METHOD FOR IMPROVING PHYSICAL EFFICIENCY OF SPORTSMEN Russian patent published in 1996 - IPC

FIELD: medicine. SUBSTANCE: method involves performing physical training exercises under control followed by treatment with hypoxic hypercapnic gas mixture at initial CO₂ concentration of 3% and O₂ concentration of 12%. Treatment duration is 30 min. CO₂ concentration is increased and O₂ concentration is reduced by 1% during the first three procedures to reach 5% concentration of CO₂ and 10% concentration of O₂ keeping CO₂ to O₂ concentration ratio constant and each following procedure duration being increased by 5 min. Total treatment course is 19 procedures. EFFECT: enhanced effectiveness of treatment.