Converting an apartment to an altitude chamber?

jamin wrote:

Is this possible? Makes more sense now with remote work. Would have to get my landlord to approve it. Is there some type or "oxygen sucker" device you can purchase online?

There is an “oxygen sucker” born every minute...

Seal the windows and doors and pump nitrogen into apartment , keep running on treadmill until you collapse.

Paramedics will come clean up when the neighbours report the smell.

Wouldn't it be easier to just run a few more miles every day?

it can be done with burning candles to deplete the oxygen level.

Why don't you just remote work from Flagstaff?

Yes you can use altitude generators. The problem is you need several of them to simulate altitude for an entire room as opposed to just a tent and they are expensive. On the plus side you don't need landlord approval.

oldschoollrc wrote:

Why don't you just remote work from Flagstaff?

Yep. It would be a lot cheaper to remote work from Flag, Boulder, Santa Fe, wherever and Jamin would probably save on rent over seattle living in these places. Even if he had to fly to Seattle for an occasional in person meeting or work, it'd still be cheaper.

Altitude can be beneficial, but not as beneficial as training harder.

jamin wrote:

Is this possible?

Probably.

jamin wrote:

Makes more sense now with remote work.

For what?

jamin wrote:

Would have to get my landlord to approve it.

Ask your landlord.

jamin wrote:

Is there some type or "oxygen sucker" device you can purchase online?

There's a sucker born every minute.

jamin wrote:

Is this possible? Makes more sense now with remote work.

Move to high altitude if you can work remotely.

Are you looking for an edge help you shatter the 27 minute barrier for 8K?

You can get altitude beds. Sleep high is all you need.

Moron#3 wrote:

Jamin is not a bad runner. Jamin, in my view, could become a woman and compete for a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team. This place would go crazy. Can you imagine a black front page with the female Jasmine locking in a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team? Greg could then get a job writing the screen play.

Everything in this post seems plausible except the final sentence. Even in a world primed to love a movie about a m2f transgender runner who finally finds happiness for embracing her true inner self, it would still be an awful script.

Didn’t you move to Colorado? Isn’t the elevation there enough for you?

If you have a gas stove then turn all the burners and the oven on high. That’ll quickly reduce the amount of O2 in your apartment. You want to get one of those blood O2 monitors. Then measure your 02 level until you reach your target for the elevation you need to simulate. Then start turning the burners down until you achieve an equilibrium between your target O2 level and the burn rate of your stove. If you don’t have a gas stove then 4 or 5 kerosene space heaters in your apartment should do the trick.

Let us know how it goes. You’ll probably get headaches for a while and brain damage. Yeah a whole lotta brain damage.

It would probably have to be foam sealed but I see no reason why you couldn't!

It could give you the last little drop to reach the highest potential. Important for being world class, but not under that IMO. A guy in Norway studied the effect of 5 times 50min of easy cycling for 5 weeks for a group of aspiring Norwegian cyclists. They added an evening spinning training in a basement room keeping close to 40deg. The intensity was very low, maybe just 60% of max HR. The body had to work hard to cool it such that a chunk of the blood was used for cooling rather than bring oxygen to the muscles and thus after some weeks the body started producing more red blood cells and voila it increased comparative to a 4 week altitude training camp.

That would be the poor mans altitude training. Go invest in some wet suit, woolen cap, gloves, heat up the bathroom, put the spinning bike there and spin away easy watching netflix for a month and continue this...

That sounds like a good way to get a nasty rash. Wetsuit in the bathroom?

I do like your hot room idea though.

snakes on a plane on a jet ski wrote:

That sounds like a good way to get a nasty rash. Wetsuit in the bathroom?

I do like your hot room idea though.

Ok I did not think too much around the wet suit, but in fact pro cyclist teams have made heat suits to do this training anywhere not needing a room. They do this on a regular basis to keep the hemo high...

Still the gain is maybe small compared to enough milage, quality in training, etc, etc, which mortals need to do first before topping it with heat training

What is the goal is to raise the hemo and not to train in "thin air" at high altitude. That has some drawbacks, like the pace goes down at the same intensity, etc, but the goal is to raise the hemo and to do that one need the body to produce more. It seems that both 4 weeks in altitude and 4-5 weeks doing low intensity heat-training both makes the body produce more red cells and the hemo goes up. The impact of the heat-training is low due to the very low intensity and the regular training can go on as normal with no alteration of pace vs intensity. Of course if I suddenly started spinning 5x50min in 40deg, I would need some time to adapt, but I guess over time it is not worse than cycling 15 km a day flat and easy when commuting.