Saunas good or bad?? - Page 2 - UK-Muscle Body Building Community

DB · 07-01-2005, 10:16 AM

plenty of pics winger some nice birds in there occasionally but u wanna back order this time last year as they used to do bikini/naked built women in there every month

crazycacti · 08-01-2005, 01:04 PM

MD is hard to get hold of here since its a US mag, but imo is tons better than flex - i love the 'priest confessional' - since i think lee priest is one of the only top pros that speaks his mind (him and craig titus)

Found the article - wasn't too interesting after a second look but i'll post any way (sorry about it being a little late :o no comp in my student house atm) -

Sauna decreases performance in Women, not Men (MD, Aug 2004) -

'Larger people have an advantage over smaller onews in bb and power sports. BB comps are usually seperated into several weight catagories that include bantamweight, lightweight, middleweight, light-heavyweight, heavyweight and often super heavyweight for men and light, middle and heavyweight for women. Sports such as weightlifting, wrestling, judo and boxing use similar weight classes. Athletes competing in weight class sports often dehydrate to lose weight using a sauna or steam room.
Spanish researchers found that men lost nearly 2 litres of water and women 3 litres after one hour in a sauna (3x20 mins in 158-degrees F sauna, 5 mins rest between). Neither men nor women could restore resting body water lvls after 1 hr of drinking a standard sports drink. Following the attempt at rehydration, jumping performance decreased in women, but not in men. Decreases in performance were proportional to water losses.
This study showed that dehydration affected performance more in women than in men and that its difficult to restore body water after becoming dehydrated in a sauna.' (Int J Sports Med, 24:518-522, 2003)

Personally thought the last bit of the conclusion was a bit obvious!

ShreddedSteve · 08-01-2005, 01:53 PM

yeah i agree, MD is one of, if not the best Bodybuilding mags. it has tons of ads yes but thats only cos every issue has roughly 400pages of beef

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and it doesn't bull**** about steriods like FLEX does.

yeah i only know one shop which sells MD. and it only gets like 2 copies of it every month LOL luckily nobody at uni is in to bodybiulding so i can get MD every month no problem.

View Poll Results: Do you use the Sauna at your gym?
Yes I am not happy till I am par boiled!	3	23.08%
No. Because Diary Barry hangs out there and he is...weird!	1	7.69%
Don't have access to a sauna but would like to.	5	38.46%
Don't have access to a sauna and I am not fussed anyway	4	30.77%
Voters: 13. You may not vote on this poll

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08-01-2005, 01:04 PM	#17 (permalink)
crazycacti Fat and bulking... Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Isle of Man/Newcastle Posts: 1,417	MD is hard to get hold of here since its a US mag, but imo is tons better than flex - i love the 'priest confessional' - since i think lee priest is one of the only top pros that speaks his mind (him and craig titus) Found the article - wasn't too interesting after a second look but i'll post any way (sorry about it being a little late :o no comp in my student house atm) - Sauna decreases performance in Women, not Men (MD, Aug 2004) - 'Larger people have an advantage over smaller onews in bb and power sports. BB comps are usually seperated into several weight catagories that include bantamweight, lightweight, middleweight, light-heavyweight, heavyweight and often super heavyweight for men and light, middle and heavyweight for women. Sports such as weightlifting, wrestling, judo and boxing use similar weight classes. Athletes competing in weight class sports often dehydrate to lose weight using a sauna or steam room. Spanish researchers found that men lost nearly 2 litres of water and women 3 litres after one hour in a sauna (3x20 mins in 158-degrees F sauna, 5 mins rest between). Neither men nor women could restore resting body water lvls after 1 hr of drinking a standard sports drink. Following the attempt at rehydration, jumping performance decreased in women, but not in men. Decreases in performance were proportional to water losses. This study showed that dehydration affected performance more in women than in men and that its difficult to restore body water after becoming dehydrated in a sauna.' (Int J Sports Med, 24:518-522, 2003) Personally thought the last bit of the conclusion was a bit obvious! Last edited by crazycacti; 08-01-2005 at 02:08 PM.

08-01-2005, 01:53 PM	#18 (permalink)
ShreddedSteve Newbie Trainer Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: London/Southampton Posts: 5	yeah i agree, MD is one of, if not *the* best Bodybuilding mags. it has tons of ads yes but thats only cos every issue has roughly 400pages of beef . and it doesn't bull**** about steriods like FLEX does. yeah i only know one shop which sells MD. and it only gets like 2 copies of it every month LOL luckily nobody at uni is in to bodybiulding so i can get MD every month no problem.