Is It Unhealthy To Train In Masks?
Is It Unhealthy To Train In Masks? Masks and face-coverings have been promoted and even mandated in the USA and all over the world to help control the spread of Covid19 despite there being little to no data directly showing their effectiveness in doing so. (1) However, the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) and other “experts” recommend their use, so some states and counties have mandated them. The scope of this article isn’t to state whether I am pro or against mask mandates, but to address a question I get asked a lot, “Is it safe to train in masks?” Luckily, before we even have a direct, controlled study on if masks prevent the spread of Covid19, the good folks at the Scandanavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports published a darn-good study on this, and the result is conclusive enough for me. Training in masks, while annoying, will not harm you and will minimally effect performance. (2) In a nutshell, researchers took 16 healthy young males, strapped either an N95 mask or