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I am preparing for high altitude and came across a you tube clip of an Indian doctor demonstrating an easy daily exercise that he claims prepared the lungs for thinner oxygen.
Basically your arms are bent upwards along your ears like wings and fingertips on base of the neck .
You raise up and down on tip toes and breath in and out fairly quickly. You begin with 30 and add ten a day till you are doing 200
I have got up to 80 on my 5th day and I can feel I have a slight sensation in my lungs. I've been trying to research if this is considered healthy - basically doing a hyperventilation exercise every day.
Also breathing through a straw for 30 breaths a day is a suggestion.
Does anyone rate any of these exercises? Can't find much info online so it can't be a popular method
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Well it'll be very good for your calf muscles, at any rate!
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Stuff an orange in your gob while having sex
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Sounds like absolute cobblers, go for a run/swim/cycle if you want to increase your breathing and it will have the added advantage of getting you fitter.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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I'm getting fit too of course.
Why do you think it's cobblers please?
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@poppyb, You do not need to practice to hyperventilate, all it means is breathe more.
Anyone who is not very elderly or has a serious medical condition has a huge ventilatory reserve they exercise this reserve when ill with diseases or when they need to breath more when taking exercise. Your breathing is generally controlled subconsciously and always when you are asleep.
Unless this chap has data to show that practicing hyperventilation improves altitude adaption it is likely to be nonsense.
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Build an extra couple of days into your ascent.
Be far more beneficial.
Last edited by After all it is free  on Wed 22-08-18 16:38; edited 1 time in total
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Thanks
Yes doing that already
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Build an extra couple of days into your ascent.
Be far more beneficial.
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It's the only real answer isn't it.
I really want to ski Mont Blanc but I find I slow down a lot above 3000m unless I'm very well acclimatized and that is going to make it a longer trip than I really have time for (away from family).
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Apparently viagra is the weapon of choice for attitude these days.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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First it's worth considering if you are actually going to "high altitude" - which for some seems to be Val Thorens village 
Breathing exercises are as good as useless. Your fitness has little effect on rate of acclimatisation (acclimatisation doesn't equal performance). The only way to acclimatise is ascend slowly and take diamox.
The jury is still out on Viagra. There is evidence to support it reducing the physiological effects of altitude. Conflicting reports of if reversing these changes actually improves acclimatisation and/or performance.
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