Practice

Inspiratory muscle training

Do 30 breaths twice a day on the trainer if you race. It's the legs that gain.

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Static apnea tables and breath-hold training

Do your breath-hold tables on the floor. Never in water, never after hyperventilating.

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BOLT score as a CO2-tolerance measure

Stop training your BOLT score. It tracks nothing you actually care about.

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Mild HBOT

Don't buy a soft-shell chamber. It's the pressure trials use as their placebo.

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HBOT for longevity

Don't buy a 60-session hyperbaric course to turn your age back.

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Hypoxic / elevation training masks

Bin the elevation mask. You're breathing ordinary room air through a valve.

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Repeated-sprint training in hypoxia

Skip the hypoxic mask. Sprint hard in normal air.

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Intermittent hypoxic exposure / intermittent hypoxic trai…

Don't put a hypoxia generator in your house. Breathe it monitored or not at all.

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Normobaric hypoxic tents and simulated live-high-train-low

Don't buy the altitude tent. Tested against a fake one, it did nothing.

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Live high, train low at natural altitude

Sleep high, train low. Training up there costs you speed and buys you nothing.

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Slow-paced breathing and HRV biofeedback

Six breaths a minute, any time you're wound up. Don't pay a subscription for it.

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Buteyko breathing technique

Learn Buteyko if you're asthmatic, and keep taking your preventer inhaler.

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