The Finnish sauna – advantage and harm

The main difference of the Finnish sauna is that all procedures are made by means of dry steam here. Air temperature is not less than 90 degrees, humidity – no more than 25%. In some types of saunas temperature is lifted to 110-130 degrees, at the same time the humidity of air is only 10-15%.

Advantage and harm of the Finnish sauna

Visit of the Finnish sauna promotes a fast conclusion of slags and toxins. Rest reduces here stress, tension including psychological. This fine prophylactic for cold. Besides, because of hot air more frequent breaths are taken, than the Finnish sauna is useful to a respiratory system. The more we do breaths, the we inhale more air, and it raises a tone of vessels of a respiratory system.

For athletes the advantage of the Finnish sauna is simply indisputable. During the trainings in an organism lactic acid because of which the body strains is produced, aches, there is a feeling of physical fatigue. Visit of the Finnish sauna after gym promotes a conclusion of this acid, the body is loaded with energy, the feeling of fatigue leaves, being replaced by cheerfulness and a positive. In order that visit of the Finnish sauna yielded only positive result, you should not go to a sauna with a hungry stomach, but also to overeat not harmfully. If you decided to take a steam bath well hot dry steam, it is not necessary to take alcohol.

It is better to forget about a sauna for a while if you have a high temperature, any inflammatory process in an aggravation stage, fever or heart troubles.

There are several rules as it is correct to take a steam bath in the Finnish sauna:

1. Before the first calling a steam room take a shower and be well wiped by a towel, the body has to be dry.
2. In the Finnish sauna all regiments and plank beds wooden. They well get warm at high temperature and therefore before laying down, lay a towel.
3. If desired, you can increase humidity – just water stones.
4. The first calling a steam room has to be short, no more than 10 minutes.
5. Since the second, and it is better than the third, calling, it is possible to use a broom. The number of calling depends only on you.
6. Do not forget to drink liquid, herbal teas are very good in this case.
7. It is worth putting on after took a shower and completely cooled down.

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