Expounding on my last post, as your altitude decreases the concentration of oxygen in the air increases and is the reason why many professional athlete’s subscribe to the “Train High, Sleep Low” methodology.  Of course, there are others that subscribe to the “Sleep High, Train Low” methodology.  From what I understand, which is probably very little as I’m a  dumb athlete, the main goal of this is to improve a person’s ability to convert oxygen in to energy and this improves with the availability of Oxygen in the air.

Oxygen is what assist mitochondreon in their production of Adenosine Triphophat, more commonly given the abbreviation ATP (P.S. what ATP stood for I had to look up, being the individual with limited mental capacity that I am).  ATP is the vehicle by which chemical energy is transported in cells.

Applying that to how the “Sleep High, Train Low” methodology works, while in your body’s rest state your body is generating a larger number of mitochondreon so that when you are training, or competing for that matter, your body has access to a higher number of mitocondrea to assist in the creation of energy.  At higher altitude, with less oxygen available, one’s body will produce higher number of mitochondrea per cell to assist in the intake of a lesser amount of oxygen to create the same amount of energy.

I hope that scatter-brained explanation made sense.