Originally Posted by
MoAlpha
To get the full effect, you need to follow the heat with ice water immersion, right? It would send me into V-fib arrest, but you hard guys should do it. The Finns I've sauna'd with drank beer in there.
Pre pandemic, I belonged to a gym that had a sauna and next to the gym was a cryotherapy lab. I did the cryotherapy for about a year with the idea of getting better recovery. The protocol was 3 minutes in the tank with nitrogen at minus 200 degrees F. A number of pro athletes were using this technique at the time - LeBron James and the AG2R pro cycling team to name a couple. It seemed to stop inflammation and felt great after if was over. However, inflammation is needed to get stronger so therapy like most other strategies have to be used when appropriate. I tried going right from the sauna to the cold tank. it was okay but I did not see any difference per se.
I worked for a Finnish company and was in Helsinki a lot. The Finns are capable of many interesting things and sauna behaviors are unique.