GoPolar Wrapped 2025 ✨
❄️ 94,789 cold plunges
🥶 9,046 hours in freezing water
We love heat too…
🧖♂️ 75,795 sauna sessions
⏱️ 25,680 hours in the heat
🔥 Hottest temp hit: 115.9°C (240°F)
🌍 and we did this in 91 countries!
#sauna#coldplunge
today we’re launching GoPolar 2.0 🧊
track your cold plunges, sauna sessions, and watch your resilience grow.
we’re introducing:
- community challenges
- private groups & activity feeds
- garmin watch support
try it out… link below
A few very interesting things about sauna:
1) Sweat loss is insane...
My body is becoming adapted to sweating a TON. I can shed 40 oz of body weight in two 18 minute sessions with a plunge in the middle.
I weigh myself before the session with 2 full Nalgene bottles of water. Drink them both in 40 minutes and weigh myself with the empty bottles afterwards.
If I don't drink an electrolyte packet with 1000 mg salt, potassium and magnesium I feel like crap the next day. Dehydration hits hard.
2) Heart rate..
My resting heart rate is 43 when I sleep. When I get in the sauna its about 90. Over 18 minutes it works up to 120.
When I get out it pops to 140-160 just from standing up and getting in the 50 degree water. 3 minutes later it drops to 39. It is an insane feeling.
3) Sleep...
The exhaustion I feel when I lay in bed after a sauna session is very unique. Like I exercised for 5 hours or spent an entire day outside working.
My sleep is much much better.
4) It is a great social activity.
Deep conversation with a good friend in a long session is second to none. Not bad for a healthy activity.
I can see why this is so highly correlated with longevity. They say a 40% reduction in all-cause??
I think it stresses the body in a whole new way, which is good for the heart.
Feel fortunate to be surrounded by builders shaping our world. Perfect example: Opened the Mac App Store this morning to see @boomvisionco by @robjama featured. Last week, saw @GoPolarApp by @preshdkumar on the Garmin app store.
I admire my species’ ability to build things.
Lot more to build…
v1 of GoPolar is now available for Garmin watches!
Track your Cold Plunge & Sauna sessions
Seamlessly sync into our iOS app for detailed metrics, challenges, community, and more 🧊