majka@ubc-vision.CDN (Marc Majka) (01/08/85)
<How about a sauna followed by a roll in the snow?> I have heard that your pulse and blood pressure go way up for a couple of minutes, but I have also heard what Joseph Arceneaux has heard: "if it didn't kill you, it was probably good for you". Does anyone know more about the medical aspects? --- Marc Majka
dave@timeinc.UUCP (David Mutterer) (01/09/85)
> > <How about a sauna followed by a roll in the snow?> > > I have heard that your pulse and blood pressure go way up for a couple of > minutes, but I have also heard what Joseph Arceneaux has heard: "if it > didn't kill you, it was probably good for you". Does anyone know more about > the medical aspects? > > --- > Marc Majka Isn`t that what the Swede`s have been doing all along... going from a sauna out into a cold pond or lake... then back again.. -- David Mutterer [vax135|ihnp4]!timeinc!dave "Any opinions expressed herein are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of Time Incorporated."
annab@azure.UUCP (A_Beaver) (01/12/85)
> > References: <783@ubc-vision.CDN> <86@timeinc.UUCP> > Isn`t that what the Swede`s have been doing all along... going from a sauna > out into a cold pond or lake... then back again.. > -- > David Mutterer You bet. And being 1/2 Swede I plan to live a nice long 90 some years just like my Grandmother. It stimulates your cardiovascular system.
mike@amdcad.UUCP (Mike Parker) (01/15/85)
> > <How about a sauna followed by a roll in the snow?> > A long standing ritual with some friends of mine at their ski lodge in Maine involved six iterations of this, *and a "rack" of beer. Basically everyone put their beer in the snowdrift outside the sauna took one in and sat down to drink. I believe the sauna was at 195 degrees or so. When the drinker nearest the stove finished his beer, he put the empty under the bench, stood near the stove th get real hot, ran out to roll in the snow, and returned with a full beer to sit farthest from the stove. We worked our way round and round that bench until everyone had finished all six beers. Then we went to bed. Medically I suppose this was a terrible thing to do. But I have never slept as well as I did that week. Yes kids, we did this every night for a week. One note on drinking in saunas. Get glass bottles. When you enter the sauna wrap your thumb and forefinger around the top of the bottle so that when you drink only your thumb touches your lips. Nasty burns will be the result if you do not do this. Mike @ AMDCAD