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Best sauna time with minimal opportunity cost

March 21, 2013 By Glenn 1 Comment

Let’s face it.  We’re all trying to do more things.  There’s an opportunity cost to everything we do.  Golf is in the tank:  ”it takes too long.”  Poker Club?  ”Can’t make it this month.”

Sauna time takes priority and gets fit in where it can.  Some folks like a morning sauna, perhaps after their work out.  Others enjoy the centuries old tradition of a Saturday evening sauna, where time passes slowly, unwinding and stretching out during multiple sauna rounds with family and friends.  Still, others have found an incredibly satisfying vibe with the Friday Happy Hour Sauna.   And nothing wrong with a sauna and nap as a prep for a night on the town.

However, an 8 pm weeknight sauna session may just be the most ideal time:

  • young kids are tucked quietly in bed.
  • spouse is settled in on the couch sipping warm tea and immersed in her book.
  • family dinner is far enough in the rear view mirror.
  • a 2 or 2 1/2 hour sauna session can roll along peacefully, unrushed, then
  • one can slip under the covers and in bed by 10:30.  A smile knowing that 7 or 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep is upon us.

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A great sauna routine for an even better night’s sleep

November 17, 2012 By Glenn Leave a Comment

I’ve had a dialogue with someone who was put on steroids for a couple of weeks for a medical condition.

Here’s an excerpt:

“Any side effects?” I ask the doctor.  “Take them in the morning, you may be a bit jittery and sleepless at night.”  Boy was he not kidding!  It was awful!! , yet luckily, after a little trial and error:

 

  • Days I didn’t exercise – I slept terrible.
  • Days I just exercised – I was pretty restless, not a good night’s sleep.
  • Days I exercised and sauna – I slept great.

Glenn’s sleep well sauna routine:

  • 4-5 pm: exercise. (rigorous outdoor running, biking, chopin’ wood, carrying water).
  • 5-7 pm: sauna.  Three rounds, clean rinse and allow for generous time for cool down between rounds.
  • 7-8 pm: dinner. Click here for four great recipe’s for post sauna satisfaction.
  • 8-10 pm: relax. If you can make it ’til 10, you may need some help getting shoveled into bed.

Additional hints:

  • Limit booze intake. The three beer sauna is sure enjoyable, yet if the focus is getting a good night sleep, tone it down.
  • Plenty of water. But cut that out after 8 pm.  Maybe a cup of sleepy time tea, but let all the fluids get through your body a couple hours before you go to bed.
  • Nothing over stimulating before bed. Scrabble game, yes.  Silence of the Lambs, no.

Sauna works excellent for sleeping disorders, showing repeated proven results.  Sauna is healthy and natural, and seems to do a wonderful job counteracting mental, emotional, AND physical issues that prohibit one to sleep well.  In the example of the reader taking steroids, exercise alone didn’t help much.  The sauna routine most likely helped “push” the drugs through his system, allowing the drugs to do what they were prescribed to do, and then getting washed out of the body.   Sweat rids toxins and chemicals in the body, oh, and he reported that he got better before the two week steroid prescription period.

How much is a good night’s sleep worth to you?

 

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Sauna, then nap: a perfect way to prep for a night out

April 28, 2012 By Glenn Leave a Comment

A rainy afternoon.  2.5 hour sauna session.  1.0 hour nap.  Wake up.  Get dressed.  Feel excellent and recharged for a social evening.

Sauna is a great way to tee up for a nap:

  • Muscles relaxed.
  • Mind cleared.
  • Body in equilibrium.

We sauna enthusiasts enjoy the authentic sauna experience at varied times:

 

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Sauna is a great help for sleeping disorders

September 8, 2011 By Glenn Leave a Comment

After three rounds of an authentic sauna session, ones body is relaxed – both muscles and mind.  This relaxation is a direct result from the exertion of a good sweat.  The experience may be compounded by exercise before a sauna session.  However, this not necessary.

Do you have trouble sleeping?  I urge you to try an authentic sauna.  Not an infrared, or a steam room, but three decent rounds in an authentic Finnish sauna, allowing adequate time between rounds to chill out and relax.

As Richard Ashcroft of The Verve poignantly announces: “the drugs don’t work.”  Taking sleeping pills are not the answer to sleeping all night.  A sauna session is a natural process.  Whether it’s body stress or mind stress, three decent sauna rounds will greatly enhance the necessary state of relaxation, critical to sleeping all night.

Life is short, we all deserve to have a good night’s sleep.  Sauna is a great help for sleeping disorders.

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