Titre
Training Diaries during Altitude Training Camp in Two Olympic Champions: An Observational Case Study.
Type
article
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Pugliese, L.
Auteure/Auteur
Serpiello, F.R.
Auteure/Auteur
Millet, G.P.
Auteure/Auteur
Torre, A.L.
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
ISSN
1303-2968
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2014
Volume
13
Numéro
3
Première page
666
Dernière page/numéro d’article
672
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
anglais
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article Publication Status: epublish
Résumé
Traditionally, Live High-Train High (LHTH) interventions were adopted when athletes trained and lived at altitude to try maximising the benefits offered by hypoxic exposure and improving sea level performance. Nevertheless, scientific research has proposed that the possible benefits of hypoxia would be offset by the inability to maintain high training intensity at altitude. However, elite athletes have been rarely recruited as an experimental sample, and training intensity has almost never been monitored during altitude research. This case study is an attempt to provide a practical example of successful LHTH interventions in two Olympic gold medal athletes. Training diaries were collected and total training volumes, volumes at different intensities, and sea level performance recorded before, during and after a 3-week LHTH camp. Both athletes successfully completed the LHTH camp (2090 m) maintaining similar absolute training intensity and training volume at high-intensity (> 91% of race pace) compared to sea level. After the LHTH intervention both athletes obtained enhancements in performance and they won an Olympic gold medal. In our opinion, LHTH interventions can be used as a simple, yet effective, method to maintain absolute, and improve relative training intensity in elite endurance athletes. Key PointsElite endurance athletes, with extensive altitude training experience, can maintain similar absolute intensity during LHTH compared to sea level.LHTH may be considered as an effective method to increase relative training intensity while maintaining the same running/walking pace, with possible beneficial effects on sea level performance.Training intensity could be the key factor for successful high-level LHTH camp.
PID Serval
serval:BIB_E375A9366AD1
PMID
Date de création
2014-09-19T16:39:48.125Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-21T06:58:34Z