Why do I go so very red when exercising?

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Always have done when doing aerobic exercise. Currently doing C25K and go absolutely puce after my lumbering jog run.
Will it get less as fitness improves?
I'm also about 10 kgs overweight so wonder if that's a factor in overheating.

I too overheat, and end up "glowing" for a couple of hours - I sometimes run at lunchtime, but only if I have no meetings that afternoon!!

I think it is less noticeable than when I first started C25k, but still pretty beetroot.

I was 15kg over weight when I started, not need to loose another 5kg to get into normal BMI territory.

I'm just the same. I've lost a stone and am now a healthy BMI but I still go really red. I think some people just do as our body's way of cooling down. I don't sweat as quickly as some people I tend to go red first.

I am pretty fit and a size 8. I run a long way several times a week. I always turn puce. But I barely sweat so assume it's just how I cool down.

I've always gone very red when exercising irrespective of what weight I've been at. I guess some of us just have a pre-disposition to it.

It's your blood coming to the surface of your skin in an attempt to cool down. Normal.

Before I did much exercise I would become very red but not sweat much. Then my body sort of 'learnt' to sweat more.

Now I sweat AND turn red. V attractive.

I go red and sweat buckets (I'm sweaty anyway) no matter what my fitness level is. It used to always get me really worrying looks from my PE teacher in school as because of it I always get that white triange around the mouth/nose area. It's the one thing about my exercising that hasn't changed.

I look like a beetroot however fit I am.

I've always figured its good circulation.

I have always done this. At school, people would come up to me in the afternoon after games lesson to ask if I was OK as they thought I was upset. The same thing then happened at work with, on one occasion, my elderly male boss sending a younger female colleague in to have a chat with me as he thought it must be something I wasn't comfortable sharing with him. I stopped going to the gym before meetings as I worried a couple of clients so much. Hmmm, maybe there are some advantages to not exercising so much!

Velve I get that exact same white triangle. When I pass people when I'm out running they look at me as though they are worried I'm about to keel over due to my red face!

I sweat a lot! 10k/HM/5k....I sweat the same. Was usually my back, underarm and forehead. Now its the whole arm and my cheeks! And I go very very red!

TBH it aggravates my eczema and makes my skin suffer.

I don't think it is necessarily to do with being unfit or overweight: I gave up playing squash after the first couple of attempts because I turned into a boiled lobster lookalike - and I was only 19, slim and reasonably fit. I am a pale skinned, reddish-haired type, and suspect it might be related to that.

This happens to me - even when I was younger and very fit -TBH it puts me off exercising because I find it embarrassing and, when I've tried an exercise class, people look concerned and you can almost see them wondering who in the room does CPR. Do any of you also suffer from rosacea?

Also now I'm older, I've noticed I've got a lot a thread veins on my face which I've wondered is related to this.

Don't be put off. I have cholinergic urticaria so I get covered in hives when I exercise. It embarrassed me for so many years and I wish I had just got on with it
If I have a new PT or something I just explain so they don't think I'm unwell. But mainly if someone asks, I just say "heat rash" and they go "oh yeah my mate/sister/someone gets that" and it's no big deal
The more worried I get, the worse it gets!