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Robach 2012 Br J Sports Med

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Robach P, Siebenmann C, Jacobs R, Rasmussen P, Nordsborg N, Pesta D, Gnaiger E, Diaz V, Christ A, Fiedler J, Crivelli N, Secher NH, Pichon A, Maggiorini M, Lundby C (2012) The role of haemoglobin mass on VO2max following normobaric live high-train low in endurance-trained athletes. Br J Sports Med Jul 12. 46:822-7.

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Robach P, Siebenmann C, Jacobs R, Rasmussen P, Nordsborg N, Pesta D, Gnaiger Erich, Diaz V, Christ A, Fiedler J, Crivelli N, Secher NH, Pichon A, Maggiorini M, Lundby C (2012) Br J Sports Med

Abstract: It remains unclear by which mechanism 'live high-train low' (LHTL) altitude training increases exercise performance. Haematological and skeletal muscle adaptations have both been proposed. To test the hypotheses that (i) LHTL improves maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max ) and (ii) this improvement is related to hypoxia-induced increases in total haemoglobin mass (Hb(mass)) and not to improved maximal oxidative capacity of skeletal muscle, we determined VO2max before LHTL and after LHTL, before and after the altitude-induced increases in Hb(mass) (measured by carbon-monoxide rebreathing) had been abolished by isovolumic haemodilution. We obtained skeletal muscle biopsies to quantify mitochondrial oxidative capacity and efficiency. Sixteen endurance-trained athletes were assigned (double-blinded, placebo controlled) to β‰₯16;h/day over 4;weeks to normoxia (placebo, n=6) or normobaric hypoxia equivalent to 3000;m altitude (LHTL, n=10). Four-week LHTL did not increase VO2max , irrespective of treatment (LHTL: 1.5%; placebo: 2.0%). Hb(mass) was slightly increased (4.6%) in 5 (of 10) LHTL subjects but this was not accompanied by a concurrent increase in VO2max . In the subjects demonstrating an increase in Hb(mass), isovolumic haemodilution elicited a 5.8% decrease in VO2max . Cycling efficiency was altered neither with time nor by LHTL. Neither maximal capacity of oxidative phosphorylation nor mitochondrial efficiency was modified by time or LHTL. The present results suggest that LHTL has no positive effect on VO2max in endurance-trained athletes because (i) muscle maximal oxidative capacity is not improved following LHTL and (ii) erythrocyte volume expansion after LHTL, if any, is too small to alter O2 transport.


β€’ O2k-Network Lab: CH Zurich Lundby C, AT Innsbruck Gnaiger E, US CO Colorado Springs Jacobs RA


Labels: MiParea: Respiration, mt-Biogenesis;mt-density, Exercise physiology;nutrition;life style 

Stress:Ischemia-reperfusion  Organism: Human  Tissue;cell: Skeletal muscle  Preparation: Permeabilized tissue  Enzyme: Marker enzyme 

Coupling state: LEAK, OXPHOS  Pathway:HRR: Oxygraph-2k 


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