How to Intensify the Benefits of a Sauna
It is a misconception that saunas are only for overweight people to burn out some fat and get a bit slim. There are numerous other benefits of going to sauna, if you perform the activity correctively. Spending some time in sauna greatly improves the blood circulation by raising the temperature of your entire body. This further causes intense sweating, opening up the skin pores for cleansing purposes and excreting toxins from the body. It doesn’t matter if you are not an overweight person, you can go to sauna regularly for a healthy living.
Instructions
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You better take a cool bath before going to sauna for gaining most of the benefits. Also, drink a couple of glasses of cool water. These measures will set your body temperature before entering the sauna.
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Adding aromatherapy scents in sauna will help you out to remove congestion, anxiety and allow you to breathe more relaxed. A number of choices are available for you, like lavender, eucalyptus, mint and peppermint, and you can choose any of these scents according to your comfort and likeness. You will have a better experience at sauna with these scents around you.
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Enter the sauna room and stay there until you start sweating. It will take no more than 5 to 10 minutes for your body to start sweating.
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Take deep breathes, inhaling and exhaling maximum air from your lungs. Add water to the hot rocks, which will be found in traditional saunas and not in the infrared or spa saunas.
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After about 15 minutes, you better step out of sauna room to cool down your body in air. It is better to jump into a cold pool or lake. Experts say that shocking your body with hot and cold in succession increases the effects of sauna detoxification and increase the blood circulation in your body.
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You need not to get your body chilled. When you start feeling cold, you better come back to the sauna room and stay there until you start sweating again. You have to repeat this heating and cooling of your body three to four times for best results. Just be sure not to exceed 45 minutes in total in the sauna room.
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When you are finished, cool yourself with fresh air, not cold water, to settle your body temperature. Take a cold bath afterwards to remove any dead skin cells.
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Drink lots of water and juices to wash toxins from your system and hydrate your body.
