Daouda Sow makes a victorious return to competition after having
trained using hypoventilation
18/03/2019
Daouda Sow, the boxing silver medalist at the 2008 Olympic Games
in Beijing, prepares his come back to competition (April 13th
2019) using hypoventilation training.
15/02/2019
Our last study "Cerebral and muscle oxygenation during
repeated shuttle run sprints with hypoventilation" has just
been accepted for publication in the
International Journal of Sports Medicine. You can read the
abstract of the paper
here.
02/02/2019
"Does holding your breath increase VO2max?" Hypoventilation
training advocated by Matt
Mosman. You can read the article
here and watch the video below.
18/12/2018
Andrew Sheaff, scientist and swimming coach explains how
hypoventilation training can boost performance. The article is
here.
15/10/2018
In 1983, Joaquim Cruz, the Brazilian middle-distance runner,
started his preparation for the Los Angeles Olympic Games,
trained by Luiz De Oliveira. In a very nice article published in
"Sports Illustrated" on 24 December 1984, Kenny Moore describes
the belief of de Oliveira in the effectiveness of breath hold
training (now called hypoventilation training in its improved
version) and how he used it with Cruz:
"To
defend against oxygen debt, the most dramatic and dizzying is
training by holding your breath.
When you do 1:14 pace for 600 meters and you have 200 to
run, you are going to be in lactic acid distress. This gets you
so you don't feel destroyed by it. Cruz holds his breath for
distances up to 75 meters in his circuits, and runs 300-meter
intervals (in 40 seconds each) without breathing for the last 40
meters".
A few months later Joaquim Cruz won the 800m gold medal in the
Los Angeles Olympic Games. You can read the full article
here.
09/07/2018
The 1st international symposium on altitude training
took place on the 7th and 8th of July in Font-Romeu
(France). The
presentations were of high quality. There was even a little
bonus with Samuel Bellenoue (the coach of the AG2R pro cycling
team) performing a cycling exercise with hypoventilation on a Wattbike
under the supervision of Xavier Woorons.
25/05/2018
Xavier Woorons will participate in the 1st
international symposium on altitude training that will take
place on the 7th and 8th of July in
Font-Romeu. He will present the hypoventilation training method.
Some of the greatest experts of altitude training will be there
to present the latest scientific advances.
24/02/2018
"Holding your breath during training can improve performance".
An article written by Alex Hutchinson in the Globe and Mail ,
the most widely read newspaper in Canada. It highlights the
latest scientific advances in the field of hypoventilation
trainng. You can read it
here.
17/01/2018
2018 is already off to a good start: the study we carried out in
collobaration with Lausanne University has just been accepted
for publication. It shows incredible performance gains in
highly-trained rugby players who trained for 4 weeks using
repeated sprint training in hypoxia induced by voluntary
hypoventilation (RSH-VHL). You can find the paper
here
01/11/2017
ARPEH starts a new study to try and investigate the
physiological effects of repeated sprint training with voluntary
hypoventilation in highly-trained cyclists. The study will take
place at the
Velodrome de Roubaix. To be followed...
18/10/2017
We are proud to announce the publication of our last study that
deals with the acute effects of repeated cycling sprints in
hypoxia induced by voluntary hypoventilation (RSH-VHL). The main
outcome is that exercising with RSH-VHL induces a fall in muscle
oxygenation without impairing performance compared with the same
exercise in normal conditions.This method may be worth using in
a training programme. You can read the summary of the article
here
14/10/2017
Discover our new video on Youtube: a rare short document from
the 1950's which shows Emil Zátopek, the famous Czech
long-distance runner, performing a hypoventilation workout.
25/04/2017
Great news for Hypoventilation training: the method has been
officially included in the panorama of the methods used to
perfom hypoxic/altitude training (presented in the number 1
journal of sports sciences: Sports Medicine)
ARPEH and the University of Lille (Northern France) begin a new
scientific study that aims to determine the physiological
effects of a repeated sprint exercise performed with voluntary
hypoventilation at low lung volume. After showing that this kind
of intervention is effective to significantly improve swimmers
performance, the time has come to assess the physiolocal causes
of such improvement and to assess whether this exercise can be
performed in running or cycling.
02/01/2017
We are pleased to announce you the creation of the Youtube
Channel "Hypoventilation Training". It will allow us first to
share visually the news of this training method and its
utilization in different kind of sports and second to make you
better undersand how it works. You can already watch our first
video that was taken at the 2016 European Congress of Sport
Science in Vienna, Austria, in which Xavier Woorons presents the
results of a study dealing with the effects of hypoventilation
training on swimming performance.
10/12/2016
The Rugby players of Toulon (France) are testing hypoventilation
training to improve their physical capacities.
28/11/2016
The French team of Judo-Jujitsu, which trained for the first
time with hypoventilation, wins 4 world champonship titles and
13 medals overall in the 2016 world championships in Poland.
02/10/2016
Arpeh, in collaboration with the University of Lausanne
(Switzerland) is to start a new study that aims at investigating
the effects of hypoventilation training at high intensity on the
physical performance of rugby players. To be continued...
10/09/2016
The French team of Judo-Jujitsu, under the responsibility of
Bruno Le Gal, uses hypoventilation training for its preparation
to the world championships 2016 that will take place in Poland
in November.
15/07/2016
Xavier Woorons presenting his research on hypoventilation
training at high intensity at the Congress of Sport Science in
Vienna, Austria.
28/06/2016
Xavier Woorons will participate in the 21st Congress
of the European
College of Sport Science (ECSS)which will take place in Vienna
(Austria) between 6th and 9th of july 2016
to present his research on the effects of hypoventilation
training at supramaximal in swimming. Let's meet on the 8th
of july from 6:00 PM in the Room S2 to attend the presentation.
