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When you breathe oxygen-poor air through a mask for only 5 minutes before lifting weights, your blood oxygen level drops more than when you’re at real high altitude—even if the air has the same oxygen content.

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Inter-set rest configuration effect on acute physiological and performance-related responses to a resistance training session in terrestrial vs simulated hypoxia

Randomized Controlled Trial
Human
2022

The study looked at two types of low-oxygen environments during exercise but never measured the actual oxygen levels in the blood, so we can't tell if one type lowers oxygen more than the other like the claim says.

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Inter-set rest configuration effect on acute physiological and performance-related responses to a resistance training session in terrestrial vs simulated hypoxia

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DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13469

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Breathing air with less oxygen through a mask (simulated altitude) makes your muscles get less oxygen during exercise than being at real high altitude, even when the oxygen level in the air is the same.

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Even when the air has the same amount of oxygen, breathing it through a mask at low pressure makes your body produce less lactic acid and keeps your heart rate lower during weightlifting than being at real high altitude.

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Even if the air has the same oxygen level, being at real high altitude makes your body respond differently to weightlifting than breathing the same air through a mask—your muscles get more oxygen, you produce more lactic acid, and your heart works harder.

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