Relaxation is an important part of a complete exercise programme, treat yourself to a comfortable changing room with shower facilities and complementary hair dryers, hair straighteners, rest rooms and lockable lockers.
You can also sit back, relax and even chat with friends and unwind in the luxurious warmth of our saunas. Alternatively some of our clubs offer steam rooms where you can increase ciruculation, detoxify your skin and of course relax after working out. The relaxtion zone experience will leave your body and mind totally replenished.
Read on to learn more about the benefits of sauna and steam ...
Sitting in a sauna or steam environment could be the most vigorous activity you've had all day. The heat produces an artificial "fever" and urges every organ of your body into action. While outwardly relaxed, your inner organs are as active as though you were jogging or mowing the lawn. At the same time, you are being cleansed from inside out by the skin, your body's largest organ and its excretion, sweat.
Sweating is as essential to our health as eating and breathing. It accomplishes three important things: rids the body of wastes, regulates the critical temperature of the body at 37 degrees C, and helps keep the skin clean and soft.
Many people, in this sedentary age, simply don't sweat enough, making saunas and steam rooms particularly desirable. Antiperspirants, artificial environments, smog, synthetic clothing, and a physically idle lifestyle all conspire to clog skin pores and inhibit the healthy flow of sweat. These detrimental effects can be reversed by time spent in sauna or steam rooms. Your membership at cityfitness provides you with unlimited usage of the sauna and or steam room.