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Ice-hole Swimming & Sauna: A Natural High!
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2016-02-20 08:44:55
Description:
Lakeuden Avantouimarit

Kyllä kylymä teköö hyvää – Yes, the cold does good! Image: http://www.lakeudenavantouimarit.net/

Season 2 Episode 32
I learn why swimming in ice-cold water after taking a sauna is better than sex or morphine! Jussi explains ALL the benefits of Avantouinti, before taking me swimming in the hole in the ice on a frozen pond. Yep, that’s right…

Guests: Jussi Mustikkamaa, Journalist

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Great view across the pond to the sauna. Image: Jari Asu

Great view across the pond to the sauna. Image: Jari Asu

Show Notes

For this episodes, I headed to Tanelinlampi, a man-made pond some 27–30 metres deep, which is located on the outskirts of Seinäjoki. It started life when gravel was dug as part of road-building work nearby, but is now one of the most popular fresh-water beaches in the area.

Jussi headed-up the committee that built the sauna atTanelinlampi with the help of grants from the EU. The sauna and ice-hole are maintained by the Lakeuden Avantouimarit. Although it IS a membership club, the sauna is also open to paying members of the public many days of the week.

It’s a large sauna, which Jussi explains could hold 40–50 people. When I visited there were at least 20 men and women using the sauna (and the pond.) It has a huge wood-burning kiauas, a block of stones about the size of an old Mini  </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Total Play: </td> <td></td> <td> 0 </td> </tr> </table> </form> <audio controls autoplay style= Your browser does not support the audio element.