Here is the general
programme.
07/06/2016
You can read the summary of the new study published by ARPEH on
the effects of repeated sprint training in hypoxia induced by
hypoventilation in swimming
here.
01/06/2016
The article that shows the positive effects of hypoventilation
training on swimming performance has just been published in the
issue of June of the American Journal Medicine & Science in
Sports & Exercise. You can read the paper on the scientific
site
Researchgate.
24/05/2016
The University of Lausanne (Switzerland), in collaboration with
ARPEH and the University of Lille (France), publish an original
study on the effects of repeated sprint training in hypoxia
induced by voluntary hypoventilation in swimming. The results
show that this training method is more effective for improving
repeated sprint ability in swimmers than the same training
performed under normal conditions. This study, published in
the International Journal of Sports Physiology & Performance,
confirms the results obtained in the previous research
conducted in swimming. Hypoventilation had never been
performed at such velocity!
10/04/2016
A study published this month demonstrates once again the
positive effect of hypoventilation training, through the
combined effect of hypoxia and hypercapnia, in swimmers'
performance. The article can be consulted
here.
07/01/2016
2016
starts well! ARPEH and the Pluridisciplinary Research Unit
'Sport Health & Society' (URePSSS) of Lille University (France)
has just published a study in the American Journal Medicine
& Science in Sports & Exercise on the effects of
hypoventilation training on swimming performance. For the first
time the method was used at high exercise intensities. The
results show a marked increase in performance for the 100-, 200-
and 400-m freestyle trials. Waiting for the publication of the
paper in the journal, you can read the summary by clicking
here.
24/12/2015
A study carried out by greek researchers and published this
month in the "Journal of Human Kinetics" shows that training
with hypoventilation over a 4-month period improves time
performance in fin swimmers for the 50-m apnea trial and the
400-m surface trial.
Eric Laperrière, the swimming coach of the Aix Savoie Triathlon
team uses hypoventilation training since last year with his
triathletes. To him, the method is efflicient for reducing the
feeling of fatigue during a race.
07/10/2015
The french team sprint cross-country skiing, coached by Cyril
Burdet, experiments hypoventilation training for improving
performance in its skiers.
02/09/2015
The swimmers of Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois,
coached by Andrew Sheaff, now perform hypoventilation exercises
during their training.
08/07/2015
Frédérick Bousquet, the french swimmer, former holder of the
world record in the 50 m freestyle, performs aquabiking with
hypoventilation for his physical preparation. You can read his
interview
here (french language).
26/02/2015
A short video of a korean man convinced of the effectiveness of
hypoventilation training.
01/01/2015
We wish you happy new
year 2015!
In 2015, a new
approach to hypoventilation training will be investigated, in
order to make this method even more effective. The first results
should be published by the end of the year.
16/11/2014
A study has just shown that the hypoxic and hypercapnic effects
of hypoventilation training could increase haemoglobin
concentration and VO2max by 5% and 10% respectively! These
results have not been published in an international scientific
journal and remain to be confirmed. They are however
encouraging.
The Institute of Sport Sciences of Lausanne University (ISSUL),
headed by Grégoire Millet, in collaboration with ARPEH, has just
begun a scientific study on the effects of hypoxic training
through hypoventilation in swimmers. The results
(highly anticipated!) should be known in a few weeks...
15/09/2014
Here is a new kind of physical practice: aquabiking with
hypoventilation! More details
here.
01/09/2014
The swimmers of Lausanne (Switzerland) now include
hypoventilation at low lung volume in their training programme
at the instigation of their trainers, Laurent Trincat and
Nicolas Tcheng.
29/05/2014
A few pictures of the Swimming Conference that took place in Lille
(Northern France):
02/05/2014
On May the 28th, Xavier Woorons will make a short Swimming
Conference to present the interest for swimmers to train with
hypoventilation. The conferences will take place at the
University of Sport Sciences in Lille (northern France). You can
get all the information
here.
12/04/2014
The city of La Madeleine (Northern France) presents
hypoventilation training to its inhabitants in the Municipal
Journal of April.
Xavier Woorons discusses the interest of hypoventilation
training for swimmers on the website
www.swimmingscience.net. You can read the interview
here.
The book "Hypoventilation training, push your limits!" is now
available! You can buy it on this website by clicking
here.
01/01/2014
We wish you a nice and happy new
year! Of course, we also hope hypoventilation training
will help you improve your performance.
20/12/2013
A few days before Christmas, the first copies of the book
"Hypoventilation training, push your limits" have arrived. The
members of ARPEH can get the book (with a 10% discount!)
before its official publication, on the 9th of January.
02/11/2013
An American study that has just been published in the journal "Scandinavian
Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports" has showed that
several weeks of training including hypoventilation workouts
could improve performance in swimming. It's a good news, this is
going in the right direction! A summary of the study
here.
05/10/2013
The website www.gymsante.eu has published an article on
hypoventilation training and the researches carried out by
ARPEH. We are grateful for their support. You can find their
article (in French) by clicking
here.
05/09/2013
The scientific study dealing with hypoventilation in swimming,
which has been carried out by ARPEH
and Paris 13 University, has just been published on the
internet. For the first time, thanks to an innovative technique
allowing the measurement of blood O2
concentrations, we have shown that swimmers could train under
hypoxic conditions at sea level if they use hypoventilation at
low lung volume. You can get an overview of the paper by
clicking
here. The paper is due to be published officially in
the journal Respiratory Physiology Neurobiology at the beginning
of January 2014.
02/08/2013
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