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Case Study

University of Texas: Football Training Facility, Austin, TX

Design for Leisure recently collaborated with the University of Texas football sports medicine staff to install a custom KLAFS sauna in the team’s training facility. Completed just in time for the 2024 season, the sauna became part of the program’s cutting-edge recovery strategy which helped the Longhorns reach the College Football Playoffs.

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In 1924, Finnish athletes dominated the Paris Olympics, their success, in part, was credited to the power of sauna bathing. This sparked global curiosity about sauna’s role in athletic performance and, today, that interest continues with research confirming the benefits of contrast bathing and more elite teams integrating saunas into their training and recovery routines.
The custom KLAFS sauna, designed and built by Design for Leisure, features a KLAFS Bonatherm heater—an underbench heating system that maximizes bench space in any sauna.

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