If you are an athlete, you know how important it is to stay fit and fine to win the games. You can follow a strict diet and work out daily to keep healthy. However, you can also try many other ways to boost and maintain a fit body. Using a hot tub is one of such fitness tricks that you may not know. A hot tub always helps you to relax. It has different jets that can give a soothing massage to your most stressed body parts and benefit you in other ways.
Here are the ways hot tubs can benefit athletes:
1. Boost Athletic Performance
You can train yourself and have a good time in a hot tub. Better circulation, warming up muscles, and exercising them can always help you to perform better as an athlete. When you have warm and loose muscles before springing into action, you can act quickly and smoothly as an athlete.
2. Treat Injuries
Do you want to treat your existing body injuries? Hot tub hydrotherapy can help. Old wounds, such as torn ligaments and tight shoulders caused due to injuries can come back and hurt you during your training. Your chronic lower back pain can reduce significantly after you use a hot tub for hydrotherapy daily.
Here are some of the injuries that hydrotherapy can treat:
- Ankle injuries
- Knee injuries
- Hip injuries
- Shoulder injuries
- Back pain
- Lumbar pain
- Joint replacement
- Osteoarthritis
- Whiplash
- Sciatica
- Sprains
- Remobilization after a cast removal
- Coordination and balance issues
- Fatigue
- MS and Parkinson’s disease
3. Combat the Risk of Injuries
When you repeatedly perform hot tub hydrotherapy as a warmup, it vastly reduces the risk of injuries. Colder temperatures can lead to brittleness in muscles and tendons, whereas warm muscles and tendons are much more pliable and ready for use. Hot tub hydrotherapy and warming up muscles, mainly all the small muscles in fragile joints such as knees and shoulders, help you live longer.
4. Cure Insomnia
Staying awake all night after working hard throughout the day can be hard for any human, as well as any athlete. Is it tough to shut your body down repeatedly when bedtime rolls around? If yes, start soaking yourself in a hot tub an hour before you sleep every night. The soaking helps you fall asleep quickly after lying on the bed. As your body relaxes and winds down, you can sleep well.
Some Hot Tub Exercises to Try
Exercising in a hot tub increases your muscle flexibility and burns calories. Here are some of the hot tub exercises you can try:
Thigh and Glute Exercise
Stand and put your feet shoulder-width apart. Bring arms in your front and squat down in a sitting position. Stand on one leg and hold onto the side of the hot tub for support.
Shoulder Exercise
Sink the body in the water up to the neck. Extend your arms in front of you and put your palms down. Cross your arms over your chest one at a time, and move them back to the starting position. Repeat.
Ab Exercise
Sit down in the hot tub, and put your shoulders under the water. Cross arms over chest and extend legs out in front. Then, lean forward and backward to do low-impact crunches.
Do you want to install a hot tub in your home? The team at Spa Tech is ready to help you. Contact us right away, and experience all the benefits you can get from a nice, hot soak.
