Why runners are using a sauna after every run.

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Questions.

Up to 158°F, and the range starts at 77°F, so you can sit cooler on a day your legs have already had enough. It ships set to 149°F; holding TIME + and TIME − together for about six seconds unlocks the full range.

About fifteen minutes. Turn it on as you head out the door and it is ready when you get back.

No. A regular 110V household outlet at 1600W with an 8 foot cord. Give it its own outlet rather than a shared strip, and skip extension leads.

35 by 37 inches of floor and 63 inches tall, so it clears a standard doorway and sits in a corner. Measure the tightest turn on the way in, not the room. It arrives as two flat boxes, the larger 65 by 37 by 13 inches.

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Heat therapy supports recovery and supports sleep. It does not prevent or treat running injuries, and nothing here is medical advice. Speak to your physician before starting sauna use.

The runner's guide

Why runners are using a sauna after every run.

You train six days a week and recover zero.

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Fifteen minutes after the run

A household outlet

Every runner pictures the dramatic one.

The pop at mile nineteen. The walk back to the car. That is not what stops most runners.

Somewhere between forty and forty-five percent of runners get injured in any given year, and the most common one is not a tear. It is the knee, going quietly.

Runner's knee

16.7%

Shin splints

9.1%

Plantar fasciitis

7.9%

Achilles

6.6%

The knee is behind close to half of every overuse injury in the sport.

It does not happen on race day. It happens between runs.

Sources: Journal of Sport and Health Science, 2021. American Family Physician, 2018.

It's not an injury yet. That's the problem.

It is the Tuesday easy run that was not easy, because Sunday was still in your legs.

The tempo you bailed on after two miles. The long run you cut from sixteen to eleven. The week your knee felt tight on the stairs, so you ran through it.

Sunday long run16 miles

Tuesday easynot easy

Thursday tempobailed at 2

Logged as injurynone of it

None of that goes in your training log. By the time it has a name, it has been there for a month.

Four minutes of stretching. A foam roller in the corner.

You stretch your quads against a wall while your watch syncs. You bought the massage gun. You foam roll when something already hurts.

You sleep badly after the long run and go out again the next morning.

The run has a time in your week. Recovery gets whatever is left over.

The only randomised trial says it goes after the run.

People

Weeks

Min after

Three groups: exercise, exercise plus fifteen minutes of sauna straight afterwards, or nothing.

The group that added the sauna came out ahead on cardiorespiratory fitness and systolic blood pressure.

This is not instead of running. It is the fifteen minutes after.

Source: PMID 35785965. Heat supports recovery. It does not prevent injury or make you faster.

Three to four centimetres in.

A gym sauna heats the air around you. Full spectrum infrared goes past the skin, into the quads, the calves and the knee you just put forty minutes of load through.

Your heart rate climbs. Your blood vessels open. You sweat. That is the mechanism.

Heart rate rises

Into muscle and joint

83.5%

of 482 sauna users said they slept better afterwards.

That is a survey, not a trial. It is also where recovery actually happens.

Global Sauna Survey, 2019

Not in the sauna. In the eight hours after it.

Source: Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 2019, PMID 31126560. Self-reported. Heat supports sleep, it does not treat a sleep disorder.

The bonus

The hardest part of red light therapy is standing in front of it.

You're already sitting down.

The red light panel built into the back wall of the Solara

A panel costs three hundred to two thousand dollars on its own, and the protocol is standing still in front of it several times a week. A runner will not do that. You will sit down after a run.

It is in the back wall. Not an upsell, not an attachment, not a subscription.

Source: Vanin et al., Lasers in Medical Science, 2017. Supports recovery. It does not treat an injury.

Every run gets fifteen minutes.

It takes about fifteen minutes to warm up. Turn it on as you head out the door, and it is ready when you get back. Shower after, not before.

Sun

Long run

then sauna

Mon

Rest

Tue

Easy

then sauna

Wed

Rest

Thu

Intervals

then sauna

Fri

Rest

Sat

Easy

then sauna

For a runner that is just every run.

A runner sitting in the open door of the Solara after a run

A corner, or a closet.

About thirty minutes to put together. One person. No tools, nothing drilled, a regular household outlet.

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4.6 out of 5 · 155 reviews

From people who run.

★★★★★

It has a time slot now

Turn it on before I head out, sit in it when I get back. I have done more recovery in two months than in five years of owning a foam roller.

Marcus T.

★★★★☆

Sleep after the long run is the difference

Sunday nights used to be restless. They are not now. Four stars because I wish it warmed up faster on cold mornings.

Dev P.

★★★★★

Good, but measure your doorway

My legs feel better the day after intervals. Measure your doorway before it arrives, getting the boxes round the turn at the top of my stairs was a job.

Owen B.

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✓Medical grade 660nm to 850nm red light

Solara, two person

$4,499$5,500

Our best seller, redesigned to fit two people.

✓Full body 660nm to 850nm red light panel

Pulse PRO

$699$900

Portable infrared that folds into a closet.

✓660nm to 850nm red light built in

✓PFAS free, OEKO-TEX certified cover

✓Standard 110V outlet, no install

SmartSteam Pro

$299$349

Wet heat that packs into a bag between sessions.

✓Type: Steam

✓Folds into a carry bag

SmartSteam with Red Light

$399$500

The same steam tent with a red light panel inside it.

✓Type: Steam and red light

✓Red light panel inside the tent

✓Standard 110V outlet, folds away

Forge

$4,990$5,500

Our new traditional Finnish dry sauna.

✓Type: Dry

✓Heats up to 200°F

✓Powered by Harvia