OK Buckeyes, this has to be cheatin'!!

Terry O'Keefe · Aug 21, 2006

Of course I think he'd be better prepared for Austin, if he'd turn on the heat in his room and try to live at 95 degrees!!

OSU player trains even when he's sleeping
High-altitude simulator gives wide receiver an edge on field, he says
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Doug Lesmerises
Plain Dealer Reporter

Columbus- Anthony Gonzalez sleeps in a tent. The Ohio State junior wide receiver also studies in his tent, plays Xbox in his tent and writes e-mails from his laptop in his tent.

"It's very difficult to explain to people that you sleep in a tent," said Gonzalez, 21. But the St. Ignatius High School grad be lieves his sleeping ar rangement will give the No. 1-ranked Buck eyes a minuscule edge in their pursuit of an other national champi onship.

What Gonzalez calls home is a hypoxic altitude simulation training system, a 6-by-6-by-8-foot plastic chamber that he places over his bed. A device that looks like a humidifier sucks air from the tent and removes oxygen until Gonzalez feels as if he's living at an altitude of 8,000 feet. With the percentage of oxygen reduced from 20.9 to 13, the rarefied air is pumped through a plastic hose and back into the tent, which Gonzalez climbs in and zips shut.

The contraption is part of a "train low, rest high" method that endurance athletes such as cyclist Lance Armstrong have embraced for a decade.

The idea is to increase the number of red blood cells through prolonged exposure to simulated altitude. That improves the body's ability to carry oxygen, which increases endurance and shortens recovery time.

Then, by training at sea level, an athlete can work out longer and more intensely, getting the best of both heights. The altitude exposure typically takes three weeks to have any effect.

Last summer after consulting some skeptical doctors and talking with his parents, Gonzalez bought a system for $5,000 from Colorado Altitude Training.

He was told he was the first college football player to commit to a life in plastic.
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Ohio State WR Lives in Bubble

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Don Ballard · Aug 21, 2006

Are you sure you want to play this game under these circumstances?

Don

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