Some questions about your sauna behaviour

[Horst]

Sauna & you

1) How often you bathe in a sauna?
2) Alone or with other people? With who?
3) What's the perfect temperature in a sauna for you?
4) Vihta or Vasta? Which word do you prefer?
5) What you usually drink in sauna or after it? Water? Beer?
6) Your nationality & gender?


Thanks for answers in advance

[ojanm]

1) When I feel like it. Maybe once per month, depends on the season. Mökki is the best place of course.
2) Alone, mostly. In the army I joined some random guys but I don't that anymore.
3) I think it depends on the humidity. 70-80 celsius or so is usually enough for me.
4) Neither. Vihta, if I have to choose one.
5) In sauna? Nothing. Afterwards something refreshing like water or lemonade.
6) I'm a 22-year old Finn.

Now, the topic starter should answer also.

[interleukin]

1) How often you bathe in a sauna?
2) Alone or with other people? With who?
3) What's the perfect temperature in a sauna for you?
4) Vihta or Vasta? Which word do you prefer?
5) What you usually drink in sauna or after it? Water? Beer?
6) Your nationality & gender?

1 about once a week
2 with other people. usually of same sex, but I do not mind if it is mixed
3 It depends a lot on the situation and on the ventilation. Warm enough to get that tingling feeling in your scalp, but not so warm that you can not sit for a while and enjoy it.
5 Water in the sauna. NOTHING with alcohol in it (I get dizzy if I try that). Alcohol afterwards is fine
6 Icelandic, female.

[Hank W.]

1) Depends. I've got a weekly turn, and one at the cottage, and then all kinds of public functions. Can be not for a month, can be daily...
2) Alone or with people, depends whose around, like if I'm at the mökki I seldom do it just for myself. As Ojanm, with 50 other guys in the army
3) Depends on the sauna. Around 80...
4) Vihta, I didn't know there was another word until I leaned that in school.
5) Beer, cold water, depends...
6) Native, feel me up if you dare.

[Matula]

Sauna & you

1) How often you bathe in a sauna?
2) Alone or with other people? With who?
3) What's the perfect temperature in a sauna for you?
4) Vihta or Vasta? Which word do you prefer?
5) What you usually drink in sauna or after it? Water? Beer?
6) Your nationality & gender?


Thanks for answers in advance

1) Maybe 10 times a year. During the summer at the cottage.
2) Alone. Seldomly with others.
3) 70-90 degrees Celsius.
4) Vihta as I'm from Western Finland.
5) In sauna, nothing. Afterwards beer.
6) Finnish and male.

[Horst]

Sauna & you

1) How often you bathe in a sauna?
2) Alone or with other people? With who?
3) What's the perfect temperature in a sauna for you?
4) Vihta or Vasta? Which word do you prefer?
5) What you usually drink in sauna or after it? Water? Beer?
6) Your nationality & gender?

1. About three times a week
2. Alone
3. 70 - 100c. It depends, if it's a stove-watertank-combo mofo then 100c
4. Vihta... I wonder if Vihtahousu(=Satan) has something to do with a sauna
5. Beer, non-alcohol beverages (muumi!)
6. Finnish male

Thanks for answers in advance

You are welcome!

[Jukka Suomi]

Sauna & you

1) How often you bathe in a sauna?
2) Alone or with other people? With who?
3) What's the perfect temperature in a sauna for you?
4) Vihta or Vasta? Which word do you prefer?
5) What you usually drink in sauna or after it? Water? Beer?
6) Your nationality & gender?

1. Ones a week
2. With my son
3. 80
4. Vasta
5. Ananas jaffa
6. Björklandic, male

[RA]

Sauna & you

1) How often you bathe in a sauna?
2) Alone or with other people? With who?
3) What's the perfect temperature in a sauna for you?
4) Vihta or Vasta? Which word do you prefer?
5) What you usually drink in sauna or after it? Water? Beer?
6) Your nationality & gender?

1. About 3 times a week
2. Sometimes alone, sometimes with my husband and/or with my daughter, with other relatives and close friends (usually female)
3. 70-90 celsius
4. Before I said vihta, but I moved to savo and learned how to say vasta
5. I don't drink anything in the sauna, but in between and after mostly water, sometimes a soda.
6. Kenyan-Finnish, female

[riksu]

Sauna & you

1) How often you bathe in a sauna?
2) Alone or with other people? With who?
3) What's the perfect temperature in a sauna for you?
4) Vihta or Vasta? Which word do you prefer?
5) What you usually drink in sauna or after it? Water? Beer?
6) Your nationality & gender?

1) usually once a week, during mökki-holiday more often
2) with my husband
3) 80° - 100° C
4) vihta - but we don't use this
5) after it I like cold water, before pregnancy sometimes a cold beer
6) german-finnish, female

[krash]

1) once a week
2) with partner
3) 70 -80c
4) dunno what it is
5) beer, water or o.j
6) male, english

[Mattlill2000]

1)3-4 times a week
2)Depends. At home, with the wife and/or with the kids. At the mökki, then its with everybody there.
3)70-80. That means to raise the heat, you throw on more water and its not dry at all. So many times I've been to a sauna were it is too hot and only a little water is thrown on the stones. It makes for a dry sauna which isn't as good as a wet one.
4)Non really. Vasta in the summer when a few guests prepare them.
5)Beer or pop.
6)Canadian male with Finnish roots.

[Mark I.]

1. Once a week, unless at some cottage with sauna, then it's every day.
2. At home alone, outside with others.
3. 70-80. IMO the most common error about sauna is people who think it must be 100 degrees.
4. As a kid I used vasta, but now also vihta is ok (though instinctively vasta would the word).
5. Usually nothing - well some water.
6. Male, Finn.

Ps. Just counted I'v been to sauna about 4500 times.

[Coren]

1) Once or twice a week
2) Alone
3) 95 C
4) Vihta
5) Anything, as long as it's cold
6) Finnish, male

[Horst]

4) dunno what it is

Vihta/vasta =

"Vasta/vihta, a strong wisp or bundle of birch twigs with the leaves left on them (only the Silver Birch, Betula pendula, is appropriate for this). It is immersed in warm water and then used to beat oneself or other people. This cleanses and exfoliates the skin and relaxes the muscles. Using a vihta also creates a pleasant, fresh birch odour to the sauna session." (wikipedia)

[adrianoitaly]

Sauna & you

1) How often you bathe in a sauna?
-> not very often, sometimes at the gym once a week..

2) Alone or with other people? With who?
-> with other guys from gym, or friends. never tried with girls still.

3) What's the perfect temperature in a sauna for you?
-> not very strong I am a newbie

4) Vihta or Vasta? Which word do you prefer?
-> I think I never used those

5) What you usually drink in sauna or after it? Water? Beer?
->when at cottage I had beer with my friends (between the saunas, before the lake eheh)

6) Your nationality & gender?
-> italian