http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/hakone-ekiden/2017/feature/20161222-OYT8T50092.html 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...
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