Stéphane P. Dufour, Elodie Ponsot, Joffrey Zoll, Stéphane Doutreleau, Evelyne Lonsdorfer-Wolf, Bernard Geny, Eliane Lampert, Martin Flück, Hans Hoppeler, Véronique Billat, Bertrand Mettauer, Ruddy Richard and Jean Lonsdorfer "Exercise training in normobaric hypoxia in endurance runners. I. Improvement in aerobic performance capacity". J Appl Physiol 100: 1238-1248, 2006; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00742.2005 8750-7587/06
Latest research from France sponsored by the International Olympic Committee and published in The Journal of Applied Physiology shows 5% VO2 max improvement and 42% exercise until exhaustion improvement in Elite level runners with just 2 x 20 minute workouts in a hypoxic environment twice a week for 6 weeks.
This carefully controlled piece of research by Dufour et al. carried out on already highly trained athletes with a placebo controlled matched group doing the same training whilst breathing normal ambient air clearly shows the benefit of combining altitude workouts into an existing training schedule. |
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Stuke, Nadine; Hilbert, Michael; Shushakov, Vladimir; Maassen, Norbert (2004). Effect of Intermittent hypoxia in rest on endurance performances. Presented at the 9th annual congress of the European College Of Sport Science, Clermont-Ferrand 3-6 July 2004.
In a double-blind placebo controlled study, highly trained
athletes demonstrate astounding 40% anaerobic performance
boost (forearm exercise until exhaustion), and 20% aerobic
performance increase. |
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Effect
of IHT on Rowing Athletes. Chinese Academy of Science.
- Blood Lactate decreased from 9.45 mmol/l to 6.67 mmol/l
- Oxygen Consumption decreased from 4.3 ml/kg/min to 3.6 ml/kg/min
- Maximal Heart rate decreased from 182 beats/min to 177 beats/min.
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| Lincoln University,
New Zealand. Research concludes IHT was sufficient to elicit
changes in haematological indices that suggest an acceleration
of erythroiesis. |
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| The physical work capacity
of female athletes and its determining features. |
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| Classic study by Benjamin Levine and James
Stray-Gundersen "Live High, Train Low" |
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Contrasting Levin and Stray-Gundersen approach
is this study from Switzerland that proposes "Live Low,
Train High" |
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Martino, M., Myers, K., & Bishop, P. (1995). Effects of 21 days training at altitude on sea-level anaerobic performance in competitive swimmers. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 27, S7 (Abstract 37).
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Levine, B.D., & Stray-Gundersen, J. (1997). "Living high-training low": effect of moderate-altitude acclimatization with low-altitude training on performance. Journal of Applied Physiology, 83, 102-112. |
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M. Mizuno, C. Juel, T. Bro-Rasmussen, E. Mygind, B. Schibye, B. Rasmussen and B. Saltin. August Krogh Institute, University of Copenhagen , Denmark . "Limb skeletal muscle adaptation in athletes after training at altitude". J Appl Physiol 68: 496-502, 1990.
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Burtcher et. a. "Beneficial Effects of Short Term Hypoxia".
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Katayama et. al 1998. "The effects of Intermittent exposure to hypoxia during endurance exercise training on the ventilatory responses to hypoxia and hypercapnia in humans".
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Xiu-Feng Wu, LiQun He, Bao-Gang Fu and Zhao-Nian Zhou. Shanghai Institute of Physiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 200031, Shanghai. “Capacity of exercise increased by intermittent hypoxia in athletes”.
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Santander et. al. "Effects of Interval Hypoxic Training on subsequent responses to submaximal exercise at moderate altitude".
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Tatiana 2002. "Intermittent Hypoxia Research in the Former Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States: History and Review of the Concept and Selected Applications".
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