Post-exercise home-based hot bathing enhances strength gains 🌡️
A practical home-based strategy.
Post-exercise home-based hot-bathing with/without light exercise: effects on physiological adaptations to short-term high-intensity resistance training in healthy young men
Study Details
In this new study, 43 healthy young men were assigned to either of the following post-exercise conditions…
🚿 shower (no hot-bathing)
🛁 hot-bathing (40℃)
🛁🏋️ hot-bathing + light-exercise
🚿🏋️ shower + light-exercise
Participants also completed five sessions of isometric knee-extension training at 75% MVC over two weeks 🗓️
Here is what they found ⬇️
Key Findings
Compared with showering (control), hot-bathing produced…
📈 Greater max voluntary muscle contraction gains
📉 Mitigated peripheral muscle fatigue
Adding light-exercise to hot-bathing did not further improve strength or peripheral/central conditions ❌
Conclusion
Home-based hot water bathing enhances muscle strength gains and helps reduce muscular fatigue 💪
This presents a practical strategy to support athletic performance and adaptations to training ✅
Reference
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00421-025-06024-5
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