What would happen if you slept in an altitude tent, at altitude, while wearing an altitude mask?

Gonna get high, high, high....

The altitude tent would keep the altitude out and the mask would equalize with the tent.

Altitude tents are a joke because the rest of the time you are at the elevation of wherever you live. That 6-8 hours you spent sleeping in one won't be enough to benefit you if the rest of the day you are going on about your daily routine.

Sherpa Laughing wrote:

Altitude tents are a joke because the rest of the time you are at the elevation of wherever you live. That 6-8 hours you spent sleeping in one won't be enough to benefit you if the rest of the day you are going on about your daily routine.

What if you stay inside and play video games all day? Would that be enough to help you become a better runner?

Isn't that what the Salazar gang does?

I think one of the benefits is that you would never have sex.

Jane Robertson wrote:

Any benefits combined?

You do realize that altitude masks don’t really simulate altitude? It’s about as effective as holding your breath.

Alan

Jane Robertson wrote:

Any benefits combined?

Same thing that would happen if you got a tattoo of a butt, on your butt ON your butt.

theJeff wrote:

Sherpa Laughing wrote:

Altitude tents are a joke because the rest of the time you are at the elevation of wherever you live. That 6-8 hours you spent sleeping in one won't be enough to benefit you if the rest of the day you are going on about your daily routine.

What if you stay inside and play video games all day? Would that be enough to help you become a better runner?

Ignore the other poster, the altitude tents that don't work are cheap ones not used properly. If you sleep 9-10 hours per night at 5000m, you can simulate 2000m above sea level. As for face masks they harm your health.

Double the altitude equipment= double the fake altitude= double the fake benefit.

You’re welcome.

what would happen if you farted in an altitude tent while wearing and altitude mask?

Fun fact: An increase in altitude no matter the means will have zero effect on your taint.

atmosperic air contains 21% oxygen. at altitude, you are breathing the same air and it still contains 21% oxygen, but there is less oxygen available because the air itself is at a lower pressure and there is, therefore, less of it.

the basic premise behind altitude acclimatisation is that by spending time in a reduced-oxygen environment your body becomes more efficient at transporting oxygen, so that when you return to sea level to compete, you are able to utilise a greater percentage of the available oxygen, with the complementary assumption that this will make you run faster.

it is also worth noting that it is not just the quantity of oxygen in the air, but the pressure at which that oxygen is supplied. a fall in inspired oxygen pressure reduces the driving pressure for gas exchange in the lungs and in turn produces a cascade of effects right down to the level of the mitochondria, the final destination of the oxygen.

the situation at altitude, where you have low oxygen because of low pressure, is called hypobaric hypoxia. altitude tents seek to simulate this at sea level by supplying air at the same pressure as at sea level, but with a reduced oxygen content, usually 15%. this normal pressure low oxygen scenario is called normobaric hypoxia.

because of the difference in pressure, there is a lively debate in the physiology and exercise community as to whether normobaric hypoxia (altitude tents) confers the same advantages as hypobaric hypoxia (going to altitude), but in the context of the OP's question it doesn't matter whether an altitude tent works or not. what matters is that you would be taking low-oxygen air to altitude, where, due to the lower pressure, it will have, effectively, even less oxygen than the atmospheric air outside your tent. since all you are doing is depriving yourself of even more oxygen you would almost certainly make yourself very ill very quickly.

cheers.

you would be very high

You would enter a portal into the mind of John Malkovich

If you did it for a month I'm pretty sure you could break 2 hours in the marathon. Try it and report back.

Beavis wrote:

Jane Robertson wrote:

Any benefits combined?

Same thing that would happen if you got a tattoo of a butt, on your butt ON your butt.

I literally cried laughing at this answer, especially realizing that someone took the time to concoct this answer to a training question.

wineturtle wrote:

Isn't that what the Salazar gang does?

No. They live in pressurized cabins.

But the above lister is correct about it being silky, and much more efficient by just moving to a higher elevation.

To answer the o.p, you would only get the benefit of the geographic air that you are located in, which is stronger than the other 2 methods anyways.