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Strong Women
How to recover faster: can cryotherapy and sauna therapies help you sleep better?
4 years ago
2 min read
Cryotherapy has been around for a while, but it’s only recently that the practice has entered the mainstream. The question is: can it help us sleep – and therefore recover – better? Strong Women Miranda Larbi went to try it out.
If there’s one thing I’ve never been able to get on board with, it’s cold water therapy. I may have been brought up diving into ice-cold rivers on holiday, but the idea of taking an ice bath or committing to daily cold showers (in the UK) brings me out in a cold sweat. Yet the benefits are well documented, from reduced anxiety to improved immunity and sleep.
I have a friend who swears by those bloody cold showers, and she’s a walking advert for them: her energy is infectious, she rarely gets sick and she seems able to go hard on training day after day. She wakes up at 5am and is sound asleep before 10pm – the dream.
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