What is Hypoxic Exercise and How to train?

Introduction: I believe that when it comes to the form of exercise in fitness, many people have only heard of traditional aerobic exercise and anaerobic exercise, and even the vast majority of fitness people think that there are only these two forms of exercise. Indeed, these two forms of exercise are relatively conventional and classic, and can be said to occupy the vast majority of fitness forms. However, hypoxic exercise is also one of the forms of exercise, although the probability and frequency of use are not very high. But we should still learn about hypoxic exercise. What is the difference between hypoxic exercise and normal aerobic exercise? Here today we will talk about hypoxic exercise and the related benefits of hypoxic exercise.

01 What is hypoxic exercise? How should hypoxic exercise be done?

1. Hypoxic exercise

The meaning of hypoxic exercise is actually very easy to understand. As the name implies, when we are training, we need to train in an environment with lower than normal oxygen content.

For example, if we carry out high-altitude training on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the air in the plateau is relatively thin and the oxygen pressure is low, so this kind of environmental training is hypoxic training. When training in this environment, our body will produce more hemoglobin and red blood cells to increase the ability to take in oxygen. This is the main difference between hypoxic exercise and aerobic exercise.

2. How to do hypoxic exercise training?

Since this training method needs to be in a specific environment, but it is impossible for us to go to places like Lhasa every time we exercise, so the best way is to simulate a hypoxic environment.

For example, to train in a special hypoxic room, as for what kind of exercise to do, you can start your fitness plan, which can be running, cycling, or sprinting.

In addition to going to a specific hypoxic environment, another common method is to wear an oxygen mask. If you plan to use the method of wearing a mask, be careful not to set the oxygen level too low.

02 What sports benefits can we bring to us by adopting the method of hypoxic exercise?

1. Improve endurance

To talk about the benefits of hypoxic exercise, the first thing to talk about is to improve endurance. You must know that the reason why hypoxic exercise existed at the beginning was to be applied to endurance exercise, and there are countless facts that have proved it.

After long-term low-oxygen exercise in a plateau environment, athletes will perform better when they return to a normal environment, the main aspect of which is the improvement of endurance. You can even simply understand the benefits of aerobic exercise, basically all low-oxygen exercises have them, and in some respects, the effect of low-oxygen exercises will be better.

2. Improve your explosive power

Many fitness people don’t know about this aspect. In fact, this is what many people have discovered recently. If repetitive sprint exercises are performed in a low-oxygen environment, then the sprint ability of the bodybuilders and the ability to resist fatigue are all beneficial. Significantly helpful.

3. Precautions

Finally, I would like to tell you about some aspects of hypoxic exercise that we need to pay attention to. After all, it is not a conventional exercise method, so fitness beginners are not recommended to try it.

And the hypoxic exercise mentioned today is mainly to popularize the knowledge of fitness for everyone. Knowing more forms of exercise will allow us to have more fitness choices, but the premise of choosing any exercise should be safety. and valid.

Conclusion: The above is some simple content about hypoxic exercise training methods. I believe that many fitness beginners are hearing about hypoxic exercise for the first time. Indeed, this form of training is less likely to be used in our lives, and the training safety will be worse than aerobic exercise and anaerobic exercise. Therefore, when choosing this training method, you must choose carefully. First of all, you should fully understand the training form and ensure that you have a certain sports foundation before you can consider this training form.