LIT Method Stealth Luxe Cedar XL Cold Plunge

What This Is

The XL version of LIT's stainless steel plunge, wrapped in cedar. Stainless matters here: a cold plunge is a tub that stays wet, cold and chlorinated or ozonated indefinitely, and cheap materials show it within a season.

Why Two Of These Are Going In Our Gym

When I asked LIT whether to take the standard or the XL for a commercial setting, their recommendation was direct: go XL. It holds an additional 50 gallons, accommodates users up to 6 feet 9 inches, and is large enough for the way a gym actually uses a plunge, which is back to back sessions with people of very different sizes.

We ordered two. One plunge creates a line; two creates a rotation.

Disclosure: We Bought This

Black Iron Athletics is a paying LIT Method customer. This unit is part of the recovery room we are building at the gym, bought with gym money at standard pricing. Nothing here was given to us. This page is a spec overview written from LIT's published information; the owner review publishes once the room is finished and the unit has real hours on it.

The Specs That Decide The Install

Plan the floor first. A filled plunge is over a thousand pounds before anyone gets in, which is a structural question, not a furniture question. Then plan the drain and the power for the chiller. Then plan the walking surface around it, because everyone who gets out is dripping.

Our cut sheets went to the architect and general contractor before the order was placed. If you are doing this in a house, the same sequence applies at a smaller scale.