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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“I feel uncomfortable when they look straight at it”

What you can do  when these better-developed body parts of yours seem to catch everybody’s attention.

 

Percy, 41, Works by turns at the reception of a public building. The suit fits him OK, as much as a guy asked him if he works out – Percy answers “yes, I do,” but, as he judges, he also have noticed many people, no matter the sex, look straight at his ass.

 

“The suit is made of a thin cloth,” he tells, “then, when I stand up, I feel the people look straight at my buttocks.” It’s when a confusing sensation fills him up: In one hand, it feels good when the people look straight at you, but sometimes you feel the looks want to get you naked.”

 

Among his chances, Percy has considered to diminish his muscle mass by doing exercise.  That means doing more cardio than power, or more aerobic than anaerobic if we say it otherwise. That could be an option, but is it the right one?

 

If having much muscle mass is a risk for your physical health, you should consider it, indeed. But if the reason is not at the physical frame, what can you do? Here some practical tips:

 

1. Don’t forget what motivated you – The first one you must remember is the reason why you entered training. Do you feel the same conviction than the first day?  Has it increased or decreased? If that excitement keeps strong, or if it has raised, it would be worthy you remind that to yourself everyday you wake up. But, if it had diminished, talk with your trainer alone for reviewing wwwhat is happening, defining what to do up forward.
2. Use your body language smart – Assume the people is going to see as they have eyes and you can’t do anything to stop them. Even, they can opine about, you can’t do anything to forbid it to them unless it turns stalking. However, if you detect somebody looks straight at that better-developed body part of yours, don’t act aggressively. Look at the eye, address a friendly smile like if were a greeting. The folk will realize you realized, so he or she will prefer to see aside.
3. Feel proud of all what you worked out – For what nobody ashame you with your body, begin not to feel ashamed of your body by yourself. Take atime alone for watching it, thinking these shapes catching the attention are the result of your own effort (and your genetics, maybe), so assume them like achievements or competitive assets. When you appreciate your body in a positive way, you can go much confident, much attitude, and the people will notice that immediately. They Will continue looking at you but you won’t feel overwhelmed about the way they look at you, actually.
4. Don’t do it if it’s by shame – Buying baggy clothes is an option only if it gives comfort to your body. But if you do it for eluding the problem, it’s going to increase the regret because, although you cover that highlighting part well, you’ll ever have the idea they follow seeing it anyway.
5. Switch your posse – Start to make friends who appreciate by your talent beyond your body shape, or that highlighting, umcomfortable body part, or who appreciate you like a full set, who help you to turn the uncomfortable into something natural. Of course, that will demand these friends have a wide-open mind, not telling about the psychological maturity. But consider if you relate with people who is ever repeating you the same, and  in the same tune, you’ll believe in the short-term or the long-term it’s the only way to see the world – your body too. A winner is characterized by keeping the comfort zones off.

 

Are those tips helpful to you? Do you have other queries? Write us on our Twitter account or at chulucanasgym@gmail.com

  

Legs in shape because of the marinera

Mask for the muscle

How good  is this accesory for you to increase flesh and stamina?

By ChulucanasGym

There is a serious disadvantage between who trains sea level and who does it upper altitude, we mean 1000 meters or 3280 feet to up. Perhaps as high as you go, the air becomes rarer and your need to consume more oxygen to do any effort increases. That is, in essence, the reason why the lowland people feel like the air lacks when they are higher.

However, a Darth Vader-style accesory  (before his face got horrible) could create the sensation of rared air at low altitude, demand your lungs for inhaling it much more, and your stamina during your workout session increases that way. 

"I used to go training before at the gym and play soccer, but since I started to study at La Unión Police Academy, I don't have such many time because my instruction and my first field assignments are my priority," one of ChulucanasGym Team founder Pedro Changanaquí, 25, tells.

Nevertheless once upon a day, he found a mask made of rubber and corespum, which he did all his cardiovascular workouts.

How does it work?
It is supposed the mask induces hypoxia - a low oxygen level, trying to simulate at low altitude the same effect that training above 2500 meters or 8202 feet had. 

If we take Chulucanas ass a basis (90 meters or 295 feet altitude), a sportsman could travel 2,5 hours until Chalaco (2200 meters or 7217 feet altitude), where he could work out.  But does it result profittable to do the trail everyday for having 1-to-3-hour training sessions? 

For the majority, this is maybe impossible, so the mask would replace straight the need to travel, reenacting at 90 meters altitude the same sensation it could have training  at 2200 meters or more (the average maximum altitude of Morropón Province is 3000 meters or  9842 feet). 

It is probable where you live the accesibility to high altitudes is so easy like this, or more difficult, or it's probable you already live in altitude and just above 2000 meters. 

Controversial results
But do you really acquire more stamina when working out  high altitude? The theory says yes because if you get more oxygen then you can endurance more, but the achievement is reported in the breathing muscle instead. 

Apparently, medical tests reveal indexes in blood and the used energy amount compared to who train low altitudes are not remarkable. In fact, one of our producers does power-&-stamina conventional mixed daily workout for 30-45 minutes in functional mode, at 60 meters or 196 feet altitude. When he had to work at 1400 meters or 4593 feet and even above 2700 meters or 8858 feet, climbbing up a montain  with 50% inclination, he did not experienced the air lack associated to disaclimatization.

In the same way, clinic tests applied  until the last year to persons using the mask neither revealed more development than breathing muscle level, but a light increase in anaerobic capability (power) indeed,  what is consistent to muscular increase that Pedro says he experienced.  However, specialists say the tests are not conclusive.

So does it mean it doesn not work? It doesn't mean so exactly, but it cannot be affirmed or denied yet that  because it is necessary to have more independent proof. Despite, if in your particular case  you notice there are benefits, and any clinic risk is discarded, it could -could!- continue working out with the mask.  Remember that what works for anyone not necessarily works to you and viceversa. Regarding Pedro, and until we do not prove the opposite, it seemed to work him.

Pedro thinks his aerobic performance might increase 25-30% compared to the time he worked out maskedless, although it is necessary to verify details as the continued and suspended training time, so his ability for muscular response before any type of effort. In other words, it will be necessary running some tests on him.

Let's remember he also did prior gym training and played sports, so muscular memory is on his favor. That means his body is able to get muscular fastly or develop stamina under the minimum workout.

However, share us your experience here, using or not the mask.