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==Altitude Training for Sea Level Performance==
An excellent meta-analysis<ref name="HypoxicMeta"/> (review of scientific studies) looked at how altitude training has been shown to improve sea level performance. The meta-analysis showed that:
* For sub-elite athletes
** IHE was very likely to improve performance
** Natural LHTL was likely to improve performance (living at altitude rather than an altitude tent)
** Artificial LHTL could possibly improve performance
* For elite athletes only natural LHTL was likely to improve performance (living at altitude rather than an altitude tent)
It should be noted that one of the most important conclusions of the meta-analysis is the lack of good quality studies. For instance, there were only two IHE studies for elite athletes, and one of these was flawed by providing far too low a level of hypoxia for most of the study.
==See Also==
* [[Altitude Training]]
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<ref name="muscle">http://www.hypoxico.com/images/pdfs/Response_of_skeletal_muscle_mitochondria_tohypoxia_Hoppel.pdf Response of skeletal muscle mitochondria to hypoxia</ref>
<ref name="HypoxicMeta">Sea-level exercise performance following adaptatio... [Sports Med. 2009] - PubMed result http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19203133</ref>
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