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[Mechanisms of adaptation to intermittent hypoxic training course in sportsmen of high qualification]
1Boris Grinchenko Kyiv Municipal Pedagogical University.
Abstract:
Normobaric intermittent hypoxic training (IHT) is an effective method for improvement of the FRS state, increase of the aerobic productivity, as well as general and special capacity for work in sportsmen of high qualification. High efficacy of IHT in improving all aspects of sportsmen FRS is a result of alternating the hypoxic influences and normoxic intervals between them during which the level of plastic processes remains increased, oxygen tension in arterial blood and tissues increases to nonnoxic values. After IHT course, the state of organ respiration improves, the respiration volume, a part of alveolar ventilation in the minute volume of respiration, oxygen saturation of arterial blood, hemoglobin content in blood--increase as well as economy and efficacy of oxygen regimes of organism, general and special (especially important) physical capacity for work.
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