How much of a difference does altitude make? I asked the question in relation to Cole Hocker who doesn't train at it but what has the science shown the altitude affect can be in the mile/1500?
I'm curious about other events too. And if you want to include "high-low" do that as well.
If it's just placebo feel free to state your case.
I'm a big of fan of recommending "hi-lo" training, but I'm not aware of any "science" that looked at improvements using the mile/1500 as time trials. My favorite 1997 Stray-Gundersen used the 5000m and found about 3% faster performances for the amateurs in the study.
My gut feeling is that for the mile/1500m the benefit is not going to be more than about 1 second.
Factor increased risk of injury, higher elevation training, no to slight benefit for sea level athletes competing at sea level.
It has been hypothesized that one reason for decreased .VO(2max) in hypoxia could be the lower maximal exercise intensity achieved in incremental, time or distance trial tests. We hypothesized that (1).VO(2max) would be decre...
If blood doping improves performance then so will altitude training, as it similarly enhances aerobic capacity, although not to the same extent as blood doping. It is one of the reasons for Kenyan dominance in distance running (but only one of the reasons).
If blood doping improves performance then so will altitude training, as it similarly enhances aerobic capacity, although not to the same extent as blood doping. It is one of the reasons for Kenyan dominance in distance running (but only one of the reasons).
For Kenyans, it is hard to separate out the evolution effects of living at altitude versus effects of altitude training. So far other high altitude groups have not had anywhere near the success of the rift valley group. You do end up with a lot that level altitude and still run well but have the confounding factor that some do go back and do altitude camps..
as to how much epo, blood doping, and altitude help the best of the best is hard to say. It isn’t clear how close top guys can get to maxing out RBC naturally.
I don't know about training. But in meets held at altitude the only event that seems basically unchanged is the 800. The sprints and jumps benefit and 1500+ are worse.
How much of a difference does altitude make? I asked the question in relation to Cole Hocker who doesn't train at it but what has the science shown the altitude affect can be in the mile/1500?
I'm curious about other events too. And if you want to include "high-low" do that as well.
If it's just placebo feel free to state your case.
Steve Magness explains in Science of Running the components of VO2max and why some might not respond to altitude training. Joe Vigil also covers altitude training in Road to the top. Start from there.
