168: The benefits of sauna with Wes McMahon
The Fitnessista Podcast: Healthy In Real Life
Gina Harney
4.9 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Hi friends! I'm so excited to be chatting about saunas with Wes McMahon on the podcast today.
Here's what we talk about:
- The benefits of sauna
- How to choose one and keep it clean
- Different types of heat
and so.much.more
168: The benefits of sauna with Wes McMahon
Here's more about Wes and his background:
Wes McMahon is the Founder and CEO of Sun Valley Saunas - the ultimate at-home sauna brand. With the many physical and mental health benefits of saunas/cold plunges, including stress management, detoxification, increased metabolism, weight loss, improved sleep, and more, Wes is on a mission with Sun Valley Saunas to bring these very benefits right to your doorstep by offering competitive prices on the highest quality, hand-built traditional saunas, infrared saunas, and ice barrels. With a variety of saunas including 1-6 person indoor, outdoor, and barrel saunas, as well as sauna essentials like heaters, stoves, and even ice barrel cold plunge tubs, Sun Valley Saunas makes it easier than ever to channel a luxury wellness spa retreat right from the comfort of your home.
Check out their website and their Instagram here.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Healthy and Real Life podcast episode number 168. |
| 0:04.8 | Welcome to the Healthy and Real Life podcast, bite-sized tips for healthy living that you can implement right now. |
| 0:11.8 | Join us weekly for interviews and real life advice for creating the happiest and healthiest version of yourself. |
| 0:18.8 | Here's your host, fitness expert, author, and mom of two, |
| 0:22.6 | Gina Harney. Hey everyone. Welcome back to the show. This is Gina, creator of the fitnessista blog |
| 0:28.0 | and brand. I'm so excited that you're here today. Thank you so much for tuning in and so excited |
| 0:33.5 | for today's episode. So today we are talking about the benefits of sauna, how to choose a sauna for |
| 0:39.5 | your home, things to consider what type of heat is recommended and so much more. You guys know, |
| 0:45.9 | I'm a huge fan of sauna. I just feel so much better when I do this in my routine. So I'm so |
| 0:50.8 | pumped to dedicate an entire episode to one of my favorite topics. So before we head |
| 0:56.4 | into today's episode, I wanted to talk to you guys about Sculpt Society. So this is probably my |
| 1:03.1 | favorite workout right now. I've been doing it for quite a few months. I love that I can do it |
| 1:08.6 | at home. I don't have to commute anywhere. I can wear my pajamas. |
| 1:11.9 | I don't have to get dressed. If the kids are home or we're traveling, I can get in a |
| 1:16.9 | Sculpt Society workout. And the workouts are so fun. They're perfectly challenging. So they |
| 1:22.7 | challenged me without leaving me feeling completely depleted afterwards. And I just feel like they've made a huge difference in my fitness levels and my endurance. |
| 1:33.1 | I love these workouts so much. |
| 1:35.5 | So Sculpt Society was founded by a celebrity fitness trainer, Megan Rup, and she's a dancer. |
| 1:40.9 | So it's dance inspired. |
| 1:42.5 | So they have dance cardio classes sculpt classes which remind me of |
| 1:47.3 | bar but also traditional strength elements blended in and i have to say i have tried so many |
| 1:54.8 | studio fitness classes in the name of research so many online platforms and this is the only online platform or app that I've |
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