If you’re an avid gym enthusiast or even love the work of a home gym, you’ve likely dealt with sore muscles. It’s a natural part of working out. To build muscles, you need to work microtears into the fibers that then grow back stronger. But muscle soreness can also be debilitating if it lasts for more than a day. It can actually become an impediment to your workout routine and slow down your goals.
But one way to help your muscles heal faster may come from a surprising place: your hot tub.
Below is some info on how your hot tub can help soothe your aching muscles.
Muscles love heat
When your muscles are sore from use, heat can be one of the biggest boons for your recovery. While acute injuries require ice, general muscle soreness from use (such as exercise) benefits from heat because heat opens up the blood vessels allowing the healing process to accelerate as more blood comes to the area. This blood flow increase can also help with old injuries such as arthritis or areas still healing from exercise-related injuries.
A jet massage
The pliability of your muscles is crucial to their growth. This means your muscles are lean, strong, and can move and work with little resistance. It’s part of what the warm-up stage of exercises helps with. You can ensure a constant state of pliability thanks to jets in a hot tub such as the Michael Phelps Legend Series which provides a great massage to large muscle groups, especially with the combination of hot water. Over time this keeps your muscles relaxed and makes it less likely that they’ll strain from use.
Take the pressure off
Humans are incredibly buoyant in water. We float in most bodies of water and in some, like those with high salt contents, we float even more. But any body of water is going to help relieve the pressure we put on our joints and muscles. That’s why after a workout a soak in a hot tub can be great for your body because you give it some relief from gravity for a while. This can help take accurate pain out of joints and muscles and overall provide relief on parts of your body you work hard.
Additional Questions
Should I soak in a hot tub before or after a workout?
You can really do either. A hot tub with jets can help get your muscles pliable and ready to work and at the same time it can help heal muscles that have become sore with use. It doesn’t hurt to do some time in the hot tub both before and after a workout.
How much time should I spend in the hot tub?
It’s really a matter of as long as you feel comfortable. With the exception of getting pruney or wrinkled, you can’t over soak in a hot tub. But if you’re looking to put a good time-frame on your soak, 10-30 minutes is usually the sweet spot.
Talk a professional at the Hot Tub Store in Rochester Hills today about getting a hot tub installed in your home or yard!
When you visit our hot tub and swim spa store you will be more than impressed with our selection of luxury brand aquatic products that include swim spas and hot tubs of all sizes by Master Spas. All of which are feature rich and performance optimized. Helping with muscle soreness is just one of many perks of using a hot tub. When it’s in your own home or backyard, and available anytime, you are already ahead of the game!