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| # Posted 2008-04-22 12:50:33 | |
| Mounty: | |
| # Posted 2008-04-22 14:24:06 | |
| Fat Rat: | mainly you get a massive plasma (blood) expansion which increases VO2max. but there are lots more specific cellular things too. (heat acclimation also stimulate bodies production of EPO, which does wonders, even outside the whole increased blood cell bit) |
| # Posted 2008-04-23 16:51:57 | |
| hel vino: | you are mental. are you doing 8 consecutive days?
i did a study on this in the heat chamber at Leeds Uni. the aim was to see if the increase in plasma volume increased orthostatic tolerance measured by tilt testing. it didn't. also the experiment was flawed. |
| # Posted 2008-04-24 07:07:47 | |
| Fat Rat: | so why was the experiment flawed? |
| # Posted 2008-04-24 20:22:03 | |
| hel vino: | we gave them salt tablets, thinking that if they got low on salt it might compromise the plasma volume expansion but afterwards i wondered whether the mechanism might require them to get low on salt, also the subjects mostly had good orthostatic tolerance to start with, maybe it's not possible to increase it if it's good already. we should have got some real "fainters" in, but then i guess we'd have had problem with ethics. ho hum i still got my degree.. |
| # Posted 2008-04-30 08:51:42 | |
| Bomb: | how hot? and what kind of training do you need to do to get an effect?
...just wondering whether summers of spending all day working in a 50C glasshouse might not have been that bad after all!? |
| # Posted 2008-04-30 09:48:56 | |
| Fat Rat: | i would suggest between 30 and 36 in most cases.
you want to work at about 65-75% (or maybe slightly higher) for best results. you have to be careful at higher temps and higher workloads obviously. guessing the glasshouse just exhausted you... although perhaps not the worse thing. |
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