Does Simulated Altitude Training Work? - Joe Goes Through Hypoxia Agony To Find Out 

People will gladly pay for placebo.

@@stevengr4 If it makes you faster it a win win.

I'd suggest the study was very unscientific so that the zero benefit from this training was not shown up.

Spend the money on a good coach, train regularly. Done

They restrict your breathing. They don't reduce the amount of oxygen in the air you breathe.

Exactly, and if training high, only do very short hard anaerobic efforts. That's to negate the lack of oxygen, as vo2 efforts aren't effective. So then, what's the point lol

it's normal they don't have research to back of their claims. Since the litterature is clear on it : there is no permanent/long term physiological benefits or adaptations by training high.

So it’s not much of an increase in hemoglobin, I work at a place similar to this in Calgary Canada. One of the reasons we see such good results is simply when as you train at altitude you get higher oxidative stress at any given workload. So that translates to increased stress on the energy systems but less stress on the muscular systems therefore you can recover faster, and the quality of the sea level workouts can be better. Or that you get the extra stress on the oxidative system that are just harder to reach at training at sea level. Exact mechanism at work here is being studied a lot right now, I’m not an expert yet compared to others out there but we know it shows results. And there is a ton of other applications to this type of training.

Yeah unfortunately the evidence is 'lacking' at best, with LHTL having a stronger argument of the two - 1. Lundby C, Millet GP, Calbet JA, Bärtsch P, Subudhi AW. Does “altitude training” increase exercise performance in elite athletes? Br J Sports Med. 2012;46(11):792-795. doi:10.1136/bjsports-2012-091231.

That's a good theory John, I hope to see some evidence to support it soon!

That's interesting. I'd be keen to hear more about this. What is the center you work for in Calgary?

Lots of MMA fighters and boxers (including Anthony Joshua) use altitude masks: altitude-mask.com/

I grew up at sea level in Puerto Rico. When I was training for the Central America and Caribbean high school track and field championships in 2009 (that were hosted in altitud in Mexico) I bought a snorkeling pipe cut out the mouth piece and used it 2-3 times a week to do workouts while breathing through it. It was dirt cheap, not scientific at all and super dreadful. But it got the job done in restricting the ammount of air (thus oxigen) i could breath while working out. I still blew up like a mofo and ran 40 seconds slower than my PR fo the 3k so i cant say it worked lol but it was the best idea I had that I could afford. Maybe it goes to show that its not as simple as just restricting the amount of air u breath

What i replied above to a similar comment. ..... I grew up at sea level in Puerto Rico. When I was training for the Central America and Caribbean high school track and field championships in 2009 (that were hosted in altitud in Mexico) I bought a snorkeling pipe cut out the mouth piece and used it 2-3 times a week to do workouts while breathing through it. It was dirt cheap, not scientific at all and super dreadful. But it got the job done in restricting the ammount of air (thus oxigen) i could breath while working out. I still blew up like a MoFo and ran 40 seconds slower than my PR for the 3k so i cant say it worked lol but it was the best idea I had that I could afford. Maybe it goes to show that its not as simple as just restricting the amount of air u breath, or maybe we should have more ppl try it for longer period of time to see if there are any measurable differences.

You'll be pleased to know that there'll be a Jack Luke video going up some time tomorrow. Regrettably, it will not include scenes of him hurting himself during an FTP test.

Haha, the last two years have aged me terribly! Thanks for watching, Joe.

@@bikeradar my mistake, I thought this video was out our yesterday. Oops...

It definitely wouldn't stand up as hard science, as Joe suggests at the end of the video, but it would have been interesting to have a control rider of similar ability go through the same training plan, without the hypoxia, to see how their performance compared.