Altitude training Altipower Hypoxicator hypoxic tent altern.

Improve your sporting performace for sea level competition and preacclimatise to altitude, minimise acute mountain sickness (AMS)

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Sports

Tags:

• hypoxic
• training
• altitude
• mountain
• sickness
• performance
• climbing
• Everest
• Kilimajaro

[WildernessTrekking]

@bustedbojangles I think the dust mask would reduce the flow rate but not the % of oxygen. It's all about air density as you say. I remember something to do with temperature and its effect on air pressure or density. Maybe the device heats the breath by constricting in thin tubes and then releases the warmed air immediately into the mouth? Anyhow, losing acclimatisation is pretty quick so you would have to wear this mask full time! Total rubbish.

[bustedbojangles]

How does it simulate the air at altitude if it dilutes the oxygen percentage from 21 down 9? There is 21% oxygen everywhere in the atmosphere, there is just less air overall the higher you go up. So why can you not just breath through a dust mask? That would do the same thing that they say there $1,000.00 machine does.

[chungdha]

That thing is huge!

[Ninearm]

No, you are correct. But this is by no means a substitute for real hard work. Think of it as a way to improve your breathing, if you dont belive it, just look at the times Haile Gebraselaise has on marathon. He does real hard work, but these goals are pretty damn unreachable unless living on the kind of altitude that he does

[sharknin]

There is no substitute for hard work

[reynmike]

Nice hypoxic trainer for about $1000, which compares to other less portable solutions for $7000 to $10,000. But there are cannisters/cartridges you'll need to replace. When you do the math, this is a great solution for people who don't need to use a hypoxic trainer year-round. I'm considering buying one to use the month before my once-a-year Walt Disney World Marathon. They also have a mask with a strap BTW.