008: How heat exposure improves recovery, health, and longevity

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Wolffpack Fitness

Adrian Wolff

20 episodes

4 days ago

In this podcast, researcher and fitness coach, Adrian Wolff, discusses science-backed strategies to help everyday people live their best life by providing applicable knowledge in the areas of fitness, nutrition, stress management, and psychology. His thorough explanations of complex topics make the content easy for anyone to understand and start to implement into their own lifestyle immediately after listening. He also offers tips, action items, and challenges at the end of each episode to help people start to transform their routines and habits related to health and fitness.

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008: How heat exposure improves recovery, health, and longevity

Wolffpack Fitness

33 minutes 47 seconds

6 months ago

008: How heat exposure improves recovery, health, and longevity

In this episode of the Wolffpack Fitness podcast, I discuss how heat exposure (typically from a traditional/Finnish or infrared sauna) stimulates specific processes within your body that have potent recovery, health, and longevity benefits. I begin with some detailed background information on how traditional saunas work to get your body temperature to increase and stimulate important physiological processes that improve your health and performance. I unpack each one of these processes, and help you understand what changes occur within your body that lead to faster recovery from workouts, reduced pain perception, improved mental health, and a robust cardiovascular system. Throughout the episode, I also touch on how often you should be getting into the sauna, and for how long, if you want your body to function at its best. I finish with a short discussion on infrared saunas, how they work differently from traditional saunas, and potential advantages over traditional saunas. As always, I end the episode with an action item for you to work on to optimize your lifestyle and live your best life.

Resources

Wolffpack Fitness free programs and guides: www.wolffpackfitness.com/free-programs

Wolffpack Fitness YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@wolffpackfitness

Instagram Profile: @coach_awolff

Löyly (steam) YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FWwEgam50g

Saturday Night Live "Washington’s Dream" video (unit conversions): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk

(Laukkanen 2018) Cardiovascular and other health benefits of sauna bathing: a review of the evidence: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025619618302751

(Ahokas 2023) A post-exercise infrared sauna session improves recovery of neuromuscular performance and muscle soreness after resistance exercise training: https://www.termedia.pl/A-post-exercise-infrared-sauna-session-improves-recovery-of-neuromuscular-performance-and-muscle-soreness-after-resistance-exercise-training,78,47765,0,1.html

(Patrick 2021) Sauna use as a lifestyle practice to extend healthspan: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0531556521002916