How do I burn calories and get a cardiovascular workout by sitting in an infrared sauna?
When our body heats up, the heart pumps blood faster around the body and to the extremities of the body. Muscles worked during exercise produce heat, and the body needs to compensate. The best defence the body has to overheating is sweating because sweat evaporates from the skin taking the heat with it. Our body expends energy to produce sweat – 1g of sweat requires 0.586 kcal. A moderately conditioned person can easily sweat off up to 1000 gms or more in a single sauna session the equivalent in sweat to run 10 -15 kms. So, by sitting in the Canadian Spa Sauna your body will start to sweat, raise the heart rate and dilate the capillaries and other parts of the cardiovascular system – offering many of the same cardiovascular benefits as from running or rowing.
