I just recently got back into cycling after a 2+ year hiatus and have noticed that I am sweating like crazy on hotter days especially on climbs when I speed is slower.
First of all let me clarify that my body composition is around the same as when I was doing triathlon competitively.....roughly 138-140 lbs at 5'6". So it's not like I am carrying a ton fo extra fat insulating.
I have been swimming around 100K per month pretty well every month since Dec 2015, so it's going on past 2.5 years. That's been my main exercise. I'm not doing any hot weather running in oppressive humity and heat anymore and no real trainer rides until quite recently.
In any case, when I was more of a runner (with the same body composition), I would just get instantly cold in most pools. Unless I was swimming hard, I'd freeze. If I went to competition pools, I'd get close to hypothermic if I tried easy swims. They all needed to be hard. In warmer pools I could do easy swims, but only so long.
Fast forward 2.5 years, I don't get cold as easily in pools. I have been chalking it up to actually doing much harder swim sets, focusing on IM and fly training and since it's my main workout I am doing the swims harder than when I mainly ran and biked.
But last month I started some good riding. I was on a hiatus from riding due to disc issues. While they have not cleared up, I can ride now on smooth roads and am getting back control over my left leg. My sessions on the trainer suggest that I am generally riding at the watts I used to previously, maybe a tad less. So it's not like I am producing a large amount of watts at higher weight creating way more heat. If anything I am probably riding at 90-95% of the former wattages.
So my only thought is that with all this swimming in a cold environment, my body has started adapting to generating more heat for the same/similar workload just to stay warm but now that I am doing other forms of exercise it's poorly adapted for environments with less cooling.
For the swimmers around here, have you experienced any of this.
Of note, when I used to return from Kona or St. Croix, and get on the trainer, I would barely sweat for 2-3 weeks even if I did reasonably high watts....then it would be back to normal sweat rates.
First of all let me clarify that my body composition is around the same as when I was doing triathlon competitively.....roughly 138-140 lbs at 5'6". So it's not like I am carrying a ton fo extra fat insulating.
I have been swimming around 100K per month pretty well every month since Dec 2015, so it's going on past 2.5 years. That's been my main exercise. I'm not doing any hot weather running in oppressive humity and heat anymore and no real trainer rides until quite recently.
In any case, when I was more of a runner (with the same body composition), I would just get instantly cold in most pools. Unless I was swimming hard, I'd freeze. If I went to competition pools, I'd get close to hypothermic if I tried easy swims. They all needed to be hard. In warmer pools I could do easy swims, but only so long.
Fast forward 2.5 years, I don't get cold as easily in pools. I have been chalking it up to actually doing much harder swim sets, focusing on IM and fly training and since it's my main workout I am doing the swims harder than when I mainly ran and biked.
But last month I started some good riding. I was on a hiatus from riding due to disc issues. While they have not cleared up, I can ride now on smooth roads and am getting back control over my left leg. My sessions on the trainer suggest that I am generally riding at the watts I used to previously, maybe a tad less. So it's not like I am producing a large amount of watts at higher weight creating way more heat. If anything I am probably riding at 90-95% of the former wattages.
So my only thought is that with all this swimming in a cold environment, my body has started adapting to generating more heat for the same/similar workload just to stay warm but now that I am doing other forms of exercise it's poorly adapted for environments with less cooling.
For the swimmers around here, have you experienced any of this.
Of note, when I used to return from Kona or St. Croix, and get on the trainer, I would barely sweat for 2-3 weeks even if I did reasonably high watts....then it would be back to normal sweat rates.