Altitude is good for you

80% of Olympians use altitude training. Athletes competing at altitude see an 8% improvement in performance from it. People who use it to train for normal atmospheric pressure get a 5% performance increase.

That's if I remembered the figures correctly. I was told that the best runners enter a yogic state of mind when competing to minimise the amount oxygen used by their brains. Richard at the Altitude Centre in... wait for it... Putney, tells me he has compelling evidence from Tibetan monks that they have more oxygen in their blood from using less in their brains. Apparently up to 40% of our oxygen can be lost in our brains if we get into a panic.

If I weren't so depleted right now I'd draw a witty conclusion from this.

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Today I learned...

My key stats
*Heart-rate - 48 bpm (apparently v good)
*Blood oxygen level - 99 / 100 (above avg)
*And I have the lung capacity of a twenty-five year old