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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Care your skin – 6 practical tips

We forget about it many times, but the ones of us who do bodybuilding or fitness  have the skin like our main work tool. Although the changes we experience because of the training begin since a very microscopical level, like the cellular (what stimulates the muscular growth), the fact is the effects are visible in our shape. How are we caring it?

 

If you think this is a females issue, we warn you’re wrong. . Maybe, the male skin is what requires most care because of the same modifications what it’s submitted to.

 

1. Learn it deeply – Oily, dry, or neutral? As incredible as it seems, many of us ignore what type of skin we have. The oily skin shines all the time, its pores are so expanded that they hold much ddirt, it uses to appear acne or shins, it has a rough texture. The dry skin has a soft texture but it’s too tense that it gets to crack, its appearance is opaque with almost invisible pores. Consider the ideal pH (acidity/alkalinity index) goes from 4.7 to 5.75. Are you in that range?  You should know it. A dermatologist can solve your doubts, so it’s time to appoint someone.
2. Eat healthy – although some trendy food or product appear each certain time, the true is that eating balanced is the better for your skin to keep healthy. However, there is natural food that optimizes it: carrot, potato, pumpkin, mango, peach, papaya, kiwi, bell pepper, red fruits, watercress, pomegranate fruit, olive oil, nuts, derry, eggs, and blue fishes. Do you realize?
3. Take a mindful bath – It seems an obvious suggestion but many of us think the personal cleanliness is only the act of keeping clean. Not exclusively. The bath time is perfect to relax and meet again yourself and  your physical assets. Add who wwork out,  sweat more than the average people, so we have to be more meticulous with that so-personal moment, especially if we talk about commissures (armpits, crotch, amid buttocks) or very hairy zones where the sweat can promote the bacteries to flourish. The bad smell? Precizely, the bacteries cause it. Use proper products according to your skin type or the conditions it can develop. Do you remember the dermatologist? He also can guide you.
4. ever moisturize it – Drinking water or consuming food rich in it is a practical and natural way  to guarantee elasticity to the skin as well as promoting its regeneration at ccellular level. The use of creams or products is a choice of external use, but the aloe vera natural gel have proven to be a much better choice, especially if you use to do mechanical or chemical hair removal.
5. Manage the stress – How are you dealing with your daily life? If your skin becomes red, starts to itch, appears hives or acne, they might be warning signals. As well as you train physically, train mentally to face the daily problems, one each time, understanding you’re bigger than them. Thus, you can accept they exist but also you can have them under control, and better if you can solve them. Meditating, talking to a true friend, granting you moments to do nothing, or to do some of your hobbies are going to help much, and your skin is going to thank you too.
6. Ever enjoy it – Never consider your skin like the clothes you wear but like a key feature of your identity. Find moments through the day to connect with it, feeling good with it. When you self-compensate, your own skin projects it. It’s not magic but pure biochemistry:  the hormones we naturally flow when we work out, they do that part of the job. Another way to stimulate them aside the physical training? Yes. Ever smile even when there’s no motivation. Good humor makes wonders.

 

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