KNES 373 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Lactic Acid, Fraction Of Inspired Oxygen, Red Blood Cell
12 Apr 2019
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Knes 373 lecture 31 altitude and hypoxia. 10 days can give you a meaningful benefit and be able to see differences. Eventually can start really having an impact on one"s ability to exercise and their mental function, and even eventually hindering normal physiological function: can potentially become life threatening (somewhere around 6000-7000m, more dangerous without acclimatization. Challenge: decreased training quality (can"t train as hard because you"re up there). Even when you"re acclimatized, your training won"t be as great quality as if you had been at sea level. Live high - train low (descend the mountain each day to train but live there so you have that exposure. Benefits: potentially increase quality of training if appropriate venue can be found: artificial altitude = sleeping in a hypoxic tent at night and exercise with hypoxic gas during the day. Italian olympic committee has banned this: can also try hypoxic gases (decreased oxygen, but!
