Can Whole Body Cryotherapy Help Athletes Achieve Faster Recovery After Extreme Workouts?

How can standing in a full body CyroTherapy sauna by freezing my butt for 3 minutes help me improve my recovery time after competition or extreme workouts?

Ha ha ha, well we want to thank our future client and local semi-pro athlete for asking this question and well, also for putting it so bluntly. Suffice it to say that his butt will still be there after a 3 minute session. And, if he has a ‘pain in the butt’, it will probably go away after he gets out of the whole body cryotherapy sauna. Here’s why.

After maximal athletic exertion, whether it’s a marathon, a 50K trail run, a century of cycling (100 miles), a triathlon, or a week-of-hell soccer workout, the muscles in your body are sore from microtears . Your body sends help in the form of nutrients (amino acids and muscle-building molecules) and pro-inflammatory support. Your body’s anti-inflammatory mechanism can’t keep up and it will take a while to heal.

Unfortunately, if you’re too sore to move, the chances of continuing to enhance your new athletic level of performance with another workout are untenable. Also, most of the healing takes place in the first hour after maximal effort (which is why protein drinks are recommended directly after a workout) and then within 24-48 hours. You can’t just sit on your “toushy buns” (butt) for an entire week so you don’t lose everything you’ve gained. It is best to go to the cryotherapy sauna, relieve the pain so that you can do it again with strength. Don’t be chicken, it’s only 3 minutes.

And keep in mind that you don’t have to be an elite athlete to enjoy the benefits of shorter recovery times. Anyone who pushes their limits feels the same pain and therefore incurs the same challenges. In fact, the only way to get to the next level of your fitness requires consistency and a little pain. Using a CryoTherpay sauna helps you reduce that pain, so you get “more pain for less gain” just saying

Is there any proof that full body cryotherapy helps shorten recovery time from workouts and workouts?

Well, we always like to say, come see for yourself, but if you want empirical evidence and want to know if there are such research studies available, there are plenty of them. We all know that a 30-minute ice bath helps marathon runners, soccer players, boxers, cyclists, and track stars recover faster, and we know that a 3-minute cryotherapy session does essentially the same thing in a way different, and the cost is about the same at the time you buy ice packs to chill the temperature low enough in a tub to really help you.

Okay, but how does this really work?

CryoTherapy lowers creatine kinase levels well below passive recovery, helping to repair the muscle fiber and therefore increasing recovery with just one session. The studies also showed a decrease in inflammatory cytokines while showing an increase in anti-inflammatory cytokines compared to those who simply did poorly. These studies were done by measuring markers of inflammation that flood the system.

Going in and enjoying a CryoTherapy Saund within 24-48 hours of an extreme athletic activity, one where your muscles are sore from micro tears and damage, to relieve pain, speed recovery and allow you to get back and do it. again. The ability to knockdown and stack by repeating the cycle faster than you could with just a passive recovery means you get stronger, faster, and better at everything you do.