Re: Altitude acclimatisation

NO typo... some of us are not fortunate enough to be able to choose where we
live or where the competition is to take place. I live at sea level and the
regatta is at about 3500' above sea level. Just curious to know how to
minimise the detrimental effects.

What is the minimum time required to acclimatise sufficiently to remain
competitive?

"marcorow" <marcorow@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I don't know if that is a typo or if really meant to say that you will
go from training at sea level and go racing in altitude. Usually all
the researches in hte field are done in the other way around (training
in altitude and then racing at sea level). Anyway if that is correct
it might take up to a month for the complete adaptation, depending on
individual differences and the altitude you are racing at.
If you made a mistake and ment to say the other way around the lastest
research seems to indicate that the best approach is the so call HI-LOW
training, where you train at sea level and you recover in altitude.
The old method of training in altitude seems to create too many side
effects. The main one is the long time to adapt to the altitude,
immuno deficiency (see what happen with the German National team) and
the really short time of peak beneficts that you achieve when you go
back to sea level. The Hi-Low system allow you to train at the same
intensity that you normally have at sea level, but since the body try
to recover in altitude you also receive the beneficts that the altitude
training would give you. Also the beneficts of these method seesm to
last a little longer (althought that is not completely proved). A lot
of researches seems to prove that you can achieve similar results with
hypobaric tents (rooms).
Have a good day.
Marco



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