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Do you mean you literally sit in the sauna for hour?

piva00 10d ago
I don't think anyone is capable to sit in a 90-100C sauna for a whole hour without breaks, otherwise with breaks I surely have been in a sauna for more than an hour. Just this summer I was at a cottage by Vänern (the largest lake in Sweden), the sauna was built right at the lake with a pier setup for jumping into it, we had a party going late into the night where you constantly moved from the sauna into the lake, out of the lake, have chats, a beer, into the sauna again, rinse and repeat for some 8-10 hours. I have no idea exactly how long I was in the sauna but it was definitely more than a couple of hours in the whole affair :)
- KptMarchewa 10d ago
  >I don't think anyone is capable to sit in a 90-100C sauna for a whole hour without breaks, otherwise with breaks I surely have been in a sauna for more than an hour. Yes, I definitely do agree with that. I too love what you're describing - we have some of that in Poland too :) However, I was not sure if we're talking about it - or some American version I know only from various memes - where people are coming in with phones and in shoes.
- grufkork 10d ago
  If you ever basta in winter, try bringing ice into the sauna. Smearing yourself with ice while in the heat is really nice :)
tecleandor 10d ago
> I assume going to sauna takes an hour, [...] but beyond that the minutes inside/outside are a mystery... I understand that as the general act of getting up, starting the sauna, going for your clothes change, resting a couple times, going to the kitchen for water, shower, switch off, kitchen again, whatever... you've filled an hour of your time.
- KptMarchewa 10d ago
  That interpretation does make sense. Just heating the sauna can take even longer.
blaze33 10d ago
No, you would be cooked, but I had a hunch that obviously people already tried to see how long you could stay inside and yes there was a competition in Finland exactly for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Sauna_Championships#2010_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Sauna_Championships#2010... I said "was" because 2010 was, in fact, the last edition of the event: > On 7 August 2010, two competitors were removed from the sauna and brought to the hospital in critical condition after six minutes of 110 °C (230 °F) heat
- euroderf 10d ago
  And one of them died.
  - decimalenough 10d ago
    > His death was aided by his use of strong painkillers and local anesthetic grease on his skin.
stevekemp 9d ago
Generally I assume "sauna" will take an hour, or ninety minutes, but the process is pretty much: 1. Have a shower. 2. Sit in the sauna, and throw water on the stones. Stay there for 5-15 minutes, drinking a beer and sometimes listening to music. Depends on the mood what kind of duration I enjoy, and what kind of music I have. If alone music is nice, if with a friend or two then we have silence and conversation instead. 3. Come out and sit on the balcony, to have a little break. 4. If I still feel like it go back to step one, and have a quick shower before going back. Otherwise have a longer shower, and check that the heater is going to shut down soon.

I don't think anyone is capable to sit in a 90-100C sauna for a whole hour without breaks, otherwise with breaks I surely have been in a sauna for more than an hour. Just this summer I was at a cottage by Vänern (the largest lake in Sweden), the sauna was built right at the lake with a pier setup for jumping into it, we had a party going late into the night where you constantly moved from the sauna into the lake, out of the lake, have chats, a beer, into the sauna again, rinse and repeat for some 8-10 hours. I have no idea exactly how long I was in the sauna but it was definitely more than a couple of hours in the whole affair :)

KptMarchewa 10d ago
>I don't think anyone is capable to sit in a 90-100C sauna for a whole hour without breaks, otherwise with breaks I surely have been in a sauna for more than an hour. Yes, I definitely do agree with that. I too love what you're describing - we have some of that in Poland too :) However, I was not sure if we're talking about it - or some American version I know only from various memes - where people are coming in with phones and in shoes.
grufkork 10d ago
If you ever basta in winter, try bringing ice into the sauna. Smearing yourself with ice while in the heat is really nice :)

tecleandor 10d ago

> I assume going to sauna takes an hour, [...] but beyond that the minutes inside/outside are a mystery... I understand that as the general act of getting up, starting the sauna, going for your clothes change, resting a couple times, going to the kitchen for water, shower, switch off, kitchen again, whatever... you've filled an hour of your time.

KptMarchewa 10d ago
That interpretation does make sense. Just heating the sauna can take even longer.

blaze33 10d ago

No, you would be cooked, but I had a hunch that obviously people already tried to see how long you could stay inside and yes there was a competition in Finland exactly for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Sauna_Championships#2010_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Sauna_Championships#2010... I said "was" because 2010 was, in fact, the last edition of the event: > On 7 August 2010, two competitors were removed from the sauna and brought to the hospital in critical condition after six minutes of 110 °C (230 °F) heat

euroderf 10d ago
And one of them died.
- decimalenough 10d ago
  > His death was aided by his use of strong painkillers and local anesthetic grease on his skin.

stevekemp 9d ago

Generally I assume "sauna" will take an hour, or ninety minutes, but the process is pretty much: 1. Have a shower. 2. Sit in the sauna, and throw water on the stones. Stay there for 5-15 minutes, drinking a beer and sometimes listening to music. Depends on the mood what kind of duration I enjoy, and what kind of music I have. If alone music is nice, if with a friend or two then we have silence and conversation instead. 3. Come out and sit on the balcony, to have a little break. 4. If I still feel like it go back to step one, and have a quick shower before going back. Otherwise have a longer shower, and check that the heater is going to shut down soon.