Training with oxygin mask

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Maso1947

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Will somebody with knowlege please answer this question for me.

I saw a picture on the Internet once ( not here ) of a guy on a tread mill and he was wearing an ozygin mask attached to a small green tank while training. What is the thinking behind that please. I have seen football players on the sidelines on TV using oxygin masks too.

Why do they do that. What are the benefits. Are their pros and cons to doing that. Is it the same stuff used for medical purposes...? Should someone with a home tread mill or elliptical trainer consider that expence...?
 
It was likely an altitude simulator. Higher altitude has lower air pressure and oxygen concentration, which causes a variety of changes to your cardiorespiratory system, and a lot of athletes want to simulate those changes to improve their performance.

However, any changes are acute, and as soon as you're back to regular altitude, the metabolic shift your body makes returns to normal. Generally, altitude training is mostly just effective if you have plans to compete at a high altitude, as then you'll be able to adjust faster.
 
Does that explain the sidelined football players too...? I saw them doing it at last months Superbowl so they couldn't have been training for their next game and they weren't responding to Madonna's performance.
 
Hmm, for them, I couldn't really say. They could be trying to temporarily adjust their bodies for the benefits of high altitude exposure, or it could be something completely different.
 
with regard to the football players, i'd say it was oxygen, to give them a boost to getting their breath back or just to pick them up a bit. or to give a boost to spo2 levels if they were low whioch might make them faint
 
Hi,

Generally using air high in O2 provides no long term benefits. To what you are referring too, I have never seen this happen in a football game but if it was the only benefit that could come out of it was trying to recover the player faster for their next rotation by minimizing the time they spent in EPOC. Specifically it would include quicker rates of lactate breakdown, restoration of PC and many other by-products.

Other uses where O2 is seen in sport is recovery, the use of O2 here is much more valuable as it helps recovery from injury.

In summation, the use of O2 will have no benefit to ones cardiorespiratory efficiency long term, and is therefore no use to the home tredmil.

Hope it answers your question,

Cheers.

fitnessadvisor.
 
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