Why HYROX athletes are using a sauna after every session.
You train for the stations. The runs are what get you.
See the options
Fifteen minutes after
A household outlet
Free shippingEvery HYROX athlete pictures the sled.
The 152 kilo push at station two. The hundred wall balls at the end. That is not what stops most HYROX athletes.
In a 2026 survey of 418 HYROX athletes, half had reported at least one HYROX-related injury. Most came on gradually, not in a single moment, and the most common cause was not a station. It was the running. About sixty percent of race time is running, and it gets slower after every station: in Season 8 race data the average first kilometre was 4:20, and the second was already 5:22.
A separate twelve-week study that followed HYROX athletes found the same thing: the knee was the most injured area, most injuries were overuse, and running caused more of them than the stations did.
It does not happen at station eight. It happens in the weeks between races.
Sources: Survey of 418 HYROX athletes, Ketzer et al., medRxiv preprint, 2026, not yet peer reviewed. Twelve-week prospective cohort of HYROX athletes, Chittenden et al., Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2026. Pacing: HyroxDataLab, Season 8 analysis of 12,479 results.
It's not an injury yet. That's the problem.
It is the Tuesday run where your legs felt like lead, because Saturday's race sim was still in your legs.
The sandbag lunges you broke into four sets. The last two kilometres you jogged. The week your knee felt tight coming down the stairs, so you trained through it.
In that same survey, the one training habit tied to getting hurt was how many HYROX sessions people did each week. Not age, not experience. Volume. None of that goes in your log. It is all the same thing, arriving slowly. By the time it has a name, it has been there for a month.
A few minutes of stretching. A massage gun in a drawer.
You stretch your quads against the rig while the next class files in. You bought the massage gun. You foam roll when something already hurts.
You sleep badly after a race sim and train again the next morning.
That is not a criticism. It is what almost everyone does.
Your sessions have a time in your week. Recovery gets whatever is left over.
The evidence says it goes after.
In a randomised trial, 47 inactive adults with at least one heart risk factor were split into three groups for eight weeks: exercise, exercise plus fifteen minutes of sauna straight afterwards, or neither.
The sauna group came out ahead of the exercise-only group on cardiorespiratory fitness and systolic blood pressure. They were not athletes, and it is one small trial. In athletes, a 2025 trial gave team-sport players ten minutes of infrared sauna after training, three times a week for six weeks. Increased muscle soreness only showed up in the group that skipped the sauna.
This is not instead of training. It is the fifteen minutes after.
Source: Lee et al., Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol, 2022, PMID 35785965. Ahokas et al., Temperature, 2025, PMID 40926789. Heat supports recovery. It does not prevent injury or make you faster.
Heat after the hardest hour of your week.
A gym sauna heats the air around you. Full spectrum infrared goes past the skin, three to four centimetres into muscle and joint. Into the quads, the calves and the knees you just ran eight kilometres on.
Your heart rate climbs. Your blood vessels open. You sweat. That is the mechanism, and it supports recovery without anybody promising you a faster time.
Heart rate rises
Into muscle and jointof 482 sauna users said they slept better afterwards.
That is a survey, not a trial. It is also where recovery actually happens.
Not in the sauna. In the eight hours after it.
Source: Global Sauna Survey, Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 2019, PMID 31126560. Self-reported, 482 respondents. Heat supports sleep, it does not treat a sleep disorder.
The hardest part of red light therapy is standing in front of it.
You're already sitting down.
A panel costs three hundred to two thousand dollars on its own, and the protocol is standing still in front of it several times a week. Nobody does that after a race sim. You will sit down after one.
It is in the back wall. Not an upsell, not an attachment, not a subscription.
Source: Vanin et al., Lasers in Medical Science, 2018, PMID 29090398. Supports recovery. It does not treat an injury.
Every hard session gets fifteen minutes.
It takes about fifteen minutes to warm up. Turn it on as you head out, and it is ready when you get back. Drink water, then shower.
Most owners land on four or five sessions a week. The typical HYROX athlete trains about eight hours a week.
For a HYROX athlete that is just every hard session.
A corner, or a closet.
