching corner? | Seems unlikely. Perhaps it will be moved. | |
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10-27-2007, 02:19 PM
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#4 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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| It's idiosyncratic. We've a fencer in my club who has to change t-shirt, jacket, knickers and lamé between pools and DE's in competitions. 20 minutes of fencing and it's all soaked through, and I mean soaked.
Of course, he only fences foil, so it could be a fitness issue.
But seriously, no, he's fit enough, he just sweats prodigiously.
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10-27-2007, 05:12 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
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| Yeah, I sweat buckets. Part of it is I am out of shape, and part of it is the 4 layers of clothes you have to put on to fence in  | |
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10-27-2007, 06:14 PM
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#6 | | Feline Groovy
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| Try fencing during a hot flash some time.......  | |
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10-27-2007, 07:50 PM
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#7 | | Scavenger
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Originally Posted by VorpalCat Try fencing during a hot flash some time....... | And how is that different from doing ANYthing during a hot flash?  Though I admit that when I'm fencing I sweat so much I don't notice if I'm having any hot flashes.
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10-27-2007, 09:42 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
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| I'm in decent enough shape and I still sweat like mad. I usually take four gloves, two under armours and two jackets with me to a competition.
That's if I fence two weapons that day. If not I use two or three gloves and two shirts.
It's a sweaty sport. Oh well. | 
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10-27-2007, 11:56 PM
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#9 | | Feline Groovy
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Originally Posted by Peach And how is that different from doing ANYthing during a hot flash? Though I admit that when I'm fencing I sweat so much I don't notice if I'm having any hot flashes. | Heh! I'm still on the learning curve in that department. What's maddening is that I don't feel hot, I'm just suddenly sweating like mad! Oh well, at least when it happens at fencing, I've got an 'excuse' for being drenched.
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10-28-2007, 01:52 AM
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#10 | | Member
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| Oh wells, I figured it might be a fit or not thing. It's terrible here in Singapore, tropics. My lame is in terrible shape after a full day of competition, and I've heard of a guy who had a full day of competition. His lame just lasted him to the final, the next day, all the drying and airblowing just couldn't stop green patches from appearing and condemning his fresh-from-the-sealed-bag lame.
Sweat's a way of life here, but I figured it might be fitness issues for me. I'll just...carry on sweating and drinking buckets then.
1.5 litres per hour of water's the record for me so far, wonder if I can push it further xD. | |
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10-28-2007, 07:09 AM
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#11 | | Senior Member
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| If it's any consolation, rest assured that the fitter you get, the faster you'll break sweat and the more you''ll sweat, too. 
After all, it is body's way to keep your muscles cool (and also make your skin slippery and cover it with antibiotics too), and when you train your muscles, you train the cooling, too.
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10-28-2007, 10:54 AM
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| o.O Serious? I thought it'd be a case of your body being so used to the exertion that it doesn't need to mobilise all the resources to churn out so much energy and hence doesn't generate so much heat.
Or something like that. Looks like I'll have to get that new lame... | |
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10-28-2007, 10:57 AM
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| You might want to consider a non copper lame... | |
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10-28-2007, 05:42 PM
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#14 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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Originally Posted by VorpalCat Try fencing during a hot flash some time....... | Pffft! I live in Arizona, we have 6-month-long hot flashes called "summers"... 
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10-28-2007, 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Pffft! I live in Arizona, we have 6-month-long hot flashes called "summers"... | | |
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10-28-2007, 08:29 PM
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#16 | | Scavenger
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Originally Posted by VorpalCat Heh! I'm still on the learning curve in that department. What's maddening is that I don't [i]feel[i] hot, I'm just suddenly sweating like mad! Oh well, at least when it happens at fencing, I've got an 'excuse' for being drenched. | Having been a fencer since before I started getting them, I'm already used to being that bizarrely sweaty, so it doesn't bother me 
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10-29-2007, 09:56 AM
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#17 | | Feline Groovy
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Originally Posted by Peach Having been a fencer since before I started getting them, I'm already used to being that bizarrely sweaty, so it doesn't bother me | Ditto on fencing came first ... it's only a bother (okay, confusing) when I'm just standing around doing nothing and am suddenly drenched. If I'm going to be mopping sweat off of my face, I'd at least like to have had some fun getting to that point! | |
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10-31-2007, 06:22 PM
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Originally Posted by VorpalCat If I'm going to be mopping sweat off of my face, I'd at least like to have had some fun getting to that point! | If I knew how to take a quote into the out-of-context thread, I would point out that there's more than one way to do that!
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10-31-2007, 07:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Beloit Fencer of Old If I knew how to take a quote into the out-of-context thread, I would point out that there's more than one way to do that! | Heh...rep for you.
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