High-altitude training mask

Has anyone used this?

trainingmask.com/

If you did, does it work?

lol at this product.

superkick wrote:lol at this product.

I usually just do situps in my hyperbolic chamber

clay meier wrote:I usually just do situps in my hyperbolic chamber

csproul wrote: hypobaric

Keith Robinson wrote: He may have actually meant hyperbolic, in the sense of hyperbole as in the use of exaggeration for rhetorical purposes.

KAValles wrote: He certainly did! csproul, I am surprised that you haven't heard of it. It's 7 years old. theonion.com/articles/amazi…

Scott McMahon wrote: Just buy a Seirus facemask and go run hills with it...

These work much better.....

"Imagine, that one day, fatigue and plateau's were a thing of that past with the Training Mask that day is NOW!"

From the website, it seems that its works, at least as far as cutting off oxygen to the brain...

that website is fuggin ridiculous

i use a dew rag ...

I feel like the only people buying this are the same people who have zero climbing exp and drop 70k to get short roped up everest.

Actually the mask isn't really designed for climbers specifically. MMA fighters use it. One of the guys at my training gym swears by the Bas Rutten version:

fightercorner.com/bas-rutte…

They're very popular with the fighting folks, which is why I wondered if anyone in the climbing community had heard of/used it.

This was the earlier ghetto version in which the guy used a snorkel and tapes:

youtube.com/watch?v=HKmte76…

Anyways thanks for the entertainment.

clay meier wrote:I usually just do situps in my hyperbolic chamber

Jason N. wrote: dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/H… ??

Seems like you could the same by just holding your breath and putting yourself in oxygen debt?. We used to do "hypoxic breathing" in swimming, where you only breath after a certain # of strokes during freestyle sprint work.

Or just take some epo boost and increase your red blood cells.

pretty sure this is the setup you want.

Ali, essentially yes, it will play with partial pressures by increasing ventilatory dead space (P-02 decreases as it would with altitude gain), as well as increasing the work of breathing, and the work of the heart. This will influence cardiovascular function and the hemoglobin curve through a few pathways depending on time. However, P-CO2 and relative humidity increases, and even with the exhale valve, it looks like there's also re-breathing CO2 which is typically not a good idea when your body is in a high demand from work.

Whether it's beneficial or not for an individual in question, a physician needs to look at the overall picture.

Buff... Are you a doc/pa/np...