Originally Posted by eb314

I believe that high altitude training just adjusts your body to produce more red blood cells to absorb more oxygen, and it doesn't necessarily matter whether you're training there or just living there and not training, because your body will produce the extra red blood cells anyway. I could be wrong about this though, I'm no expert. But yeah you will lose the extra cells after a few days back at normal altitude. Hey, you can always just take some EPO, it does the same thing