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Improving Sports Performance

Salt therapy offers the following beneficial effects for athletes:

  • Improves lung function
  • Enhances lung capacity and endurance
  • Boosts lung resistance, reducing susceptibility to respiratory infections/allergies/hay fever
  • Enhances performance with less breath. This means having more respiratory reserve to achieve optimal performance.

Halotherapy: The Latest Trend in Professional Sports Organizations

National teams in Eastern Europe regularly incorporate halotherapy into their training regimens. Teams spend a training session each week in large underground salt caves, such as those in Bochnia, Poland, which have a speleotherapy unit with an underground sports field and basketball court. The Salina Turda mine in Romania has facilities for playing tennis and even boasts a full-size football field.

Halotherapy as Part of an Active Sports Program

With the right breathing technique, you reduce the risk of injuries and enhance performance. Proper and deep breathing is important for several reasons.

Firstly, during exercise, your body requires more oxygen to perform. This means that good breathing allows you to run faster or lift heavier weights, for example. The harder muscles have to work during exercise, the more energy needs to be released to make them work, so the more oxygen is needed there.

One of the key benefits of Halotherapy for athletes is improving and optimizing lung function and capacity.

Halotherapy is a completely natural, drug-free treatment method. It promotes recovery time after exertion. Athletes can achieve better performance with less breath. This means having more respiratory reserve to achieve better performance.

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How it works

Endurance athletes in particular often suffer from asthma or sensitive airways.
They often experience shortness of breath or coughing after exercising, pain when breathing, and reduced performance.
The complaints are caused by narrowing of the airways, the bronchi, with a typical feature that it only occurs during exertion.
Notorious are, for example, the 1500-meter cough in speed skaters, or shortness of breath after intensive sprints in footballers. In these complaints, exertion triggers the narrowing of the airways.
Other triggers that can lead to narrowing of the airways include cold, temperature changes, fog, smoke, air pollution, emotions and stress, people who are sensitive to allergies and hay fever.

What is also striking is that people who have exercised a lot and intensively often develop respiratory complaints at a later age, which may indicate that years of intensive exercise - possibly in a polluted environment - can contribute to respiratory diseases. (researcher Kenneth Fitch)
This is not surprising when you consider that during exercise you inhale and exhale up to two hundred liters per minute.

Clinical trials have shown that halotherapy is effective by:

  • Removing mucus from the airways, thereby clearing airflow obstruction.
  • Strengthening the mucous membranes and cilia to expel the mucus layer in the respiratory mechanism.
  • Having anti-inflammatory effects; salt kills present bacteria and fungi.
  • Improving bronchial hyperreactivity.
  • Enhancing lung function.
  • Maintaining moisture balance on the airway surface.
  • Aiding in the removal of unwanted inhaled particles/allergens from the lungs.