http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/hakone-ekiden/2017/feature/20161222-OYT8T50092.html
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Tokai University's Shonan campus features a "low pressure chamber." With 20 cm-thick walls it is like a room on a submarine. In preparation for the Hakone Ekiden, twice a week the school's athletes work out in the chamber on running machines and other equipment. According to Tamotsu Terao, professor of exercise physiology at Tokai University's Sports Medical Science Laboratory, the interior of the 24 square meter, 3 meter-tall room can replicate altitude conditions ranging from 0 to 4000 m, and by adjusting temperature and humidity it is also simulate a variety of weather conditions. "By setting it to 3000 m you create a situation that replicates running at Mt. Fuji's eighth stage," said Prof. Terao. It is said that training in a low pressure, low oxygen environment increases the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood, which improves the enduran…
translated by Brett Larner
Tokai University's Shonan campus features a "low pressure chamber." With 20 cm-thick walls it is like a room on a submarine. In preparation for the Hakone Ekiden, twice a week the school's athletes work out in the chamber on running machines and other equipment. According to Tamotsu Terao, professor of exercise physiology at Tokai University's Sports Medical Science Laboratory, the interior of the 24 square meter, 3 meter-tall room can replicate altitude conditions ranging from 0 to 4000 m, and by adjusting temperature and humidity it is also simulate a variety of weather conditions. "By setting it to 3000 m you create a situation that replicates running at Mt. Fuji's eighth stage," said Prof. Terao. It is said that training in a low pressure, low oxygen environment increases the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood, which improves the enduran…