Everybody talks about having a sauna to go to get a good sweat going.

You don't need a sauna if you have outside, especially outside in the summer.

Summer is your sauna.

Summer sauna training!

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The Air is So Thick with Humidity

Go outside in the humid summer heat with bugs and the mosquitoes buzzing all around you. Gives you an extra thing to deal with. I call it environmental stressors.

The heat, the bugs, the constant annoyance compounds and then you get that summer humid heat and when you start doing anything, you just gasp for air.

The air is so thick.

Especially if you're down in the south, the air is so thick with humidity, it's hard to breathe.

After a couple of rounds of shadow boxing, bag work, or just doing anything, lifting any type of weights, you do a set or two and then you just gasp for air.

The same session that you could do inside, you would be fine. You do it outside, you can't breathe. It takes it out of you. It's almost like you just fought a hard round. And then you got to recover and then you got to keep it going. You got to do multiple rounds. Multiple rounds in shadow boxing, multiple rounds on the heavy bag, and you got to keep that pace going. The sweat is then just pouring down your body.

By the time you're done, you're exhausted. You are drenched in your own sweat, and you've experienced a natural sauna.

Post Training Peace

And then there is this peace comes over you. Everything just gets quiet.

There's no other feeling than post-training peace that you get, especially when you put in a hard session. You've exhausted yourself physically, mentally, and then you can just sit back and enjoy and just listen. Listen to outside. Listen to your inside. There's no other feeling.

There's a Fedor Emelianenko quote that I love:

"I like this feeling of weariness after training, when I'm walking home exhausted, dragging my feet. I like this a lot."

And this is what outside training in the summer heat, in the summer sauna, this is what it gets you, gives you that peace.

But most importantly, it gives you an edge.

If you can withstand and you can push every single time training hard outside in the summer heat, in the humidity building that endurance, that stamina, that cardio. Then you'll run circles around the people who train inside and they have that perfect AC temperature.

When everyone else is training inside, you need go outside and train in the humid summer heat.

Summer sauna training!