Note: This article refers to the persistent use of pre-built infrared sauna rooms, not sauna belts or portable saunas.

Unlike steam saunas, losing weight is a natural byproduct of using far infrared saunas. In fact, you can easily lose as much as 4-5 pounds in just one 30-minute session.

However, if it’s your first time to use the sauna, much of the weight you lose could be nothing more than water weight, which is something you easily gain back by drinking (a significant) amount of water – immediately.

However, REAL calories you burn during a sauna weight loss session will NOT be regained. And so it goes, if you want to try the sauna to lose weight, make sure that you get to the point where you are losing real calories instead of water weight.

The key to infrared sauna weight loss is regular use – you should use it at least three times a week (everyday if possible) for 30 minutes each time.

Using infrared heating technology goes deep into the body; and literally causes you to perspire and melt away fat.

In Guyton’s Textbook of Medical Physiology, it was found that one gram of sweat requires 0.568 kcal. The Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) states; “A moderately conditioned person can easily sweat off 500 grams in a sauna, consuming nearly 300 kcal, which is equivalent to running two to three miles. A heat-conditioned person can easily sweat off 600 ~ 800 kcal with no adverse effects.”

While the weight of the water loss can be regained by drinking water, the calories burned during a sauna weight loss session will not be regained by the intake of water. So both critics and fans of sauna weight loss are both right – they difference is in the type of weight they were talking about.

Since a far infrared sauna like a Luxspa Sauna helps generate two or three times the sweat produced in a hot-air or wet sauna, you can lose an impressive amount of calories.

It’s easy to make a comparison between a 30-minute session for sauna weight loss and certain types of exercises.

Two of the highest calorie-consuming exercises are rowing and marathon running. Peak output on a rowing machine or running during a marathon run burns about 600 calories in 30 minutes. A far infrared sauna can do the same in a 30-minute sauna weight loss session, and you burn 900 calories or more if you stay longer.

Said in another way, a single 30- to 60- minute session in a sauna weight loss session could consume energy equal to that in a 6 to 9 mile run .

Thus, a far infrared sauna can play a pivotal role in both weight control and cardiovascular conditioning. This would be very valuable for those who don’t exercise and those who can’t exercise yet want an effective weight control and fitness program.

So, when you combine the sauna with regular exercise, it delivers twice the weight loss benefits. Yet it can also relieve and eliminate the aches, pains and injuries associated with rigorous exercise regimes.

Here are how many calories a 150-pound person normally burns up in 30 minutes of exercise:

 

sauna weight lossSPORT CALORIES

* Rowing (peak effort)  - 600 calories

* Swimming (crawl stroke) – 300 calories

* Jogging – 300 calories

* Tennis (fast game) –  265 calories

* Chopping Wood – 265 calories

* Cycling (10mph) – 225 calories

* Golfing (without a cart) – 150 calories

* Walking (3.5mph) – 150 calories

* Bowling – 120 calories

* Vigorous Racquet Ball – 510 calories

* Marathon Running – 593 calories

In addition to weight loss,many weight loss authorities believe that our bodies store fat to use as a cleansing agent to dilute toxins that build up in the body. The use of far infrared sauna like Luxspa Sauna releases toxins naturally through increased blood flow and profuse sweating, and therefore the fat, now unnecessary for detoxification, and which is also eliminated in the sauna process, is released .

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