Exercise Intensity

The Best and Worst Ways to Measure a Workout

Sore muscles, target heart rate, calorie burn, and more. Our expert sounds off on the legitimate and not-so-legitimate ways we assess a workout well done
By Emily G. W. Chau fitbie
 

How Much You Sweat

As much as we’d like to rely on outward signs of a workout well done, the puddle you leave behind on the gym floor has little bearing on how effective your sweat session was. Sweating is your body’s way of cooling itself, but that doesn’t correlate with how many or how few calories you burned. Rather, some people just naturally perspire more than others, as well as people who are pregnant, have diabetes, or are on anti-depressants.

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