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http://nypost.com/2015/12/09/this-hot-new-gym-trend-will-freak-you-out/
This hot new gym trend will freak you out
Last week, I strolled into my gym and was midway through a yawn when a dude on the treadmill caught my eye.
No, it’s not because I thought he was cute. He might have been, but I couldn’t tell because most of his face was covered by what looked like a hazmat mask. I immediately wondered, “Is he okay? Is something wrong with the air in here?”
I consulted my good friend Google and found that gym goers everywhere have been strapping these intense masks to their faces at the start of their workouts. But why?!
These slightly freaky masks are known as elevation-training masks and claim to simulate exercising at a high altitude, promising to increase your lung capacity and strengthen your diaphragm to boost your performance.
But is it really better to sweat at a high altitude? And do these masks really replicate those circumstances?
“When you’re at high altitude, the air is less dense, so there’s less oxygen compared to sea level,” says Benjamin Levine, M.D., of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Since your brain and body sensors are very sensitive to the level of oxygen in your blood, your brain receives signals to breathe more to deliver more oxygen throughout your body…which causes you to huff and puff more than normal.
The mask I saw on treadmill guy at the gym can’t alter the amount of oxygen in the air. What it does, says Levine, is add resistance to your breathing, as if you’re breathing through a straw. So its only similarity to altitude training is that you’ll feel like it’s harder to breathe.
But gimmicky marketing aside, there’s no strong correlation between training at a higher altitude and seeing increased fitness results, says Levine. “We studied training at altitude and found that it didn’t improve respiratory muscle strength or endurance more than training at sea level.”
While Levine believes that, under very careful and controlled conditions, you can train respiratory muscles to reduce fatigue and improve blood flow, he says these training masks’ only benefit would be a placebo effect.
When the mask is on, you have to really suck down air (which is partially blocked by valves on these masks). So when you take it off, breathing feels easy as pie.
If you want to look intimidating AF in the gym, one of these masks will do the trick. Otherwise, we’ll take our oxygen unfiltered, please.
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http://nypost.com/2015/12/09/this-hot-new-gym-trend-will-freak-you-out/
This hot new gym trend will freak you out
Last week, I strolled into my gym and was midway through a yawn when a dude on the treadmill caught my eye.
No, it’s not because I thought he was cute. He might have been, but I couldn’t tell because most of his face was covered by what looked like a hazmat mask. I immediately wondered, “Is he okay? Is something wrong with the air in here?”
I consulted my good friend Google and found that gym goers everywhere have been strapping these intense masks to their faces at the start of their workouts. But why?!
These slightly freaky masks are known as elevation-training masks and claim to simulate exercising at a high altitude, promising to increase your lung capacity and strengthen your diaphragm to boost your performance.
But is it really better to sweat at a high altitude? And do these masks really replicate those circumstances?
“When you’re at high altitude, the air is less dense, so there’s less oxygen compared to sea level,” says Benjamin Levine, M.D., of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Since your brain and body sensors are very sensitive to the level of oxygen in your blood, your brain receives signals to breathe more to deliver more oxygen throughout your body…which causes you to huff and puff more than normal.
The mask I saw on treadmill guy at the gym can’t alter the amount of oxygen in the air. What it does, says Levine, is add resistance to your breathing, as if you’re breathing through a straw. So its only similarity to altitude training is that you’ll feel like it’s harder to breathe.
But gimmicky marketing aside, there’s no strong correlation between training at a higher altitude and seeing increased fitness results, says Levine. “We studied training at altitude and found that it didn’t improve respiratory muscle strength or endurance more than training at sea level.”
While Levine believes that, under very careful and controlled conditions, you can train respiratory muscles to reduce fatigue and improve blood flow, he says these training masks’ only benefit would be a placebo effect.
When the mask is on, you have to really suck down air (which is partially blocked by valves on these masks). So when you take it off, breathing feels easy as pie.
If you want to look intimidating AF in the gym, one of these masks will do the trick. Otherwise, we’ll take our oxygen unfiltered, please.
