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BigUglyIconSaunas14-12-2014 @ 15:27 
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Hi folks,

Been a avid visitor for a while now, so thought I'd ask the experts.

I train 3 times a week, and deadlift on a Friday. After I go for a sauna to chill out and ease off a bit.

Recently, a guy at work told me that he's heard that having a sauna/steam room after a workout is detrimental to the session you've just done. Something to do with breaking down the muscle fibres?

Just wondering if anyone else has heard this as its a new one on me.



Cheers for your input guys.
WiegieboardIcon...14-12-2014 @ 15:40 
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Post Edited: 14.12.2014 @ 15:41 PM by Wiegieboard
Contrast bathing speeds up recovery time. Going from really hot to really cold (plunge bucket) will only do you good.

If it helps you de stress and relax, this will also be good for you.
JackRevansIcon...14-12-2014 @ 15:55 
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I have taken to warming up in the sauna. Feelsgoodmane.

Just be careful of the ones in Thailand
AdamTIcon...14-12-2014 @ 15:57 
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jwpIcon...14-12-2014 @ 19:11 
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Post Edited: 14.12.2014 @ 19:18 PM by jwp
I think the gist is that because hard exertion (high force or power especially) create an acute inflammatory response in the 'damaged' tissues, ice helps minimise the hystamine induced swelling (by constricting the blood vessels, preventing the passage of erythrocytes into the interstitional fluids) so helps speed recovery/prevent unecessary movement limitations while the injured tissues are healing (the swelling gradually reduces, allowing for gradual return to movement) until a point somewhere 24-72hrs after the acute response began when heat would actually help promote recovery by increasing vasodilation and speeding the nutrient delivery/waste removal processes in recovery. Or something to that effect, it's been a while since I read up on it.

In reality, unless you are an elite athlete on a very tight training/competing schedule, it won't really matter that much - like a guy warming his tyres with f1 blankets before his sunday jolly in his mgb - technically useful but effectively useless. More important, if you aren't properly injured then just do whatever makes you feel nice and ready for the rest of your day/job/family, whatever you do after lifting.


Edit: also, the majority of enzymes in your body (metabolism, anabolic/catabolic etc blah basically what makes your s**t work properly) become more effective as they warm due to heat/energy and all that, up to a point slightly warmer than 38 degrees (or thereabouts, somewhere slightly over ideal internal core body temp) where they begin to degrade and don't do f**k all - which is really dangerous, hence hyperthermia being really deadly just a few degrees over 37 (i think coma and death are 39 and 40, whereas you can go much colder and not edge death so easily, or so I recall). Maybe random work fella means something like that; or maybe he's just parroting some s**t he overheard at the local running club?
BigUglyIcon...14-12-2014 @ 19:55 
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Great bit of info, really appreciate it!
dannyboy73Icon...14-12-2014 @ 21:04 
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Dont like em sir, too hot and sweaty,

how that can be enjoyable Ive no ideaUnhappy
little_aIcon...14-12-2014 @ 21:50 
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BigUgly said:
Recently, a guy at work told me that he's heard that having a sauna/steam room after a workout is detrimental to the session you've just done.


Tell the guy at work that having a sauna after a workout can't be detrimental to the workout you've just had as you've just had it. It's over.

Lets face it, it's the middle of winter and it's cold. A sauna is great for cheering us up. Quite often the saunas I use are frequented by young eastern European ladies. I don't feel this has any detriment to me or my workouts.
The_LechamotiveIcon...16-12-2014 @ 14:46 
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Post Edited: 16.12.2014 @ 14:46 PM by The_Lechamotive
I prefer the steam room to a sauna

Hot & wet &rt; dry & crusty

all day erri day.
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