Archive for August, 2009
As any wrestler or boxer would freely admit, some sports require serious weight loss to occur in a short period of time. In order to make weight, fighters turn to a number of pound-shedding techniques – not all of them healthy. Sometimes these entail unadvisable dietary choices such as going without food for days at a time. Healthier alternatives do exist, of course, and these include spending a good part of the day in a sauna.
Vinyl sauna suits are designed to help the wearer burn more fuel and subsequently drop some weight. This weight loss has little to do with sweating, which is merely the loss of crucial hydration. When spending lots of time in the sauna, you should keep your body hydrated with plenty of fluids. It’s the food and the fat that were required to generate the sweat that are actually being burned.