Unlock Recovery & Performance: The Power of Contrast Therapy

Unlock Recovery & Performance: The Power of Contrast Therapy

What Is Contrast Therapy?

Contrast therapy involves cycling between cold and hot exposures—typically immersing in cold water followed by a sauna session. This practice stimulates the body's natural healing processes, improving circulation, reducing inflammation, and promoting relaxation.

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THE BENEFITS OF CONTRAST THERAPY

  • ICE BATHS
  • SAUNAS

Using an ice bath tub for cold water immersion is hands down the best thing you can do for your health.

  • all benefits
  • RECOVERY
  • energy
  • sleep
  • mood
  • Stress
  • chronic pain
  • weight loss
Performance / Recovery

Soothe muscle soreness and inflammation in order for you to recover much faster.

Better Sleep

Enhances sleep quality by calming the nervous system and reducing stress.

Elevated Energy

Increases energy levels by activating the body's natural recovery processes.

Boost Mood

Ice baths raises your baseline dopamine levels, so you're likely to experience elevated mood in your day to day.

Immune Support

Strengthens immune response, helping to fight off illnesses.

Stress / Anxiety Relief

Cold water therapy has been shown to decrease the stress hormone cortisol. This study found that regular ice baths helped massively reduce anxiety and improve the mood of participants.

Recovery / Performance

Cold plunge benefits extend beyond the mental and chemical aspects of your body. Sports medicine has utilized cold water therapy for years to help with the active recovery of your muscles.

Elevated Energy

If you're looking to kickstart your morning or need an afternoon pick-me-up, cold plunging is an incredible way to boost your daily energy. Not only is the icy water rejuvenating, but it also triggers the release of healthy stress hormones that promote alertness. A 2 minute ice bath feels like drinking 5 cups of coffee (just without the jitters).

Better Sleep
  • When you dip into an ice bath, your body triggers the autonomic nervous system - the system that controls your response to stress.
  • When you begin to control your response to stress, you'll likely find that you begin to control your relaxation and sleep.
  • In short it improves sleep by lowering body temperature, reducing stress hormones, boosting mood-enhancing neurotransmitters, and activating the relaxation-focused parasympathetic nervous system.
Boosted Mood
  • Researchers have known for a while that plunging connects to our daily energy. In particular, there is lots of evidence that hormone imbalance can contribute to depression, meaning that a cold plunge might help to reduce depression and improve overall mood.
  • The release of dopamine in the brain during ice baths also further gives you that "happy" feeling which lasts for hours. Additionally, ice baths raises your baseline dopamine levels, so you're likely to experience elevated mood in your day to day.
Stress Relief

Cold water therapy has been shown to be an effective supplemental treatment for stress relief by decreasing the stress hormone cortisol. This study found that regular cold showers and ice baths helped reduce anxiety and improve the mood of participants.

Pain Relief

Consistent ice baths have been shown to generate up to 5x the baseline amount of hormones and neurotransmitters found in the body and brain that alleviate stress. This neurotransmitter can dramatically reduce inflammation and help with chronic pain.

Weight Loss

Cold water immersion also activates brown fat — tissue that helps keep the body warm and helps it control blood sugar and insulin levels. It also helps the body burn calories, which has lead to studies showing significant evidence that cold water immersion is an effective way to lose weight and burn calories.

Experience a natural high feeling like no other, while getting all these amazing health benefits. Heat therapy is hands down the best thing you can do for your health.

  • all benefits
  • RECOVERY
  • energy
  • sleep
  • health
  • Stress
Full Body Detox

Sweat out all the bad toxins, as your body flushes them out through the skin.

Muscle Soreness

Soothe muscle soreness and inflammation in order for you to recover much faster.

Reduced Inflammation

As your body gets hotter, your blood flow will increase which helps deliver more oxygen and nutrients to inflamed areas.

Better Sleep

Enhances sleep quality by calming the nervous system and reducing stress. On average increase deep sleep and REM sleep by up to 15%.

Your body temperature increases in the sauna, it then cools down when you finish your sessions - this alerts your body to produce melatonin.

Weight Loss

Supports metabolism, aiding in fat burning and weight management due to increased calorie burn.

Immune Support

Strengthens immune response, helping to fight off illnesses.

Elevated Energy

Increases energy levels by activating the body's natural recovery processes.

Stress / Anxiety Relief

Hot therapy has been shown to decrease the stress hormone cortisol.

Muscle Soreness / Recovery

Heat can help loosen up muscles and tissues, soothe stiff joints and improve flexibility.

Reduced Inflammation

As your body gets hotter, your blood flow will increase which helps deliver more oxygen and nutrients to inflamed areas.

Elevated Energy

Spending time in a sauna gives you a chance to disconnect from distractions. This mental break helps reduce feelings of restlessness, making it easier to focus and feel energized.

Better Sleep
Better Sleep

Regular sauna use can improve sleep quality. The combination of relaxation, reduced stress, and the body’s cooling response leads to deeper and more restorative sleep cycles.

Immune Support

Saunas can boost immune function by increasing body temperature, improving circulation, and promoting relaxation, which helps enhance white blood cell production and reduce stress.

Increased Longevity

Saunas are known to improve cardiovascular health and promoting relaxation, which reduces stress on the body

Lower Risk of Disease

By enhancing immune function, reducing inflammation, and supporting overall metabolic health.

Stress / Anxiety Relief

Hot therapy has been shown to decrease the stress hormone cortisol as you unwind in a calming setting.

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Brent B

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Thoroughly enjoy the Sauna Pod. It is well built and very effective. I have incorporated both of these products into a weekly routine and my life has changed immensely. Thanks Pod Company!

Nick K

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Wellness!! IcePod and SaunaPod. Use them both regularly and absolutely love them both.

Craig S

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Game changer! I've used the ice pod every day since i got it. only need to add ice every 3-4 days as water stays super cold even though it's summer here (got the PRO 2.0 version with extra insulation).

Derek V

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The Sauna Pod has been amazing so far. It gets to 185F very quickly (15ish minutes) and at 6’4” 200 lbs I still fit in it comfortably. The “window” off of the front allows me to watch my TV in my garage where I set mine up. Easy to clean, takes up minimal space, and works as well as any sauna I have been in before. Actually, this gets hotter than other larger, more expensive wooden/glass saunas priced $2500+. You rocked it with this product!

Matthew S

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Worth every penny! No longer worry about buying bags of ice and can just jump in every morning. Definitely recommend for anyone who lives in a warmer area or doesn’t want to spend the time and money buying bags of ice.

CONTRAST THERAPY ESSENTIALS

Everything you need to get started with contrast therapy

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