Scientific study: Taking five 30-40 minutes hot baths per week may drop your 5000 time by 40 seconds

We can't afford to have a bath in the UK. Water bills are very high.

The findings were not surprising. Research with HWI goes back to the 90s.

Also, studies have shown that saunas can improve cardiovascular health as well as other areas.

welcome publication, but not surprising. Heat exposure already known to have favorable cardiovascular effects (e.g., via sauna).

Same effect from any number of ways that make you sweat more.

Filling up the tub as we speak

Even better if you take a cold shower right after! All African runners I know take cold showers!

Conversion might not work that directly.

I prefer steam / hot tub to stretching. It’s as effective and pleasant, while massages or stretching are troublesome.

Is this why the nordics have good endurance athletes? Pretty sure every Finnish citizen is entitled to their own personal sauna.

Even better if you take a cold shower right after!

It's called contrast baths in PT speak.

Would you employ this at Cornell if you were still coaching? Do you think it might have changed the results of any Heps meets?

Study needed a control group. Everyone improves over 5 weeks if you tell them they are in a study.

Since when do well-trained athletes have a VO2 max of 60?. They're running five times a week? Sounds like novice runners to me.

Besides, isn't it obvious that warm baths are a positive recuperation technique?

Thanks as this does include soapland baths? Have you known soapland baths as you can come a lot there

WARM baths INCREASE inflammation as COLD baths DECREASE information

Thats dumb. Warm baths open up capillaries bringing nutrients to muscle causing muscles to be repaired.

Please don’t say dumb

a soapland bath might help bc it INCREASES RELAXATION

otherwise warm water INCREASES recovery time