Why should I take a sauna?

When a simple shower and soap is not enough, this procedure allows you to purify inside out.

 

The sauna, also known as sauna bath, is submitting the body to high temperature for the skin pores to open up, sweat much more, eliminate impurity and toxins in a complementary way to the daily bath with water and soap.

 

It’s not recent fashion. Archaeological surveys have found it was already doing in Scandinavia 7000 years ago, much before the classic gymnasiums. Don’t miss the empire Romans whom the therma was not only a physical health place but social meeting.

 

If you’re a bodybuilder or an athlete, taking a sauna should be part of your weekly routine because you need to purify your skin deeply, you need a space of personal relaxation, because it stimulates the good blood stream. Remember that, even when you do anaerobic training, a good blood irrigation eases the development and keeping of muscles.

 

How should I take a sauna?

It’s recommendable to make an appointment to the sauna once or twice a week. The technique is based on submitting the body to controlled changes of body temperature for stimulating the sweating.

 

1. You should take a cold shower, rubbing your skin with soap, starting in the feet, then going up to your head.
2. Go into the sauna, stand there for lapses of 15 to 20 minutes if you’re a beginner, 30 to 45 minutes if you already have experience.
3. Take a 5-minute cold shower starting in the feet then going up to the head, again (you can also  immerse into a cold water pool or tub).
4. Repeat all the procedure once or twice more.
5. Rest layed about 15 minutes in a quiet, low-light room.

 

If you’re a beginner, you’re perfect doing one cooling-warming-cooling cycle until you temper for repeating it but the next session.

 

Steam or dry? The important is you sweat. However, you could begin the first cycle with a steam bath, then going into the dry sauna, or doing the dry in one session then the steam in the next one. Every sauna service should hire a specialist who assign where you must stand to enjoy better the benefits, even.

 

Oh, take the sauna bath totally naked (if the place rules allow it). If you cover up, your body won’t sweat straight, and the idea is releasing pretty easily  all the bad stuff your pores keep in,. It’s true you may feel ashamed, but think about you do this for health, not necessarily for vanity. Well, it’s valid too.

 

Which cases mustn’t I take a sauna?

• Never take a sauna bath just finishing to work out. Give you a break, at least 15 minutes, then start the cooling cycle. If you obviate this step, it’s possible you decompensate because your body has been submitted to exhaustion so the heat can exhaust you more.
• Neither take a sauna bath just after eating. Wait about 4 hours. Don’t enter the sauna with the glocose-free body – eat something that increases slightly your sugar to avoid the decompensation due to the sweat.
• If you suffer from the heart or the kidneys, it’s better first to ask a medical doctor. The same if your skin suffer from irritation or if it suffers from infections by bacteria or virus, it’s preferrable that a medical doctor advise you if the sauna makes good or bad.
• When the sauna session ends, rehydrate with water or fruit juices. Never drink alcoholic beverages because if you already go out dehydrated, the alcohol will dehydrate you more.

 

In the end, temazcal, hammam, onsen. Which one is better? Actually, all work under the same principle, but the operation ways and the places where they are much spread are very different. But, in essence, all they get the same exact benefit.

 

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