First Sauna Experience

Being enrolled at Fitness First gives me the liberty of using all the facilities and services the gym has to offer. That includes the use of gym equipments, materials, and classes and also the sauna. I have tried most of the equipments and attended some classes but one thing I wish to try was the sauna. To be honest, I am not at my comfortable state when I am inside the men’s locker room. I guess for some, they know the reason why. I saw some men that go inside the sauna room just with their underwear on. They can also loiter along the paths of the locker room with just their undies on. I can’t seem to get the courage on walking in front of them almost naked.

Not until I had the chance of letting my best friend KC in. I forgot to mention, being a member also allows you to send a friend inside and use the gym as a guest. So I invited KC to join me. I guided him in using the gym equipments and all but behind our minds, we really want to jump in the sauna room to look for boys (ahaha!). After our work out, we went straight inside the sauna (which KC is thrilled on doing) to have our first sauna together. This happens to be KC’s first time as well. Both of us are new to this so we don’t know what to expect inside.

I covered myself with my shower towel while KC flaunted his body with just his undies on. Saunas in Fitness First are separated in two; dry sauna and the steam. We tried the dry sauna first since few people are inside. We are not aware that you need to wet yourself before entering the dry sauna just so you can tolerate the heat. Just after 5 or 7 minutes, we decided to go out and wet ourselves (which I guess is already late). Next, we entered the steam sauna. It is much bigger than the dry sauna. At first, I had some difficulty in breathing since the room is filled with just steam. It was much hotter than that of the dry sauna. But I feel more relax and the heat became more tolerable since we wet ourselves before getting in.

I am glad I was able to do this with KC. That made me overcome my fear and at this point, I can go to the sauna by myself. I really wish we could this again, I really do. But for now I am enjoying sauna alone.