About thirty minutes to put together. One person. No tools, nothing drilled, a regular household outlet. The Solara fits adults up to 6 foot 8 seated, and at 63 inches tall outside it clears a standard doorway.
No tools, about 30 min
Household 110V outlet
Free shipping, mainland USA
Warm in about 15 minFrom HYROX and hybrid athletes.
Turn it on before the session, sit in it when I get back. That is the whole trick. I have done more recovery in two months than in five years of owning a foam roller.
Saturday nights after a race sim used to be restless. They are not now. Four stars because I wish it warmed up faster than fifteen minutes on cold mornings.
No complaints about the sauna itself and my legs feel better the day after a stations session. Measure your doorway before it arrives, getting the boxes round the turn at the top of my stairs was a job.
The full lineup.
Free shipping, HSA and FSA eligible through TrueMed.
Full spectrum infrared wooden sauna.
Our best seller, redesigned to fit two people.
Portable infrared that folds into a closet.
Wet heat that packs into a bag between sessions.
The same steam tent with a red light panel inside it.
Our new traditional Finnish dry sauna.
Free shipping to the mainland USA
HSA and FSA eligible through TrueMedStandard 110V outletQuestions.
Up to 158°F, and the range starts at 77°F, so you can sit cooler on a day your legs have already had enough. It ships set to 149°F; holding TIME + and TIME − together for about six seconds unlocks the full range.
About fifteen minutes. Turn it on as you head out the door and it is ready when you get back.
No. A regular 110V household outlet at 1600W with an 8 foot cord. Give it its own outlet rather than a shared strip, and skip extension leads.
35 by 37 inches of floor and 63 inches tall, so it clears a standard doorway and sits in a corner. Measure the tightest turn on the way in, not the room. It arrives as two flat boxes, the larger 65 by 37 by 13 inches.
Yes, through TrueMed, subject to their eligibility questions at checkout.
2-Year warranty, with support by phone and text.
Drink water first and start with shorter sessions. Heat straight after hard training is extra load on the body for the first week or two.
The gym sauna is there when the gym is open and someone else is already in it. Yours is fifteen steps away, straight after the session you did at home or the drive back from the gym.
Rest, food, water and sleep do most of the work. Heat afterwards supports recovery and supports sleep, and fifteen minutes is enough.
In a 2026 survey of 418 HYROX athletes, the knee was the most injured area, followed by the back, lower leg and hip, and running was the most common cause.
It supports recovery and supports sleep. It does not prevent injury or make you faster, and you should drink water and build up slowly.
Drink water first and start with shorter sessions. Heat straight after hard training is extra load on the body for the first week or two.
The gym sauna is there when the gym is open and someone else is already in it. Yours is fifteen steps away, straight after the session you did at home or the drive back from the gym.
Rest, food, water and sleep do most of the work. Heat afterwards supports recovery and supports sleep, and fifteen minutes is enough.
In a 2026 survey of 418 HYROX athletes, the knee was the most injured area, followed by the back, lower leg and hip, and running was the most common cause.
It supports recovery and supports sleep. It does not prevent injury or make you faster, and you should drink water and build up slowly.
Heat therapy supports recovery and supports sleep. It does not prevent or treat injuries, and nothing here is medical advice. Speak to your physician before starting sauna use.
Why HYROX athletes are using a sauna after every session.
You train for the stations. The runs are what get you.
See the optionsFifteen minutes after the sessionA household outletEvery HYROX athlete pictures the sled.
The 152 kilo push at station two. The hundred wall balls at the end. That is not what stops most HYROX athletes.
In a 2026 survey of 418 HYROX athletes, half had reported at least one HYROX-related injury. Most came on gradually, not in a single moment, and the most common cause was not a station. It was the running. About sixty percent of race time is running, and it gets slower after every station: in Season 8 race data the average first kilometre was 4:20, and the second was already 5:22.
A separate twelve-week study that followed HYROX athletes found the same thing: the knee was the most injured area, most injuries were overuse, and running caused more of them than the stations did.
It does not happen at station eight. It happens in the weeks between races.
Sources: Ketzer et al., medRxiv preprint, 2026, not yet peer reviewed. Chittenden et al., Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2026. HyroxDataLab, Season 8.
