According to the sauna expert, the only thing related to Finnish sauna bathing in the picture is the stove, which is probably made in Finland.
Finns are a nation of saunas. Nothing cleanses a week’s layer of dirt like relaxing in the hot springs upstairs in the middle of nowhere, many might say.
That’s why many people rubbed their eyes when they came across a picture circulating on Twitter over the weekend of a serious man with a ravenous face breaking almost every imaginable sauna practice familiar to Finns.
Foreign fans seem to be bitten by the image. It has been the subject of many comments in posts noting Tate’s extreme concentration. Tate is even compared to a monk.
The Finns, on the other hand, let Tate hear their praise, often with humorous remarks.
\”Andrew Tate considers himself the greatest alpha male in the world, but he sits in a 50-degree sauna on a children’s board in shorts and a towel,\” laughed the humor account Very Finnish Problems, among others.
– My culture is not your outfit. Get over it, Andrew Tate, he concluded his tweet.
– You know it is not ok to let farts in the sauna.
Saunologist: “Sitting in the sauna with a frown on your face and waiting for it to get hot”
According to Liikkanen, a 50-degree sauna is too cool. He himself has applied the recommendation of the International Sauna Association as a sauna temperature of 65–100 degrees.
Andrew Tate’s towel on the hips is also not part of the Finnish sauna tradition.
– The key thing in sauna is to sweat and cleanse yourself. Artificial textiles, such as swimwear, do not work very well as sauna clothes, says Liikkanen.
However, the sauna expert points out that Tate’s sauna is most likely not located in Finland. For example, in Central Europe, a sauna in the style of the picture could very well be possible.
Therefore, the sauna specialist is not very surprised by Tate’s choice of the place on the lowest shelf of the sauna, or the somewhat impractical location of the sauna far away from the sauna.
Perhaps the only Finnish thing in the picture is the stove, which, according to Liikkanen, is probably domestically made.
– This doesn’t really correspond to the Finnish image of a sauna, but maybe it can correspond to someone’s image of a sauna.
– This perhaps reflects more about dry saunas. There is a determined expression, as he usually has anyway. When you have a forehead, you sit in the sauna and wait for it to get hot, Liikkanen states.
Tate suspected of human trafficking
Andrew Tate was arrested at the end of last year in Romania on suspicion of, among other things, human trafficking and several other crimes. He has pleaded not guilty.
Tate was released from pretrial detention to house arrest at the end of March.
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