I have a new ( young ) coach. He includes breath control sets. Does any one else think this could be dangerous for older (56 years old) swimmers? My MD thought it was crazy. I have noticed quite a few Masters swimmers dying from strokes. An old coach of mine said USA Swimming had banned hypoxic training for kids for a while.
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The way I had it explained to be by my high school coach was this:
Hypoxic training is used more to train the muscles how to become more efficient at using the oxygen it has, by depriving the muscles of oxygen, you break the muscles down and when they rebuild they are supposed to be more efficient than before...Same kind of result you get from weight lifting cycles.
He never really said a whole lot about increasing lung capacity....
The way I had it explained to be by my high school coach was this:
Hypoxic training is used more to train the muscles how to become more efficient at using the oxygen it has, by depriving the muscles of oxygen, you break the muscles down and when they rebuild they are supposed to be more efficient than before...Same kind of result you get from weight lifting cycles.
He never really said a whole lot about increasing lung capacity....
