Implications for training in different conditions
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Freeletics. (2020). Heat, cold, altitude: Sports under extreme conditions. Retrieved from https://www.freeletics.com/en/blog/posts/sports-under-extreme-conditions/
Today we are going to discuss everything altitude. More specifically the physiological changes that occur in the body, the acute and chronic adaptations, and how long it takes to become altitude adapted. Let's dive right in.
Implications - Altitude
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Billaut, F. & Aughey, R. (n.d.). Update in the understanding of altitude-induced limitations to performance in team-sport athletes Retrieved from https://utswmed.org/medblog/high-altitude-training/
The internationalism of field-based team sports (TS) such as football and rugby requires teams to compete in tournaments held at low to moderate altitude (∼1200–2500 m). In TS, acceleration, speed and aerobic endurance are physical characteristics associated with ball possession and, ultimately, scoring. -
Levine, B. (2016). How high-altitude training can benefit elite endurance athletes like runners and swimmers. Retrieved from https://utswmed.org/medblog/high-altitude-training/
Seconds matter in competitive sports. In fact, less than 1 second separated Singapore swimmer Joseph Schooling’s gold medal from a three-way tie for silver in the 100-meter butterfly at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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Stellingwerff, T., Garvica-Lewis, L., Hall, R., Koivisto, A., Heikura, A., & Burke, L. (2019). Nutrition and Altitude: Strategies to Enhance Adaptation, Improve Performance and Maintain Health: A Narrative Review. Retrieved fromhttps://link.springer.com/a
Training at low to moderate altitudes (~ 1600–2400 m) is a common approach used by endurance athletes to provide a distinctive environmental stressor to augment training stimulus in the anticipation of increasing subsequent altitude- and sea-level-based performance.
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Peterson, D. (2010). Why Do Athletes Train at High Altitudes? Retrieved from https://www.livescience.com/32750-why-do-athletes-train-at-high-altitudes.html
To prepare for last month's World Cup, the American and English squads took two different paths toward acclimating to South Africa's higher altitude.
Immediate physiological effects of altitude training
PowerPoint - Physiological effects of Altitude
