If you have used a hot tub, then you should have gotten out of it feeling better than when you got in. You feel relaxed and your body feels better. Your muscle aches have diminished. These are some examples of how using a hot tub can improve your health and wellness. Read on to find out more about how a hot tub can make you feel better.
Stress Relief
For many the most obvious benefit is providing both mental and physical stress relief. When left unmanaged for too long, stress and tension can severely decrease your quality of life. So, it is very important to find a way to handle the stress of your day-to-day life.
Hot tubs can be used to create a personal oasis away from the daily grind to help you escape from these pressures. When paired with the soothing effect of the warm water and feeling of a personalized massage releasing tension for your muscles, a hot tub can help significantly reduce your stress. To enhance these effects, you can also add in the effects of relaxing color changing lighting, gentle soothing music, and aromatherapy to create your ultimate refuge from your stress.
Improved Circulation
Soaking in hot water significantly improves your blood circulation by expanding your blood vessels. A 20-minute soak in hot water can increase your circulation up to 121%. This allows more blood to get to your muscles and skin. This means that your tissues are getting more oxygen and nutrients which promotes better health and healing. It also allows your blood to flush out more of the toxins created when your body is under stress.
Improved Sleep
These days, who doesn’t need more sleep and better sleep. When you are asleep is when your body heals and resets itself for the next day. Using a hot tub helps you get more sleep and improves the quality of sleep that you do get. By reducing your mental and physical stress a hot tub helps calm your brain by releasing serotonin which makes it easier to fall asleep and stay asleep. Using a hot tub in the evening before going to bed will actually trick your body in to thinking that it is time to go to sleep. When your body is heated up and then cools down, it releases chemicals that trigger the sleep cycle.
Improved Joint Health
Your joints and muscles are under constant stress from holding up and supporting your body. They never get a break as they fight against gravity. The way to counteract this force of gravity is through submersion in water which supports your body so that your muscles and joints don’t have too. This enhanced even more though the use of jets which pushes your body off of the surface of the hot tub and supports it on a cushion of water. This support allows your joints to rest and heal.
This healing is improved by the increased circulation of blood and nutrients to your joints brought on by the heat of the hot tub. This pairing of better blood flow from the heat and the support of your body created by buoyancy is why your joints feel so much better when you get out of a hot tub.
Pain Relief
In addition to making your joints feel more relaxed and therefore less painful, hot tubs reduce pain in other ways. The heat will relax your muscles and tendons, and increase the blood flow to them, which allows them to heal which will reduce your pain. The hydromassage provided by a hot tubs jets will further relax your tense muscles and help remove knots from them.
The improved sleep you get from using a hot tub allows your body to heal the daily wear and tear that you body experiences more effectively. Hot tub therapy has also been shown to improve pain in people with chronic health conditions such as fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis.
Faster Recovery
Whether you are an athlete working out to compete, or just someone who exercises to stay in shape and improve your health, your body needs to recover after working out. By improving the blood flow to your muscles, it allows them to heal faster and you to recover faster. Hot water is the most efficient way to heat your body up. It transfers heat to your body 25 times faster than hot air does, allowing the heat to penetrate further into your muscles and joints. Hydromassage also stimulates the release of lactic acid which can build up in your muscles during exercises.
For more information on how a hot tub can improve your health and well-being we recommend visiting a local hot tub professional. They can discuss your needs and help you find a hot tub that will help you feel better.