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Thursday, May 13, 2021
Brian Cox explains Quantum Mechanics in under 1 minute - Fascinating
Monday, May 10, 2021
Wolves 2 Brighton and Hove Albion 1
Wolves new players are showing their class and skill by beating the Brighton and Hove Albion team by 2 goals to 1 almost at the death.
While Wolves play pretty football, they need to strengthen their backline against set pieces and also their forwards are not clicking as what they used to be doing in 2019 - 2020 season.
William Jose, Otazawie, Fabio Silva, Vitinia, Nelson Semedo, Ryan Ait Nouri, Morgan Gibbs White, Max Killman, Fernando Macal have all been thrown into the fray these last 2 games and their efforts are finally showing dividends.
Excellent goals from Adama Traore and MGW more than cancelled out the Brighton captain's Dunk goal in the first half.
Next week, this young team faces Tottenham, knowing that they need to get as many points to keep many fans happy (I am one of them).
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Live High Train Low and High ; Research done on Hypoxic Training by Sports Scientists
The data and research done by Sports Scientists, Professors G. Millet, B.Roels,L.Schmitt,X.Woorens et al from multiple universities such as Institute of Sports Sciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland etc. is quite comprehensive.
There are typically 4 different types of key studies :
a) Live High Train High
b) Live High Train Low
c) Live High Train Low and High
d) Live Low and Train High
All these studies are as a result of the near miraculous performances of many athletes who participated in the 1960 Mexico City Olympics which was held at an elevation of 2250 m above sea level, with it, the air pressure was lower and the O2 level was also lower. Many sports scientists began to investigate the effects such as the increase in haematological capacity, or the blood bearing capacity of the human body, as well as the erythropoeitic effects - the production of more red blood cells when the body is subject to lower levels of O2.
The elite athletes all performed and gave fantastic results (Bob Beamon's long jump record was unbeaten for nearly 25 years after the feat he recorded in Mexico City's rarefied air).
The findings of Millet et al, are shown above, that various combinations of the 4 training strategies DO have a positive effect on the athletes performance when they resumed competition at sea levels. See above graph.
The findings suggest an increase in the level of aerobic capacity optimally 2 - 4 days (green highlights) after return to sea levels, but this is not 100% for all athletes.
From 14th to 28th day after the LHTH trainings, the effects are still apparent as seen from the graph (Orange highlights in graph).
Hence, it justifies the benefits of this type of training strategy.
QRA's Athletic Environmental Chamber can simulate altitudes with Oxygen levels up to 5000 m (O2 level of 13.5% or lower). Additinally, QRA can provide Sleep Rooms with altitude levels of up to 3500 m and corresponding O2 levels to match.
Hence, the LHTH, LHTL and the other configurations can easily be accomplished at sea levels without the need to move the entire set of athletes, nutritionists, physiotherapists, doctors and scientists to migrate for weeks to higher altitudes in the name of better performances.
We can provide the full suite of environments, in the Environmental Chamber in your building, anywhere in the world.
Temperature : - 20 C to 50 C
RH : 20 to 95%
Hypoxic : Sea Level to 5000 m
CO2 : maintain at 400 ppm
Solar : Entire Solar Spectrum.
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Sunday, April 4, 2021
A decent paced run around Pandan Reservoir 3rd April 2021 ; 4.24 pm - 5.03 pm ; Cool weather after rain
Here is the results of my Saturday afternoon run around Pandan Reservoir. My average pace is 6.36 min /km pretty decent for a 58 year old man. My worry at this age, is that I am accumulating a number of sports related injuries. My heart rate had hit 171 beats per minute which is more than 100% of the maximum heart rate, something which I should take serious note of.
Just after this run, I noticed that my Illio Tibial Band (ITB) around my left knee started to hurt again. I hurt this in January and now, this is the second time it is hurting - albeit not so painful where I need to resort to painkillers.
This is an old injury which will need time to heal and recover, just like my body.
Anyway, I will take a break of about 4 days after which I will return to this life long hobby
CARPE DIEM
Saturday, April 3, 2021
World's Most Complete Athletic Chamber - provided by QRA International Pte Ltd (Singapore Design)
View Inside Chamber ;
Rowing Machines x 2, Wind Simulators x 2,Cycle Machine x 1
Presenting the world's dedicated Athletic Environmental Chamber - QRA ; The 20 year old company has been amongst the first in the world to offer this to clients. The specifications of this chamber are generally in the range below :
Friday, April 2, 2021
Athletic Chamber in Australia Canberra - July 2018
This is the latest overseas Athletic Chamber in Canberra Australia 2018, the video shows the room (with polyurethane insulated panels) and while the installation had its issues and setbacks, the system ran perfectly.
Temperature and Humidity Controlled Room with Hypoxic O2 control.
Do enjoy the video and send over your comments
"Exceeding the Limits of our Imagination"
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Athletic Chamber for Rehabilitation of Athletes Doha, Qatar 2017 - 2021 The Solution
In my previous post, I had stated that there were problems at the start of the project in Doha, Qatar. I decided to take these problems and change them into challenges. Discussing with the factory engineers, I decided to give a simple layout plan for the chamber and the factory engineers had to innovate and work out a solution. Immediately after I landed from Doha in Singapore, I took a day to rest, and arranged for a followup meeting in Shenzhen the following day with the factory people arranging to meet me - taking the Expressway (some 3 hours drive) near the land crossing between China and Hong Kong.
1. Height Limitation
The total usable height of 3.8 m while it was a tough challenge, it was not impossible. We decided that since the total usable area was barely sufficient, we decided to place the cooling evaporators,fan units,blowers, expansion valves and grills above the ceiling of the chamber with drill throughs into the work space.
2. Structural Column just outside the chamber
We worked with the factory from Dongguan to provide a sliding door which was automated and activated by a push button. This would alleviate the area where a swing out door would not be practical since there was a large structural column just outside the main room of the chamber proper.
With the expertise of IB Trading and Contracting, providing manpower for transporting the chiller from the cargo loading bay at the back of the hospital to the top floor of the building. I must commend IB Trading and Contracting to be the best in the business in Qatar. Mr. Sreenath Parambath (M.D. of company) is to be commended for carrying out a sterling job in this project marshalling his many workers,technicians and engineers to ensure whatever needed to be done (creating lead in holes between floors, piping, noise suppression materials, manual labor and support staff etc.) was done.
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