What is Muscle Recovery
Recover Faster. Perform better!
No one wants muscle soreness to slow them down. Whether you are a busy mom, a competitive athlete, a weekend golfer or simply trying to keep up with your kiddos, proper muscle recovery impacts your ability to keep doing what you love. Infrared therapy penetrates muscles deeper, increases blood flow and helps the body recover faster so that you can stay in the game of life!
Beyond building muscle, the right recovery is important
While trying to enhance performance or the building of muscle, the recover process, where energy is restored and the body is able to heal tissue damage and rebuild muscles, is vital. Building muscle not only increases strength but boosts metabolism, reduced risk of injury, improves bone density and helps with excess body fat.
Infrared light benefits muscle recovery and performance
Infrared light heats the body from within and penetrated the joints, muscles and tissues, increasing circulation and blood flow.
Good circulation is critical for proper healing. Red blood cells carry oxygen and nutrients to the site of the strain or inflammation, which helps to create new blood vessels and tissues at the site. The more red and white blood cells that can get delivered to muscles, the quicker they rebuild. Infrared heaters have been found to be 99% effective in terms of far infrared absorption into the body and our sauna is the only sauna with all three wavelengths in the optimal range in one heater.
Far infrared accelerates recovery
The Journal of Athletic Enhancement published a study of 10 national-level power athletes that found far infrared improves neuromuscular performance during intensive training associated with increased testosterone/cortisol ratio. “Improved recovery can enable harder training and accelerate further athletic development.
Near infrared helps build muscles, decrease inflammation
One of the foremost researchers on infrared, Dr. Michael Hamblin, published a study which suggests that red light and new infrared (NIR) can increase muscle mass gained after training and decrease inflammation along with oxidative stress.
Infrared increases flexibility
Flexibility is also important for performance and injury prevention. A study conducted at Auburn University of Montgomery showed that a sauna can increase your flexibility up to 3X. Benefits of increased range of motion include joint mobility, less friction in the joints, enabling of joint function to diminish stiffness and joint relaxation.