HBOT - Flushes out lactic acid build up to train harder.

How do we limit the lactic acid build up and what can be done to avoid lactic acid build up?

The reason your muscles pain and ache in the gym after a number of rigorous exercise, or after a few track practices, is because the acidity in your muscles is forcing you to stop so that your muscles can clear out all that acid build up once the muscles have relaxed. This is a natural response.

During training, glucose molecule splits into two molecules of pyruvic acid. One of the molecules enter the muscle cells, which in combination with oxygen, produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP – adenosine triphosphate) – the muscle power supply. When there is not enough oxygen to create ATP, pyruvic acid turns into lactic acid, which dissolves in the blood and is being removed gradually. But during intense exercise, it is collected in the muscles, causing fatigue.

In short: when there is not enough oxygen to create ATP, pyruvic acid turns into lactic acid, which dissolves in the blood and is being removed gradually. But during intense exercise, lactic acid  is collected in the muscles, causing fatigue.

The “burn” you feel from lactic acid in training is your body telling you to allow your muscle to recover before it snaps ultimately. If you continually load a muscle, eventually the energy stores will deplete, muscles can be damaged and oxygenation is needed.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy saturates the body, giving the needed oxygen to produce ATP and removes lactic acid, which causes fatigue and prevents tissue damage.

The higher amount of oxygen helps to increase performance and recover faster after exercise also improving brain functions that could make a split second difference in the outcome of the competition.