Does ‘altitude training’ increase exercise performance in elite athletes?

2016 ◽  
Vol 101 (7) ◽  
pp. 783-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten Lundby ◽  
Paul Robach
2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (11) ◽  
pp. 792-795 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten Lundby ◽  
Gregoire P Millet ◽  
Jose A Calbet ◽  
Peter Bärtsch ◽  
Andrew W Subudhi

Author(s):  
Philo U. Saunders ◽  
Laura A. Garvican-Lewis ◽  
Robert F. Chapman ◽  
Julien D. Périard

High-level athletes are always looking at ways to maximize training adaptations for competition performance, and using altered environmental conditions to achieve this outcome has become increasingly popular by elite athletes. Furthermore, a series of potential nutrition and hydration interventions may also optimize the adaptation to altered environments. Altitude training was first used to prepare for competition at altitude, and it still is today; however, more often now, elite athletes embark on a series of altitude training camps to try to improve sea-level performance. Similarly, the use of heat acclimation/acclimatization to optimize performance in hot/humid environmental conditions is a common practice by high-level athletes and is well supported in the scientific literature. More recently, the use of heat training to improve exercise capacity in temperate environments has been investigated and appears to have positive outcomes. This consensus statement will detail the use of both heat and altitude training interventions to optimize performance capacities in elite athletes in both normal environmental conditions and extreme conditions (hot and/or high), with a focus on the importance of nutritional strategies required in these extreme environmental conditions to maximize adaptations conducive to competitive performance enhancement.


2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keren Constantini ◽  
Daniel P. Wilhite ◽  
Robert F. Chapman

2009 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 285-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Pialoux ◽  
Julien V. Brugniaux ◽  
Edmond Rock ◽  
Andrzej Mazur ◽  
Laurent Schmitt ◽  
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1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-29
Author(s):  
Pak Kwong CHUNG

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract in English only.In 1968, when the Summer Olympic Games were scheduled to be held in Mexico City, at an altitude of 2,300 meters above sea level, considerable attention was directed at the questions of how altitude would affect exercise performance. During the preparation for the Mexico City Olympics, many concerns existed about the possible beneficial effects of the lower pressure and air resistance at the altitude for events involving speed and power; and the possible detrimental effects of the reduced oxygen at the altitude for the endurance events. What are the acute physiologic responses to altitude? Can altitude training improve endurance performance at sea level? All such questions would be explored in this article.


2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (15) ◽  
pp. 923-925 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregoire P Millet ◽  
Robert F Chapman ◽  
Olivier Girard ◽  
Franck Brocherie

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gareth Turner ◽  
Barry W Fudge ◽  
Jamie S M Pringle ◽  
Neil S Maxwell ◽  
Alan J Richardson

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