| It's normal to sweat more after you finish exercising | | | | The sweat evaporates and cools your body. The |
| than you do while you exercise. Your body | | | | amount of sweat that your body produces depends |
| temperature varies throughout the day, going from | | | | on the temperature of the blood that flows through |
| around 97 degrees in the early morning to about 99 | | | | your brain. When the temperature of the blood rises, |
| degrees in the early evening. Exercise raises body | | | | you sweat more. During exercise, your heart beats |
| temperature considerably. When you exercise, more | | | | rapidly to pump blood to bring oxygen to your muscles |
| than 70 percent of the energy that powers your | | | | and to pump the hot blood from the muscles to the |
| muscles is lost as heat. Less than 30 percent drives | | | | skin where the heat can be dissipated. When you stop |
| your muscles. Athletic competition can drive | | | | exercising, your heart slows down also, pumping less |
| temperatures as high as 105 degrees without harming | | | | blood to the skin. The heat accumulates in your |
| the athletes. | | | | muscles, causing blood temperature to rise higher, so |
| To keep your body temperature from rising too high, | | | | you sweat more right after you finish exercising than |
| your heart pumps large amounts of heat in the blood | | | | during exercise. |
| from your hot muscles to your skin and you sweat. | | | | |