When you sweat with Shape House at Urban You, you experience a deep-penetration sweat that is induced by targeted FAR infrared light. This is different from other forms of sweating in many ways- see below.
Shape House vs. Saunas:
During a Shape House sweat session, your face remains outside the FAR infrared blanket and is exposed to fresh air. In a sauna, on the other hand, the entire room is heated. Our common sense tells us that breathing 170° air is not ideal for our systems. Also, when you work so hard to release your toxins from your body, it is somewhat counterproductive to risk breathing them back in.
We also happen to find it more comfortable to lie down and watch TV, rather than sit in a wooden box.
Shape House vs. Steam rooms
To put it simply: toxin control. Unless your steam room is perched at the top of the Himalayas, there is a good chance that most of the water that is broken down into steam contains chlorine and other chemicals that are easily breathed in.
Along with these water contaminants, steam rooms are often cleaned with intense chemical products that can also be broken down into the air and inhaled.
With a Shape House sweat session at Urban You, you are not exposed to those elements.
Shape House vs. Working out
In the same way that swimming isn’t the same as running, and boxing isn’t the same as bicycling, no workout is the same as sweating.
Sweating is simply one more way for your body to lose weight, detox, relax, boost endorphins, increase cardiac function, and burn calories. If you do exercise, sweating is a wonderful way to release the lactic acid that causes muscle soreness. If you don’t, sweating helps you improve your fitness and wellbeing in another way.
Many sweaters who don’t exercise regularly find that sweating also encourages them to be more active by giving them more energy and more stamina on a daily basis.
Shape House vs Hot Flashes
The deliberate sweat that you experience during an infrared session is a very different sensation than the unintentional (and often stressful) sweat that accompanies hot flashes.
During a Sweat session, you are purposefully allowing your body to sweat in a relaxed way, which lets contaminants escape your system without engaging muscle tension or mental strain. Many of our menopausal sweaters tell us that sweating at Shape House is their way of reducing the frequency and intensity of their hot flashes, and that they feel immense relief in being able to choose when to sweat, as opposed to having an unexpected hot flash.