SPORTSMEN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD USE SAUNA HEAT BATHS

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31114, 18 July 1966, Page 9

SPORTSMEN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD USE SAUNA HEAT BATHS

GPORTSMEN throughout the world have long been aware of the benefits to be gained from regular use of sauna baths. The sauna has been an indispensable piece of equipment to boxers, • golfers, footballers, cricketers, athletes—in fact, all who indulge in strenuous exercise. Sauna halhs are provided at l>oth British Empire and Olympic Games In New Zealand top sportsmen are seizing on the home sauna bath to improve their health and help them maintain their first-class physical condition. Two of this country'* international golfers are home sauna enthusiasts. And dozens! of provincial Ranfurly Shield I Rugby players are installing! baths in their homes. , I AD S. (Tonyi Smith i the Wellington professional! golfer, has this to say about the bath: **ln the first four months I had my sauna bath X used it three times a 1

t week and lost 251 b in weight without any major variation ' in diet.” ! Bill Skelton, for many , years right among the cream

it of New Zealand’s jockeys, n swears by the home sauna. "It’s great to have, the x convenience of a sauna bath n in my own home. I use it regularly to maintain my ; racing weight of 7st 71b.” Both these top sportsmen have no hesitation in recomi mending the home sauna for I sporting enthusiasts. I In the racing field, partlcuF iarly, sweat baths have tong | been a vital method of losf ing quick pounds before a big race. The Taranaki Rugby team took a home sauna with them on tour and the team has become a fan of the sauna heat bath. The sauna is put to almost constant use and it is not unusual to see k a husky Taranaki for- ” ward embalmed to the | neck. Now the home sauna offers a method tar more effective | and safe than the steam 'i, baths of old. The dry heat ; of the sauna allows high ternSperatures to be endured » with great comfort rather ' than the discomfort also dated with steam baths.