Sauna
After your training you can of course make use of our sauna facilities, free of charge.
What happens to your body in the sauna?
In short: You give your body training, you freshen your fluid backup, you build up resistance, and you give your body and psyche rest and relaxation.
In the sauna our body has to ‘battle'
The high temperatures inside the sauna cabin result - already during the first couple of minutes - in your skin pores opening up and your sweat glands starting to function. Under the influence of heat a widening of vessels takes place inside our body. The increased blood circulation in the skin serves, just like sweating, as resistance against the temperature. We start to sweat in order to cool off our body by means of evaporation. The fluids that are necessary to sweat are directly extracted from our blood, as a result of which the blood pressure will lower even more. Fortunately we have sufficient "fluid depots" in our body and our organs can do without quite some fluids, so that this shortage can be supplemented.
You freshen your fluid backup
An experienced sauna bather in general ‘loses' around half to one-and-a-half litres of fluid per visit to the sauna. With the perspiration fluid not only fluid (= water) is extracted from our body however, but also lactic acids that have remained behind in the tissue after high physical exertion. In this way the body is in a way "rinsed clean" by the components of the perspiration fluid supplied from the inside. The regular cleansing of metabolism residue as well as of substances that were left behind after periods of illness is one of the most important ‘depth effects' of sauna-bathing.
You build up resistance
When you regularly visit the sauna your body is toughened up and outside the sauna you will have less chances of getting a cold than non-sauna visitors. In the sauna cabin you acquire so much heat that you will experience walking out and taking a cold shower afterwards as pleasant. The repeated dilation, narrowing and subsequent dilation of the blood vessels in the skin ensure proper training of the body. In this way people who visit the sauna and the sauna procedure regularly put on a natural summer/winter coat and they will experience becoming less and less sensitive to temperature differences, also in daily life. During a real influenza epidemic the sauna has already proven its value as a means of resistance. This was established scientifically by various research tests, and in practice it is still proven again and again by the large number of sauna-bathers that are not affected by the influenza virus during a general infection period.
