Altitude Training

Altitude training is a set of exercises that are aimed at increasing a person’s endurance and developing the body’s protective and adaptive reactions in a rarefied atmosphere. Raising to maximum heights is carried out under special conditions in sealed cabins (pressure chambers). Additionally, high loads for raising a high level of O2 production are visiting mountain camps, descending from Everest, flying in an airplane (flight Alaska - Oklahoma 1927). Stratification or decompression occupies a special place in it. It includes walking through the mountains, as well as staying at different heights.

In practice, such training, as a rule, is carried out in conjunction with mountaineering in the mountains, during the preparation of athletes for competitions.

The idea of ​​altitude training is based on the fact that a person cannot breathe oxygen if its concentration is less than 20%, i.e. 21% oxygen gives maximum effect. At lower levels, the concentration of hemoglobin in the blood begins to fall, and as a result, the production of red pigment, so the absorption of gas stops. And if there is less than two percent oxygen in the blood, oxygen starvation occurs. By analogy, gas can be considered a drug, the intake of which must be dosed

Features of high altitude training. Altitude training is a unique type of physical training of people, which is aimed at developing the adaptive mechanisms of the human body for survival and increasing its functionality in high altitude conditions.

One of the main tasks of high-altitude training is the development of adaptation to low air pressures (ba