How Serious are you regarding your GSD's Conditioning? - Page 1

http://www.go2altitude.com/dog.html

How does a dog sittting in a chamber improve their conditioning?  Don't you have to be acutally doing some type of training in the elevated chamber?  Those two greyhounds look like they are chilling out ;-)

The modern studies have shown that for optimum performance an athlete shoud train low, and live and sleep high. The tent in this scenario would be used for lounging, eating, and sleeping.  If you read the history section of the Ad, it seems this company believes that the trick to maximum performance improvement lies not in the duration of the stay at altitude or mode of acclimatisation ("sleeping", "training", etc.), but in the number of transitions from LOW to HIGH and back. I can tell you that World Class Athletes like Lance Armstrong, have been sleeping and lounging in these tents for years.

http://www.rice.edu/~jenky/sports/altitude.html
http://sportsci.org/traintech/altitude/wgh.html

Hmm, interesting.  Before i joind the Navy I lived iN SLC Utah and worked at Snow Bird, I know that I had a much easier time in bootcamp than most others did because I was used to snowboarding and living at higher altitudes, but I always attributed it to the physical exertion.

How does your dog tell you that he is not feeling so well, and needs a break from the tent?  If you were living in there, and you started to feel dizzy, you could easily climb out, but a dog may not know any better...

I would think it would be quite obvious if a dog was uncomfortable in a tent. I have worked dogs and jogged with dogs at 14,000 ft with no problems. I have lived with my dogs at 10,000 ft. If a dog couldnt handle several 1 to 2 hour relaxation periods in a tent of 8858 to 14,763 ft altitude, why would one want to bother conditioning such a weak and poor specimen of a dog anyway?

I see!  Be curious to hear from anyone who uses one of these!  Very interesting though for sure.