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Altitude acclimation in an airplane????

JoseR
over 5 years ago

Live in New York and flew to San Diego. Back to New York three days later and my watch says I'm 2952 ft acclimated. One week later... no changes in altitude acclimation and also 1% maintained heat acclimation. True I got out for a run in La Jolla and it was warm but after a week  training again in New York winter this seems a bit ridiculous. I always thought these features were fake features...

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    No, it is not fake features. Actually, when you're flying with any commercial airplane, it is not 100% air pressurized. What it means - on a typical flight, as the aircraft climbs to standard 36,000 feet, the interior of the plane “climbs” to between 6000-8000 feet. So, it's like your body sits for 5 hours at that elevation. That doesn't mean that your body is 100% acclimated to 6000 elevation, but it means that your body got "just a little bit of" acclimation (in your case to 2952ft). In order to get full 6000ft acclimation you could have stay in the airplane during one or two weeks.

    Looking at so small elevation acclimation (if i calculated correctly 2952 ft is less than 900m), it is something that is easily to achieve, and that could easily stay with you for a week.

    Same with heat acclimation... Watch are not saying you have 100% heat acclimation. You've just got "a small amount" of heat acclimation. That is true.

    So, for me everything here make total sense.

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    Any sport algorithm has its own limitations, and (so far) they are not one-algorithm-fit-everyone. But if you understand underlying math and physiology, than you can understand how to read the numbers and adjust them to your needs if needed.