I am a sophomore in high school and I was wondering if it would be worth it to get a altitude chamber to sleep in?
I am a sophomore in high school and I was wondering if it would be worth it to get a altitude chamber to sleep in?
That is something you should only worry about when you are approaching elite level.
For now, the best thing is to get in consistent higher mileage. Take your easy days easy and your hard days hard.
Go out and run 3-5 miles EASY every weekday morning. This in itself will help you improve leaps and bounds.
The more work you do, the better results you will get.
Altitude tent will give you miniscule improvements compared to just training more and training harder, as well as getting plenty of sleep. Recovery is EQUALLY as important as training.
Good luck, if you're willing to put in the work, you'll see results.
It requires you to spend 12-14 hours per day in it 7 days a week to get the benefits. I wouldn't recommend it unless you are committed to that. As the previous poster said, get to the elite level first, then consider altitude.
>>Altitude tent will give you miniscule improvements compared to just training more and training harder.
Although this sounds like it should really be the case (on the no pain no gain ideal), actually it isn't. If we very conservatively say you'll get at least 2% gain from just sleeping in a decent quality altitude tent (pretty much everyone i know got more than that), well that equates to a LOT of training.
But assuming you're planning on training anyhow, and more training is not necessarily better, chances are there isn't ANY amount of "more training" that'll give you the gains an altitude tent would.
I'm sure a lot go for the "wait till you're a pro before doing altitude training" but there'll always be some your age who have a tent already, or are fortunate enough to live at Boulder or park city.
Your choice.
it's worth a shot, as some are huge responders, others not so much.