Those masks have been around since at least 2012.
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"Training" ::)
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I would rather die of autoerotic asphyxiation and my mother find my body, hanging, pants down and penis in hand with porn playing on my mobile phone, than be found training in one of these masks.
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ptps
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I would rather die of autoerotic asphyxiation and my mother find my body, hanging, pants down and penis in hand with porn playing on my mobile phone, than be found training in one of these masks.
Great to be that hand
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Coach Blaha has already covered this.
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Welcome to a few years ago, dingus.
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If it even works, why the fuck would you use it during strength training. ::)
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Morons
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I own one for specific pace training drills... Have had it for 5 years.
Next you'll discover yoga pants.
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Absurd.
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Absurd.
For most movements sure. But runners and other athletes can find value.
http://naturalrunningcenter.com/2013/10/20/breathing-exercises-runners/
Lots of ways to learn to breathe better. For some the restrictive mask helps by making them more conscious of their breath.
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I would rather die of autoerotic asphyxiation and my mother find my body, hanging, pants down and penis in hand with porn playing on my mobile phone, than be found training in one of these masks.
That'd be less embarrassing.
Those masks are begging for attention.
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I would rather die of autoerotic asphyxiation and my mother find my body, hanging, pants down and penis in hand with porn playing on my mobile phone, than be found training in one of these masks.
Lol
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::)
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I wear it during sex. Enables me to last five minutes more. So basically I've stretched the usual intercourse by three minutes. Good bang for a buck.
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I`ve got 3 of them hanging on my seldom used treadmill out in the garage.
::)
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Next they'll be wearing giant ball-gags and leg irons on the treadmill :D
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I would rather die of autoerotic asphyxiation and my mother find my body, hanging, pants down and penis in hand with porn playing on my mobile phone, than be found training in one of these masks.
I hate when that happens.....
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will cut down on the smell of anal emissions in some gyms...
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I own one for specific pace training drills... Have had it for 5 years.
Next you'll discover yoga pants.
Bahahaha, I'm never gonna let you off this one man. OMG you're one of them huh?
POuahahahahaha......
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I would rather die of autoerotic asphyxiation and my mother find my body, hanging, pants down and penis in hand with porn playing on my mobile phone, than be found training in one of these masks.
;D ;D ;D
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I would rather die of autoerotic asphyxiation and my mother find my body, hanging, pants down and penis in hand with porn playing on my mobile phone, than be found training in one of these masks.
Lol, you and me both brother. I don't care if there is some kind of minuscule benefit, it's queer.
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handsome guy, picture of health
will cut down on the smell of anal emissions in some gyms...
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Would be a great honor to smell one of Markus's farts.
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I've seen 2 people at my gym wearing these.
Ironically enough they're both out of shape and do not look like they work out.
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I would rather die of autoerotic asphyxiation and my mother find my body, hanging, pants down and penis in hand with porn playing on my mobile phone, than be found training in one of these masks.
yes but what if your dad found you - what then cowboy
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Would be a great honor to smell one of Markus's farts.
It seriously would be!
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Bahahaha, I'm never gonna let you off this one man. OMG you're one of them huh?
POuahahahahaha......
I'm one of nothing.
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I would rather die of autoerotic asphyxiation and my mother find my body, hanging, pants down and penis in hand with porn playing on my mobile phone, than be found training in one of these masks.
;D
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For most movements sure. But runners and other athletes can find value.
http://naturalrunningcenter.com/2013/10/20/breathing-exercises-runners/
Lots of ways to learn to breathe better. For some the restrictive mask helps by making them more conscious of their breath.
Nose-plugs and using a straw would give almost the identical effect.
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I`ve got 3 of them hanging on my seldom used treadmill out in the garage.
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Women?
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I would rather die of autoerotic asphyxiation and my mother find my body, hanging, pants down and penis in hand with porn playing on my mobile phone, than be found training in one of these masks.
LOL
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