Please run far away as fast as you can from the Training Mask.

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Seen a few roadies this past summer wearing training masks on a MUP going 15 mph. Explain that please? O_o

where? pretty please, i need a good chuckle

^^^^This.

The mask will limit your ability to go hard, making your training less effective.

As far as simulating being at altitude, it's living at altitude (not training at altitude) that causes the beneficial adaptation.

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Thanks for the information

So wear it all the time - in the shower, on a date, thru airport security... that's what I want to see for commitment!

I hate to say, but this is possibly what the mask could do. Apparently at least the one in this study causes re-breathing of your own CO2, which induces hypoxemia.

They apparently only tested them during exercise, but possiby if you wear it all night it could induce a slightly hypoxic state? No idea if that's the same kind of hypoxic state that induces aerobic adaptation (more CO2 is different than less O2?) but it's possible?

The only competitive edge you'll get is at looking like an even bigger ass hat than the rest of us already do in compression socks and lycra.

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I'm also in the run, don't walk, away from this.

No, it's not the same. I see what you're getting at in terms of displacing O2 with the CO2, but you don't want to re-breathe CO2. You're potentially moving into asphyxiation territory, unless someone tested these to ensure that can't happen (and I'm just hazarding a guess, they weren't). It's the lower partial pressure of O2 (due at altitude to lower overall pressure) that your body responds to, so you're partially right there, but the mask is a bad way to get that. CO2 doesn't really factor into the biochemistry of red blood cell production--it might affect blood pH, stress response, and buffering capacity (just a wild guess), but that's not really what they're marketing or what you're necessarily after. Maybe some of the other biochem folks will chime in if I'm a bit off. -J

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Some info and a study here:

http://ylmsportscience.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/wearing-elevation-training-mask-effects.html

I'm sure you're right. I was just playing troll/devil's advocate.

No way I'd get one of these things given the current state of research on them.

The only way to look like a bigger asshat than wearing one of these is to run a GoFundMe to buy one.

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There you go. Your diaphragm will get JACKED! but you will still run slowly, which is ok b/c that allows you to show it off. ;-)
Thanks for googling it for me. -J

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