A Soothing Visit.

What is a Sauna? What is a Steam Room? If you are always in the gym or a spa, you know these better than most people. Both serve as stress relievers and releases tensions in the body when visited for about fifteen to twenty minutes. They say if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen. Well, if you can't stand the stress, this time enter the heat. Saunas and Steam Rooms are both great when you have had an awful week or just an overhaul of work in family duties or at your job. Both serve as a remedy to stress, skin rejuvenation, and better sleep. These two rooms are an easy solution to all that bad mojos and bad vibes you get from the office in expansion, to say, at the least.

First, What is the difference?

Sauna's actually carry more heat. They typically are set from 160 to 200 degrees Fahrenheit. Steam Rooms are 110 to 120 degrees, with 100 percent humidity in the air. Saunas are set with 5 to 30 percent humidity only. Basically, the difference is one is a semi-dry heated room, while the other has humidity turned on, in top notch.

Which is better?

It is a matter of opinion to say which is better, but from experience, because of the higher tension of heat in a Sauna, I would say it is much more soothing and relaxing, compared to a wet room like a steam. Both, however give great benefits. In a Sauna, however, the sweat is more effective, because it is more hot. It works up your body heat much more. However, if you can't stand the heat, you may try the steam instead.

What are the affects? Benefits?

Always staying inside a Steam Room or Sauna can help with the skin a great deal. Because the humidity level is so high, your skin responds well to opening of pores. Staying in each room for ten to fifteen minutes is great for opening up the pores, especially after a workout. If you find a steam room at your gym, using it after a workout is a beneficial idea. After sweating so much at the gym and revving up your blood flow, once you enter a steam or sauna, your muscles are relaxed, relieving the tensions all over, even in the neck. It slowly paces down your blood pressure at a good rate, because of the high heat and humid circulations, rather than ending a workout all together without a good post-workout cool down. The muscles have no choice but to slowly surrender to the heat. Your heart rate is also slowly lowered at a rate that is good for your post-workout. The heat and humidity in the room challenges your body to go in defensive mode of trying to keep a good core temperature, which keeps your heart rate going even after a workout.

A good practice you can do is to place a facial mask on or some cucumbers, during or after the sauna or steam, or even before, and then use the sauna or steam to prepare your skin to apply on a very effective, or that favorite moisturizer, skin remedy you really love, after.

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Many people believe, that just because you are sweating in a Steam or Sauna, you burn calories and lose weight. The fact is you do burn calories, but it is very little. Because of the high temperature, your body works to keep itself up to manage it's core temperature at a safer zone, the calories it burns from this, is very little. The sweat you burn in a Sauna or Steam is just water weight, and you will gain all this loss of water back after walking out those doors. Any weight you see lost on the scale post a Steam Room or Sauna, is only because of the loss of water in the body.

A heads up and warning? If you are going in a Steam or Sauna, always wear a towel to protect your private area when sitting down. Avoid touching the corners of the rooms, as bacteria prone to heat like to grow in these places. If you want a much hotter area in the room, sit at the top, because heated air tends to rise. Do not stay in either room for longer than 20 minutes, as this causes dizziness or may lead you to a faint from the exhaustion of the heat and humid air. If you are taking any prescriptions or are pregnant, ask a physician before use. If you have just finished drinking any toxicated beverages, do not enter a steam or sauna, as well.

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