321 Oteha Valley Road, Albany NZ.
321 Oteha Valley Road, Albany NZ.
The Simplex is a closed circuit rebreathing device designed to provide accurate, simple and safe application of the Hypoxic state without disturbing training regimes, complicating already complex lifestyles, demanding travel schedules or injury recuperation complications.
The Simplex allows team based sports people, for the first time, to truly be able to gain the tremendous performance and health benefits directly associated from this type of training, year round.
It is usually defined as repeated episodes of hypoxia (lack of oxygen) interspersed with normoxic periods (normal oxygen delivery). Mechanisms of adaption to intermittent hypoxia allow an organism not only to survive in the conditions of sharp oxygen deficit but also promote its steadiness to other types of stress, such as emotional stress. physical loading, hypokinesia etc.
The Simplex is a closed circuit rebreathing apparatus in which the patient consumes oxygen, while the exhaled carbon dioxide is absorbed by the absorber. Therefore the concentration of oxygen in the air the patient breathed decreases – this creates the hypoxic mixture used for hypoxic intermittent training.
A device for individual hypoxic training, intended for the creation of the Simplex is hypoxic gas mixture (air mixture with lowered oxygen content) in a closed circuit with the patient breathing this mixture for curative and training purposes. The method being short term (several minutes) periodic impact of gradual normobaric hypoxia (normal air) alternated with intervals of breathing the hypoxic gas mixture in the simplex.