sweating?

[insanity]

sometimes when i'm on the stairmaster for 30mins i sweat massively. sometimes when i am on the stairmaster for an hour i get more of a cold sweat and i am not all that wet.

the question i have is i burn 865 calories an hour with less sweat. and i burn 430 calories in a half hour and i'm soaked. which workout is more beneficial?

i always thought sweating helped lose weight.

 

[insanity]

plus after i workout after an hour i am starving. should i resist a sandwich?

 

[Throttle]

sweating has little if anything to do with losing bodyfat. since both are of roughly the same intensity, the longer session is much, much better at burning fat -- it takes you a while to get into a fat-burning mode, sometimes as long as 20 minutes.

 

[Mjazz]

Are you overweight? You should supplement your cardio with weights, I think you should eat after you workout because it builds muscle, which burns fat in turn. Sweating is also very healthy for you. I think because you know your going half an hour, your intensity is higher and when you go one hour, your intensity is lower, I would say the intense half hour is better. INTENSITY

 

[Throttle]

if the calorie readout is correct, he burns exactly half the calories in a half hour... now granted, if that half hour were more intense, it would be advantageous...

I would turn it around even further. Even if you're trying to lose bodyfat, cardio should be used to supplement diet & lifting, not the other way around.