How to Choose Your First Recovery Treatment If You've Never Tried Any

Walk into BE SUPERHUMAN for the first time and it can feel like a lot to take in all at once.

Cold chambers, pressurised oxygen pods, red light panels, compression boots, IV drips, if you’ve never tried any of it before, working out where to start is a genuinely fair question.

The good news is you don’t need any specialist knowledge to make a sensible first choice.

Rather than picking whatever’s trending, it helps to start with what your body’s actually asking for right now, how comfortable you are with new sensations, and what you’re hoping to get out of the visit.

Here’s a simple way to work through it.

Step 1 : Start With What You’re Actually Feeling

The most efficient way to choose is to match your main complaint to the treatment built around it.

If you feel physically wound tight, stressed, or generally worn down, hyperbaric oxygen therapy tends to be a good starting point. A full hour in a pressurised chamber, with no phone, no notifications, gives your body a proper stretch of uninterrupted time while supporting increased oxygen delivery. It’s a slow, calm experience rather than an intense one.

If you’re dealing with sore or heavy legs, from a long run, a long flight, or simply a long day on your feet, compression therapy is built for exactly that. Pneumatic boots apply sequential pressure up your legs, mimicking your body’s natural muscle pump to help move fluid and ease that dull, heavy ache.

If you need a fast energy lift or you’re dealing with general brain fog, whole body cryotherapy is the quickest option available. A few minutes in the cold chamber tends to leave people feeling noticeably more alert and lighter almost immediately after stepping out.

If your skin’s looking a bit tired or you want to support general cellular recovery, red light therapy is a gentle, completely painless option, just standing or lying in front of a warm red panel for around 15 minutes.

If you’re feeling run down, dehydrated, or generally depleted, IV nutritional therapy delivers fluids and nutrients directly into your bloodstream, which tends to help considerably faster than trying to catch up through food and drink alone.

Step 2 : Think About Your Comfort Level With New Sensations

It’s worth being honest with yourself about what you’ll actually find relaxing versus what might leave you more tense than when you arrived.

If intense physical sensations aren’t your thing, it’s probably best to skip cryotherapy on your first visit and start with compression therapy or red light therapy instead, both are gentle, and neither asks much of you physically.

If you’re prone to feeling claustrophobic in enclosed spaces, our cryotherapy chambers use clear doors with your head remaining outside the cold zone throughout, which tends to feel far more manageable than people expect. Red light therapy is also a good alternative if enclosed spaces aren’t for you at all.

Step 3 : A Few Things That Make Your First Visit Easier

Drink some water before you arrive, particularly if you’re trying cryotherapy or IV therapy, since good hydration supports how well your body responds either way.

Wear something comfortable and easy to change out of, athletic wear or leggings for compression, and minimal clothing for cryotherapy so the cold can reach your skin properly.

And tell your therapist it’s your first time, they’ll happily adjust timing or walk you through exactly what to expect rather than assuming you already know.

Start Small, Stay Consistent

You don’t need to try everything on your first visit. Pick whichever treatment matches how you’re actually feeling right now, see how your body responds, and build from there.

Most of our regulars started with exactly one treatment before working out which combination genuinely suits them, and that’s a perfectly sensible way to begin.

If you’re still not sure where to start, our team is happy to talk it through with you before you book anything.