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RecoveryFeb 5, 2026

The Science of Recovery: How Float Therapy Enhances Fitness

The Science of Recovery: How Float Therapy Enhances Fitness

Performance is built in recovery, not just in the session. Float therapy offers a uniquely complete form of it, physical, neurological and mental, in a single hour.

Magnesium and weightlessness

Suspended in half a tonne of Epsom salt, the body floats free of gravity. Muscles release, joints decompress, and magnesium absorption supports recovery while the nervous system shifts firmly into rest-and-repair.

Stack it with a Red Light Therapy Massage Pod

A pre-float Red Light Therapy Massage Pod session warms and loosens tissue first, making the float that follows even more effective.