Hypoxic Advice/Workouts--Not Your opinion of Hypox Efficacy

Well this article pretty strongly tells me theres something to gain out of hypoxic training. jap.physiology.org/.../733 Plus, I completely agree with Swim Stud, if your swimming longer events the more lung capacity you have to mentally and physically stay under longer off your walls in the 200 of any stroke the faster your going to be. And in a discussion with my pulmonary doctor and his team just recently, we were talking about the benefits of having better breath control in the pool--because I have had chronic lung problems and often breathe every 2-4strokes. It has shown that someone with better breathe control and breathing patterns in swimming tend to have a lower heart rate. The lower the heart rate the more apt one's body is for exercising/swimming at high intensities over longer periods of time. For example, Lance Armstrong has a resting heart rate of around 45...same as most elite marathon runners, and while its both a cause and effect of being in the shape they are in, on many levels their physiological make-up or altered makeup through proper training, that allows their heart rate to be so low, allows them to be such high caliber distance athletes. JH: you train low yardage anyways, so of course you wouldn't see the point in someone doing a hypoxic set thats longer than your entire workout, but criticizing someones training method seems to be quite hypocritical of you, since you found it so distasteful when others were criticizing your workout log. You clearly already have good breath control :applaud: and hats off to you--because I know I couldn't do a 50 no breath, probably ever, but certainly not as fast or comparably as fast as you can, but keep in mind that a lot of people here are asking questions and seeking advice because they know their own weaknesses and are seeking advice on how to better themselves as swimmers... Some people need hypoxic workouts, because they know they breathe way to much in ALL of their events (thats me.) others might not need that kinda workouts built into their training because they already are happy with how they are able to perform (breath control wise) in race scenarios. But until I am able to swim a full 50 freestyle in no breath whether that be in practice or a meet, I think I should probably keep doing these longer hypoxic sets and using the snorkel to build up some lung strength.

Well this article pretty strongly tells me theres something to gain out of hypoxic training. jap.physiology.org/.../733 Plus, I completely agree with Swim Stud, if your swimming longer events the more lung capacity you have to mentally and physically stay under longer off your walls in the 200 of any stroke the faster your going to be. And in a discussion with my pulmonary doctor and his team just recently, we were talking about the benefits of having better breath control in the pool--because I have had chronic lung problems and often breathe every 2-4strokes. It has shown that someone with better breathe control and breathing patterns in swimming tend to have a lower heart rate. The lower the heart rate the more apt one's body is for exercising/swimming at high intensities over longer periods of time. For example, Lance Armstrong has a resting heart rate of around 45...same as most elite marathon runners, and while its both a cause and effect of being in the shape they are in, on many levels their physiological make-up or altered makeup through proper training, that allows their heart rate to be so low, allows them to be such high caliber distance athletes. JH: you train low yardage anyways, so of course you wouldn't see the point in someone doing a hypoxic set thats longer than your entire workout, but criticizing someones training method seems to be quite hypocritical of you, since you found it so distasteful when others were criticizing your workout log. You clearly already have good breath control :applaud: and hats off to you--because I know I couldn't do a 50 no breath, probably ever, but certainly not as fast or comparably as fast as you can, but keep in mind that a lot of people here are asking questions and seeking advice because they know their own weaknesses and are seeking advice on how to better themselves as swimmers... Some people need hypoxic workouts, because they know they breathe way to much in ALL of their events (thats me.) others might not need that kinda workouts built into their training because they already are happy with how they are able to perform (breath control wise) in race scenarios. But until I am able to swim a full 50 freestyle in no breath whether that be in practice or a meet, I think I should probably keep doing these longer hypoxic sets and using the snorkel to build up some lung strength.