Ontake Nigorigo High Altitude Training Center

Athlete

Improvement

High altitude refers to a low pressure, low oxygen environment.
Training in such an environment creates various physiological responses and adaptations in the body. These changes are expected to lead to the effects of high altitude training, physical fitness, athletic ability and competition performance.

High altitude training is considered to have three main effects, and can be expected not only to improve endurance, but also to improve high middle power (anoxic capacity).In addition, it has been found that the effect can be obtained in a short period of time (within a few days to 2 weeks). From these three effects, high altitude training can be expected to improve the competitiveness of a wide range of competitions and events.

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Results

List of results of major competition groups who used this facility
As of August 10, 2019

National

Japan Wrestling Association

Wrestling men’s freestyle
2018 World Championship Freestyle
  • 57kg class / 3rd
  • 65kg class / 1st
  • 92kg class / 3rd

Japan Paracycling Federation

Bicycle
2019 UCI Paracycling Road World Cup TT
  • WC3 / 5th
  • WC2 / 5th
2019 UCI Paracycling Track World Championship
  • TT WC3 / 2nd
  • Scratch MC2/ 7th
2019 UCI Paracycling Road World Cup
  • WC3 / 1st

All Japan Taekwondo Association

Taekwondo
The 5th Asia Para Open Taekwondo Championship
  • K43 / 3rd
24th World Taekwondo Championship
  • 4th round advance

Works team

Toenec Corporation.

Athletics
New Year Ekiden 2019
  • 17th
23rd Asian Athletics Championship
  • Men’s 5000m / 4th
The 103rd Japan Athletics Championship
  • Men’s 10000m / 5th
  • Men’s 5000m / 3rd

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Athletics
New Year Ekiden 2019
  • 20th
The 103rd Japan Athletics Championship
  • Men’s 3000m SC / 2nd, 11th
  • Women’s 3000m SC / 3rd
  • Men’s 1500m / 6th

The Higo Bank, Ltd.

Athletics
The 38th All Japan Business Opposition Women’s Ekiden Competition
  • 17th
The 38th Osaka International Women’s Marathon
  • 11th
102nd Japan Athletics Championship
  • 11th

GMO

Athletics
Tokyo Marathon 2019
  • 10th
Haspa Marathon Hamburg 2019
  • 11th, 19th
The 103rd Japan Athletics Championship
  • Men’s 10000m / 21st

Kyudenko Corporation.

Athletics
New Year Ekiden 2019
  • 15th
102nd Japan Athletics Championship
  • Men’s 3000m SC / 3rd
  • Men’s 5000m / 8th

Chudenko Corporation.

Athletics
New Year Ekiden 2019
  • 13th
The 66th All Japan Business Team Competition Track and Field Championship
  • Men’s 1500m / 8th

SONY HC BRAVIA Ladies

Field hockey
All Japan Championship 2013-2018
  • 6 consecutive wins

Hida Takayama Black Bulls Gifu

Handball
The 43rd Japan League
  • 6th

University

Osaka Gakuin University

Athletics
2018 All Japan University Women’s Selection Ekiden Race
  • 7th
The 36th All Japan University Women’s Ekiden Championship Championship
  • 7th
2018 Japanese student athletics school championship
  • Women’s 5000m / 6th
  • Women’s 10000m / 2nd, 10th

Meijo University

Athletics
2018 All Japan University Women’s Selection Ekiden Race
  • 1st
The 36th All Japan University Women’s Ekiden Championship Championship
  • 1st
2018 Japanese student athletics school championship
  • Women’s 1500m / 1st
  • Women’s 5000m / 1st
  • Women’s 10000m / 1st

High school

Tokyo University of Agriculture 2nd High School

Athletics
Southern Kyushu sports competition 2019
  • Men’s 1500m / 9th
  • Men’s 5000m / 9th

Takaoka Koryo High School

Athletics
The 69th National High School Ekiden
  • Men’s / 37th

Rakunan High School

Athletics
Southern Kyushu sports competition 2019
  • Men’s 1500m / 6th
  • Men’s 3000m SC / 2nd, 7th
The 69th National High School Ekiden
  • Men’s / 9th

Gifu Girls High School

Basketball
The 71st National High School Basketball Championship
  • 1st
Southern Kyushu sports competition 2019
  • Women’s basketball / 2nd

Many athletes, such as citizen runners participating in competitions such as marathons and trail runs, and elementary and junior high school students who have just started full-scale athletics, have updated their records of high-altitude training.

Precautions

Ontake Nigorigo High Altitude Training Center is ideally suited for highland training, but please keep the following points in mind.

  • 01The oxygen partial pressure of air is about 81% of flat ground.
  • 02Arterial oxygen saturation (SpO2) in the blood is 3% lower at rest. Although there are individual differences, it may decrease by nearly 10% during exercise. (It is dangerous if it drops by 20% or more: Altitude sickness)
  • 03Since the oxygen in the air is thin, exercise at an intensity of about 60-80% of the flat ground until you get used to it.
  • 04If you feel headache, nausea, dizziness, insomnia (lack of sleep), arrhythmia, poor physical condition, etc., do not exercise excessively.
  • 05By repeating high altitude training, you will get used to exercise in high altitude environments.
  • 06In high altitude environments, the exercise load is high without having to practice hard.
  • 07 About 20 days (continuous or intermittent) training period is required to exercise with the same feeling as the flat ground.