The Muscle Lounge

The Muscle Lounge

Recover faster, move better, and feel ready for your next session. The Muscle Lounge is Chaalk Box’s dedicated recovery space designed to help prime you for your session, or help you recover and reset before your next one.

What’s inside:

Infrared Saunas

What it is
A dry sauna that uses infrared panels to warm the body directly rather than heating the surrounding air to high temperatures.

How it works
Gentle radiant heat increases tissue temperature and local blood flow. This warmth reduces passive muscle and joint stiffness and promotes a parasympathetic (“rest and recover”) response, which many people find supports relaxation and sleep quality.

Why use it

• Increases skin and intramuscular blood flow
• Reduces perceived muscle and joint stiffness
• Lowers pain ratings and improves function in some musculoskeletal conditions
• Promotes relaxation and parasympathetic activity; many users report improved sleep quality
• Transient reductions in blood pressure and improved vascular comfort after sessions
• May reduce perceived post-exercise soreness and improve recovery ratings

NormaTec Dynamic Compression (arms, hips, legs)

What it is
Pneumatic sleeves that apply sequential, gradient compression that pulses and holds from the extremity toward the torso.

How it works
The wave-like pressure pattern promotes venous return and lymphatic movement. This helps shift pooled fluid, which can reduce the sensation of limb heaviness.

Why use it

• Enhances venous return and lymphatic drainage; helps reduce limb swelling/heaviness
• Lowers perceived muscle soreness after exercise
• May expedite recovery of strength/power at certain time points
• Can improve range of motion following fatiguing sessions
• Increases feelings of readiness/leg freshness before the next session

Massage Guns

What it is
Handheld devices that deliver rapid, small-amplitude pulses (percussive therapy) to soft tissue.

How it works
Percussion increases local circulation and temporarily reduces muscle tone and tenderness via mechanical stimulation of receptors in the skin and muscle. Users often experience short-term improvements in range of motion and a reduction in perceived soreness.

Why use it

• Acutely increases joint range of motion without impairing force output
• Reduces perceived muscle stiffness and delayed-onset muscle soreness (24–72 h)
• Increases local blood flow and tissue temperature
• Target hard-to-reach areas in a controlled, time-limited way.

Keen to know more?

The Muscle Lounge is available as an affordable membership add-on. Drop-in sessions are also available. 

Email us at info@chaalkbox.com.au for more details