CAT-430: A Tent With Serious Altitude
For years, cyclists, runners, skiers, triathletes and other aerobic athletes had a choice: they move to high-altitude locales (like Boulder, Colorado) or they could lose.
The reason for this? As you probably know, the thin air at high altitude stimulates production of the oxygen-carrying red blood cells that make aerobic exercise easy.
All this changed in 2002, when Colorado Altitude Training (headquartered, not coincidentally, in Boulder, Colorado) launched its first simulated altitude tent. Suddenly athletes based in Miami, New York, or LA could have the benefits of living at 12,000 feet.
For a mere $7,745, you, too, can get high with the CAT-430, Colorado Altitude Training's walk-in tent.
More than seven thousand dollars may seem steep, but ask yourself: how much is it worth to beat your friends in the local 5k? how much is it worth to rule the Versa-Climber at the gym?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
jmchez May 20th 2006 10:44AM
Great! So now rich people will have an extra competitive advantage in athletics. Oh, wait! They have it in everything else.
Jackie May 21st 2006 1:37PM
jmchez has a point. Too bad we can't level the playing field a little more. The rich have advantages, flat-out.
Christopher Jun 28th 2006 11:38AM
I don't think that it's any different than a cyclist splurging $5k for a sweet road or tri- bike. If performance really matters to them, people will do what they need to do to train their bodies. I've got lots of dirt-poor pro friends who even rent the tents from CAT for a couple months before big races. And I've heard rumors that the tent prices are coming down this summer.
scott Jul 14th 2006 11:00AM
I don't guess there are any plans out there so a poor guy like me can possible build his own altitude tent.?