Athletes engaged in various sports can benefit widely from floating therapy. Floating therapy can help athletes recover faster after intense competition, allowing them to resume weightlifting, training, and training at a faster pace.

In addition, regular floating can help improve attention (especially when you encounter difficulties due to a concussion) and visualization strategies to enhance your athletic performance.

The benefits of floating therapy for athletes

Both sports enthusiasts and professional athletes hope that floating has many physical and mental advantages. In fact, promising athletic performance requires multiple health rituals to maintain physical health, especially joints and muscles, which can become injured and worn over time if not properly maintained.

Some advantages of floating therapy for athletes include:

Relieve muscle fatigue: This is due to the injection of magnesium sulfate into the flotation solution. Floating zero gravity components can also lower lactate levels in the blood. At the same time, ultrasound cell massage technology is used to accelerate the body's lactate metabolism and quickly relieve muscle fatigue.

Faster Training Recovery: Reducing the effect of lactate can accelerate the body's recovery between training sessions, providing a more effective training experience. In addition, floating therapy can reduce physical tension and help prevent injuries.

Improving Attention: Floating in a floating cabin can help you get rid of scattered thoughts, allowing your thinking to focus more on one point, improving your attention and visualization strategies, and preparing you for future competitions.

Strengthening attention is also one of the main benefits experienced during meditation, which is a common goal for active floaters, mainly due to the sensory shielding of the floating cabin and the spiritual comfort brought by natural frequencies.

Injury recovery: Weight loss relaxation can reduce the pressure on your body, while floating fluid can build protein in your joints and restore vitality to sore muscles.

At the same time, it can also promote the production of endorphins in the body, providing natural painkillers, and water rich in mineral salts may be able to heal wounds twice as quickly.

Healthier sleep: Regular visits to the floating center can help athletes get rid of the pressure of athletic performance and achieve a more relaxed state, in order to obtain the necessary rest for proper exercise recovery. In fact, floating training can allow your body to rest four times faster than sleeping in bed.

Relieve stress: It is well known that floating can reduce stress hormones such as cortisol (released during exercise) and help calm the body and mind.

Turning to Floating Athletes

Combining floating hydrotherapy is a growing trend among various athletes today. Due to the many benefits of floating therapy, from pre match visualization to post match recovery, professional mainstream athletes (including Team8 athletes and Olympians), runners, golfers CrossFitters、 Tennis players, gymnasts, MMA fighters often visit floating therapy health centers, and even swimmers.

In fact, many famous athletes praise floating - many of them own their own tanks. Ten famous athletes who frequently use flotation therapy include:

Stephen Curry: This six time NBA All Star and MVP is very fond of floating, and he discussed it on ESPN, even releasing a video on how he uses the benefits of floating to train his brain.

Tom Brady: This famous six time Super Bowl champion and New England Patriots quarterback has a floating pod. When you visit the Fort Lauderdale location of Float8, you can book a float in the same sphere owned by Brady. ）

Michael Phelps: The most awarded Olympic athlete of all time has a sensory deprivation pod (floating pod) that helps him meditate, relax, and achieve inner peace.

Wayne Rooney: The third highest earning football player in Manchester United, has a floating cabin at home and spends up to 10 hours a week relaxing and quickly recovering from injuries.

Phillips Idowu: A silver medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, this British triple jumper ranked first in the world in 2008 and uses flotation therapy every week to help recover from back injuries.

JJ Watt: The Houston Texans' defensive winger and three time NFL Defensive Player of the Year has a floating pod and recognizes its life changing benefits.

Jon Olsson, a Swedish freestyle skier and alpine ski racer, as well as a nine time Winter Extreme Games medalist, said visiting the floating cabin helped him maintain a leading position in the competition.

Carl Lewis: According to reports, Lewis can be said to be the greatest track and field athlete in history, as he won a gold medal in the long jump event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

Pat Healy: This mixed martial artist attributes pre match relaxation and match day victory to floating.

Lennox Lewis: This boxing Hall of Fame member praises the benefits of floating therapy for physical recovery.

Floating therapy and other exercise recovery methods

At Float8 Wellness Lounge, we recommend athletes to visit the floating center once a week, schedule more appointments before and after major matches, and as part of their injury recovery plan.

However, floating is not the only health therapy you should use to help improve athletic performance and recovery. Enhance your overall health through other progressive exercises, including:

Cryotherapy - This ice bath therapy can deliver energy to muscles, reduce inflammation, decrease blood flow to limbs, and accelerate the recovery of soft tissue injuries.

Hydrotherapy massage - this method of using water as a carrier to impact and massage specific meridians of the body can quickly relieve fatigue.

Infrared sauna - like floating therapy, this practice can also accelerate muscle recovery, especially after high-intensity training.

Yoga - Stretching exercises can not only reduce the risk of injury, but also help you relieve tension and meditate.