During monday night football last night the announcers were talking about a special type of mouth piece that the New Orleans Saints use that somehow improves flexibility, power, and oxygen flow. Test show that vertical leap, power, and overall performance are better when wearing one of these things. If power is increased while wearing this, wouldn't it be useful to wear one of these things for swimming? I don't want to get in a "tech" argument but I thought this mouthpiece is pretty cool.
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Three systems carry oxygen ultimately to the cell: the breathing, the exchange in the lungs, and the blood circulation. Most of the air you breathe in is not used at the alveolar level, so there is always a surplus there. Unless you have emphysema or some other lung disease your lung will process all the oxygen that it can. Then the blood will carry it to the cells where they will be used. When you run hard, or sprint in swimming, your breathing rate goes up, your heart rate goes up and all systems coordinate to get more oxygen to you cells. Eventually the system will start breaking up, mostly at the cellular level, where there is a maximum speed of oxygen processing. So what will eventually make you slow down is not your heart rate or breathing, but the complete inability of the cells to metabolize more that is needed. Even if you had pure oxygen, you wouldn't go faster. Oxygen is beneficial when there is a problem, a disease, a lack of oxygen, but having more of it won't make you faster or make more of it available at cellular level. In other words, those nose strips are good for snoring sometimes, they look good and the people who make them make lots of money and the pros who use them (in a racing car?) also make lots of money. This is snake oil medicine, nothing to gain from it. billy fanstone
Three systems carry oxygen ultimately to the cell: the breathing, the exchange in the lungs, and the blood circulation. Most of the air you breathe in is not used at the alveolar level, so there is always a surplus there. Unless you have emphysema or some other lung disease your lung will process all the oxygen that it can. Then the blood will carry it to the cells where they will be used. When you run hard, or sprint in swimming, your breathing rate goes up, your heart rate goes up and all systems coordinate to get more oxygen to you cells. Eventually the system will start breaking up, mostly at the cellular level, where there is a maximum speed of oxygen processing. So what will eventually make you slow down is not your heart rate or breathing, but the complete inability of the cells to metabolize more that is needed. Even if you had pure oxygen, you wouldn't go faster. Oxygen is beneficial when there is a problem, a disease, a lack of oxygen, but having more of it won't make you faster or make more of it available at cellular level. In other words, those nose strips are good for snoring sometimes, they look good and the people who make them make lots of money and the pros who use them (in a racing car?) also make lots of money. This is snake oil medicine, nothing to gain from it. billy fanstone
