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The Benefits of Sauna or a Hot Tub Right After Your Training
Fitness | May 10, 2021
God gave us hot tubs, steam rooms and saunas for a reason. Heat stress has very similar effect on your body as medium to high intensity exercise.
When you exercise or expose your body to controlled heat stress, your body increases the expression of brain-derived neurothrophic factor (BDNF), which plays a big role in muscle repair and the growth of new muscle cells. BDNF also helps reduce anxiety and depression and is active in areas of the brain involved in learning, long term memory and executive functions.
Heat stress improves your athletic performance, your endurance and your ability to exercise when the core body temperature increases. In other words, if you feel like you’re dying during exercise because it’s too hot to breathe let alone move, then some regular controlled heat stress would be a great way to address that.
Heat stress is also great for maintaining and building muscles!!
It’s very useful if you’re going through a recovery from an injury or lazy days because it helps to prevent excessive protein degradation and muscle loss that occurs when you’re not exercising and using your muscles.
And if you use heat stress right after your workouts then you’ll be significantly increasing the benefits of your training and also the release of growth hormone which is well known as the youth hormone and some of the benefits include:
-increase exercise perfomance
-increased muscle mass
-improved bone density
-reduced body fat
– improved quality and appearance of your skin
If I had sauna, I would be using it more than the hot tub, because the benefits seem to be greater but it’s still a great way to put your body through some controlled heat stress and if you can do the training followed directly by heat stress daily, then you can really reap the benefits of your strength training and high intensity workouts andreverse the ageing process and decrease your biological age – chronological age won’t matter anymore.
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Private Member |
austin, texas
I always take a nice hot soak after a workout.. It also seems to help me stretch easier, so I stretch while in the hot water.. Am I crazy?
Private Member |
Zuzka, as a suggested topic can you share with us what you do in the sauna? Do you sometimes stretch, meditate? Any pointers? I just added wearing linen while in the sauna. Iām still using a public sauna šš . I love linen