Hypoxic Advice/Workouts--Not Your opinion of Hypox Efficacy
Former Member
Discusing Hypoxic sets with a freind, can anyone suggest a good hypoxic set for me.
I'm doing 3500-4000 3x a week and a short sprint workout on the weekend. I will not likely add another day to my schedule.
What's a good starting workout, and also where in my workout should I do this? Do you mix it up e.g. hard interval set then a hypox or hypox and then a pace set.
I am guessing mixing is a good thing but what's a good start point for a set and intervals for this? BR and FR being my stronger strokes.
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What, other than your own personal observations and feelings, do you have to support this statement?
I don't think anyone has identified a unique physiological response in the lungs or the muscles to hypoxic training. A quick search on Google Scholar found me an article titled Intermittent Hypoxic Training: Fact and Fancy, which has this to say:
... rather than intensifying the training stimulus, training at altitude or under hypoxia leads to the opposite effect - reduced speeds, reduced power output, reduced oxygen flux - and therefore is not likely to provide any advantage for a well-trained athlete.
So really the only thing you would need hypoxic training for is to learn a specific breath-holding skill, which is to say that you want to create a nervous system adaptation rather than a lung/muscle adaptation. I can think of two important breath-holding skills for swimming: the 50 freestyle and underwater dolphin kicking. Neither one of these are very similar to the kinds of sets people usually do for their hypoxic training.
What, other than your own personal observations and feelings, do you have to support this statement?
I don't think anyone has identified a unique physiological response in the lungs or the muscles to hypoxic training. A quick search on Google Scholar found me an article titled Intermittent Hypoxic Training: Fact and Fancy, which has this to say:
... rather than intensifying the training stimulus, training at altitude or under hypoxia leads to the opposite effect - reduced speeds, reduced power output, reduced oxygen flux - and therefore is not likely to provide any advantage for a well-trained athlete.
So really the only thing you would need hypoxic training for is to learn a specific breath-holding skill, which is to say that you want to create a nervous system adaptation rather than a lung/muscle adaptation. I can think of two important breath-holding skills for swimming: the 50 freestyle and underwater dolphin kicking. Neither one of these are very similar to the kinds of sets people usually do for their hypoxic training.
