Turning on the heat
A new workout type offers semi-privacy, flexibility and efficiency
Customers glisten with sweat as they go through a virtually-led exercise routine in an infrared-heated sauna chamber at HOTWORX, the new workout facility in Texarkana.
Intended to deliver maximum results in a small element of time, the services at HOTWORX can benefit a busy person looking to slip a workout or someone who wants to add something extra without taking up too much time.
“More workout, less time - that is what we are going for at HOTWORX,” said Shawna Wilburn, owner of HOTWORX at 3638 Richmond Road, near Small Cakes and Little Ceasars. “You burn massive amounts of calories in a shorter workout time as well as sweating out toxins from your body.”
HOTWORX facility offers virtually instructed exercise programs for users to experience the “many benefits of infrared heat absorption, while completing a 30-minute isometric workout or 15-minute high intensity interval training session,” according to a press release.
“As the infrared heat penetrates your body, causing you to sweat, the isometric postures further accelerate
detoxification by physically removing the toxins from your organs through muscle contraction. When your core body temperature rises, there is an annabolic effect that speeds up your metabolism. Another heated workout advantage is that less time is required for warm-ups in a heated studio. “
Infrared energy has the effect of strengthening and activating the regenerative processes in the human body, accelerating the workout recovery, the press release states.
“Two forms of exercise work very well inside of the HOTWORX infrared sauna, isometrics and high intensity interval training (HIIT). With HIIT, a short 15-minute routine with a cycle or row will provide just the right amount of workout results with heat and infrared energy.”
“It really is about more workout, less time,” said Wilburn. “Burning massive amounts of calories in a shorter timeframe, getting rid of toxins and the exercise in the infrared environment all combine to make it work. In addition, doing it in the infrared environment ensures a continued calorie burn up to an hour after the workout ends.”
Wilburn, co-owner with other members of her family, admits that she had trouble getting into a fitness routine before she found
HOTWORX.
But the flexibility and semi-privacy this facility offers was the thing she needed to establish a routine.
“I’ve been doing this myself for a couple of years,” she said. “I had been doing it for about a year when I decided to look into establishing HOTWORX in Texarkana.”