New training secret?

this doesn't seem hard to do... give it a try and let us know!

I plan on it, but I can't right now for various reasons. I just wanted a reply from one of the exercise physiologists on here.

I have the hilarious image of kids passing out just as the gun goes off...

it is indeed proven i told that a year ago already they did a test with 2 peopel with the same fitness. Except for improving fitness it also improves memory.People where a lot more accurate as well. THe exercises the test guys had to do ranged from archin, learning words and then a test and mini bike parcours.It was so fun it stayed with me.

Many people have stated that breathing pure oxygen has no effect because your blood can only extract a certain amount from inhaled air. They forget that it likely can extract more if it doesn't have to sort through other molecules to find oxygen. When Bannister was testing himself on the treadmill he found that breathing pure oxygen when he was close to collapse made him recover almost instantly to full vigour.

I always take some long deep breaths before shorter races that involve severe oxygen debt. It does make you feel a bit dizzy, but don't you usually feel a bit shaky at the start? It goes away as soon as the gun goes off and it feels like it buys you a few more seconds before totally going into debt.

How hard would it be to come up with a hand held contraption that provides a small flow of pure oxygen while you are running a 3k-5k race?

Finding it wouldn't be too hard. They are actually selling canned oxygen now - http://www.thebigox.com/

I'd also like to know what the status is on the downing ROLAIDS (or TUMS) in large quantities before a reace theory (to supposedly buffer lactic acid a small amount).

That ones been around for awhile, and I dont recall seeing much debate on how credible it really is. Seems that people just generally agree that even if it does provide tangible benefits, the amount of tablets you would have ingest to provide this effect would be counterbalanced by the nautiousness and potential vomiting one may incur from downing 10 or 20 Rolaids (TM).

Actually, you might try looking up sodium bicarbonate. It works extremely well according to the studies (3 seconds in an 800, 5 in a 1500!), but has less effect on well trained individuals. All you have to do is consume a few spoons of baking soda before your race... yeah, that's the hard part. Baking soda tastes like crap, usually makes you sick, and gives you dry mouth. However, you can probably get used to it if you do it in practice.

Antacids have a similar effect since they are all calcium carbonate. Carbonate/bicarbonate are buffers. On a different thread last week people said that taking calcium before a race may inhibit the absorption of oxygen because it blocks iron or something, so who knows if taking the tums will really help.