{"id":1221,"date":"2012-02-27T11:30:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T17:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backyardcitypools.wordpress.com\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2012-06-20T12:37:19","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T17:37:19","slug":"the-health-benefits-of-home-saunas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/the-health-benefits-of-home-saunas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Health Benefits of Home Saunas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Home Infrared Saunas\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Images\/BWP\/Sauna-4Person-SA1305-props-model-enter-large.jpg?w=580&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Home Infrared Sauna\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For years,\u00a0many people\u00a0have chosen to pay membership fees to gyms just so they can use the sauna and enjoy its many health benefits.\u00a0 Home sauna usage, however,\u00a0has been\u00a0increasing\u00a0more and more in recent years. \u00a0Home saunas have traditionally\u00a0been seen as a luxury that only the wealthy could afford. <a title=\"Infrared Saunas and Home Saunas\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Saunas-infrared.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Today&#8217;s home saunas<\/a>, though, are affordable, easy to assemble, require very little space, and offer the same health benefits as saunas found in public facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the\u00a0health benefits that can be attained by using a home\u00a0infrared sauna include the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Infrared saunas increase circulation in the body, which helps improve the body&#8217;s overall function.<\/li>\n<li>Infrared waves penetrate the body and provide soothing relief for aches and pains without causing any harmful effects to the skin.<\/li>\n<li>The soothing heat, which can reach up to 141 degrees, helps the body relax and allows stress and tension to melt away.<\/li>\n<li>Regular sessions in an infrared sauna can help relieve ailments such as asthma, nervous tension, arthritis, bronchitis, rheumatism, sports injuries, joint stiffness, depression, anxiety, acne, the common cold, migraine headaches, muscle pain, and influenza.<\/li>\n<li>Spending just 30 minutes in an infrared sauna can burn up to 600 calories, making it an effective component in any weight loss regimen.<\/li>\n<li>Time spent in a sauna helps improve the look, feel, and overall health of the skin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Besides health benefits, home saunas offer an additional benefit that no gym sauna can &#8212; privacy. Many people would agree that complete relaxation is hard to achieve when sharing sauna space with strangers. Whether you choose to use the sauna at home or at the gym, though, drinking plenty of water during and after a session in the sauna is essential for replacing fluids lost through perspiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years,\u00a0many people\u00a0have chosen to pay membership fees to gyms just so they can use the sauna and enjoy its many health benefits.\u00a0 Home sauna usage, however,\u00a0has been\u00a0increasing\u00a0more and more in recent years. \u00a0Home saunas have traditionally\u00a0been seen as a luxury that only the wealthy could afford. Today&#8217;s home saunas, though, are affordable, easy to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[109,126,285],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot-tubs-and-saunas","tag-home-saunas","tag-infrared-saunas","tag-saunas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2No25-jH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1447,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}