Category: Contrast Therapy

Sep 09

Cold Plunge and Sauna Etiquette: Do’s and Don’ts for Beginners

Both cold plunges and saunas are meant to be healthy, relaxing additions to your wellness routine, not anxiety-inducing ones. Learning proper cold plunge and sauna etiquette is a good start to easing your mind on your health journey. If you’re a beginner learning the cold plunge and sauna etiquette, there’s no better place to start […]

Aug 19

Contrast Therapy: The Benefits of Alternating Heat and Cold

Contrast therapy, also known as hot and cold therapy, has become increasingly popular in recent years due to its numerous health benefits. Despite its recent popularity, alternating between cold plunges and saunas is not a recent phenomenon. The use of this practice dates back thousands of years, but modern science continues to validate the benefits […]

Jul 18

Getting to the Heat (and the Cold) of the Matter: Contrast Therapy 101

If you’re familiar with our XPT (Extreme Performance Training) lifestyle, you’ll know that one of our three main pillars is Recover (the other two being Breathe and Move). We typically divide our recovery approach in two. First is passive recovery, which is basically rest and any kind of therapy in which a practitioner subjects you […]