Working out in sweat shirts?

Does anyone work out in sweats? Does it do anything really? I tried it today and my heart monitor said I burned like 45 more calories than usual...I also sweated super hard.

I wear light weight moisture wicking stuff.  I don't want to carry the extra weight of the sweat or get to hot.  I would rather be a little to cold than overly hot. 

I really don't track my workout calories unless it is a long run as I typically know what my workouts are and don't always shoot to replace the calories.  I know when I workout I get to eat one way and when I don't I have to eat another way.

i hate being hot and sweaty.  I guess it reminds me of when I was obese... so I wear as little as necessary when I run...  It may burn more calories, but I would think monitoring your heart rate would also be useful - you don't want to overtax yourself.

I used to run in sweats and then one day I discovered the light weight moisture wicking clothing, and have never gone back.

That heavy cotton stuff just gets all sweaty and nasty, traps in the sweat and is just nasty.
Your heart rate and exertion level is a better judge of how many calories you burn.
So wearing that heavy sweaty stuff may have made you hotter, may have increased your heart rate, and may have actually caused your monitor to estimate more calories burned.

Scott

I dunno. I kind of liked it...the sweating super hard part, normally I work out in a tank and those compression capri things.. I always feel so cold and even though my heart rate might be in the 180s...I can barely break a sweat.  So I think I might keep wearing the sweat shirt just to feel like I'm doing something lol.

I can't explain it, but when I got all sweaty the other day I was like "Yay! It's finally working" and I worked out like longer and harder. I felt like it was the best work out to date.

The heart rate monitor I use doesn't go off of heat, just your heart rate and the electrodes and it's moderately acurate.

I never eat to replace my calories...ever. I only eat 1200...regardless of what I burn or don't burn lol. I never subtract my burned calories from my total. I just wear the heart monitor to get an idea of if I'm actually doing any good exercising or if I'm just huffing and puffing away for no reason. Keeps me in line sorta...

I know it doesn't go off heat.

What I'm saying is that by raising your body temperature, you put more stress on your body, so your heart rate probably went up, or went up faster or maintianed at that level for a longer period.

What heart rate monitor do you have?
Most of them don't actually take into account your heart rate.  They have a fixed formula they used for calculating your caloric burn.

The other thing to consider is they also don't usually take into account the amount of calories you would have burned just sitting there being a couch potato.  So the number you see isn't all just the workout you have performed, it also includes those calories you would have burned doing nothing.

I have a polar Ft7.

Like I said though it doesn't really matter. I know that it's a decently  accurate monitor and that's all I really use it for. I have compared it to a telemetry machine I have from work. (I'm a nurse.)

All I really use it for is to make sure my heartrate is in a target zone. I could completely careless if it said I burned 50 calories or 500..I know that if my heart rate is high and I'm working out and keeping it high for X amount of time...it's a good thing.

I was just asking about the sweats and wanted to know if anyone else did it.

If all you had mentioned was the sweats, that's all I would have commented on, but you brought up the extra calorie burn and the h/r monitor.

Just trying to give you a bigger picture with more info so you werent making an assumption of actual work vs perception.

i also dont work out in sweats any more because it is heavy and to me i also sweat more and i get uncomfortable, there are so many new fabrics out there and the light weight fabrics are easier to work out in and when you look at yourself in the mirror and you see your new figure in the mirror it make you feel more confident! ( i do anyway!) i get them on sale in macys and marshalls, tjmaxx.  i save sweats for keeping warm and going to the supermarket in a pinch

i sweat..... a lot.  So i typically go with the minimal amount of clothing that is not too embarassing (which usually means a moisture wicking tank top with compression tank top underneath and moisture wicking running shorts with compression underwear for bottoms).  what scott says is true about core temp, as you body's core temp increases, adding stress,  your HR will increase making it more difficult to perform the same task at lower temps (i..e, your fastest mile sprint time will happen at cooler temps if all other conditions are equal).  On the other hand, if you like the feeling of a higher core temp and more sweat, that is a comfort thing.  As your HR increases you may burn more calories, but you may also not be able to go as long.