It's not an injury yet. That's the problem.
It is the Tuesday run where your legs felt like lead, because Saturday's race sim was still in your legs.
The sandbag lunges you broke into four sets. The last two kilometres you jogged. The week your knee felt tight coming down the stairs, so you trained through it.
The one habit tied to getting hurt was how many HYROX sessions people did each week. Not age, not experience. Volume. None of it goes in your log.
A few minutes of stretching. A massage gun in a drawer.
You stretch your quads against the rig while the next class files in. You bought the massage gun. You foam roll when something already hurts.
You sleep badly after a race sim and train again the next morning.
Your sessions have a time in your week. Recovery gets whatever is left over.
The evidence says it goes after.
In a randomised trial, 47 inactive adults with at least one heart risk factor were split into three groups for eight weeks: exercise, exercise plus fifteen minutes of sauna straight afterwards, or neither.
The sauna group came out ahead of the exercise-only group on cardiorespiratory fitness and systolic blood pressure. In a 2025 trial, team-sport players given ten minutes of infrared sauna after training saw increased soreness only in the group that skipped it.
This is not instead of training. It is the fifteen minutes after.
Source: PMID 35785965. Heat supports recovery. It does not prevent injury or make you faster.
Heat after the hardest hour of your week.
A gym sauna heats the air around you. Full spectrum infrared warms your body directly, the quads, the calves and the knees you just ran eight kilometres on.
Your heart rate climbs. Your blood vessels open. You sweat. That is the mechanism.
Heart rate risesInto muscle and jointof 482 sauna users said they slept better afterwards.
That is a survey, not a trial. It is also where recovery actually happens.
Not in the sauna. In the eight hours after it.
Source: Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 2019, PMID 31126560. Self-reported. Heat supports sleep, it does not treat a sleep disorder.
The hardest part of red light therapy is standing in front of it.
You're already sitting down.
A panel costs three hundred to two thousand dollars on its own, and the protocol is standing still in front of it several times a week. Nobody does that after a race sim. You will sit down after one.
It is in the back wall. Not an upsell, not an attachment, not a subscription.
Source: Vanin et al., Lasers in Medical Science, 2018, PMID 29090398. Supports recovery. It does not treat an injury.
Every hard session gets fifteen minutes.
It takes about fifteen minutes to warm up. Turn it on as you head out, and it is ready when you get back. Drink water, then shower.
For a HYROX athlete that is just every hard session.
A corner, or a closet.
About thirty minutes to put together. One person. No tools, nothing drilled, a regular household outlet.
From HYROX and hybrid athletes.
Turn it on before the session, sit in it when I get back. I have done more recovery in two months than in five years of owning a foam roller.
Saturday nights after a race sim used to be restless. They are not now. Four stars because I wish it warmed up faster on cold mornings.
My legs feel better the day after a stations session. Measure your doorway before it arrives, getting the boxes round the turn at the top of my stairs was a job.
The full lineup.
Free shipping, HSA and FSA eligible through TrueMed.
Full spectrum infrared wooden sauna.
Our best seller, redesigned to fit two people.
Portable infrared that folds into a closet.
Wet heat that packs into a bag between sessions.
The same steam tent with a red light panel inside it.
Our new traditional Finnish dry sauna.
Free shipping to the mainland USAHSA and FSA eligible through TrueMedQuestions.
Up to 158°F, and the range starts at 77°F, so you can sit cooler on a day your legs have had enough. It ships set to 149°F; holding TIME + and TIME − together for about six seconds unlocks the full range.
About fifteen minutes. Turn it on as you head out the door and it is ready when you get back.
No. A regular 110V household outlet at 1600W with an 8 foot cord. Give it its own outlet and skip extension leads.
35 by 37 inches of floor and 63 inches tall. Measure the tightest turn on the way in, not the room. It arrives as two flat boxes, the larger 65 by 37 by 13 inches.
Yes, through TrueMed, subject to their eligibility questions at checkout.
2-Year warranty, with support by phone and text.
Heat therapy supports recovery and supports sleep. It does not prevent or treat injuries, and nothing here is medical advice.