The hypothesis is that living at high altitudes and training at lower altitudes can help to improve an athlete’s performance.

You will need to enlist the help of 20 long-distance runners between ages 16 to 20 years, a 5 km cross country path, a stopwatch, a high altitude hill top residence rented for 1 month, a low altitude sea level residence rented for 1 month, daily transportation for the athletes, an athletics coach, and writing materials. You will divide the athletes into two groups and have them live and train at different altitudes for one month. After the month, you will have them run the same 5 km cross country route and compare their times.

You will need 20 long-distance runners between ages 16 to 20 years, a 5 km cross country path, a stopwatch, a high altitude hill top residence rented for 1 month, a low altitude sea level residence rented for 1 month, daily transportation for the athletes, an athletics coach, and writing materials.

The results showed that the athletes who lived at the high altitude residence but trained at low altitude were able to better their performance significantly, over the period of 1 month, whilst the athletes who both lived and trained at low altitude managed to improve their performance only marginally.

This science project is interesting because it explores the concept of living at high altitudes and training at lower altitudes to see if it can help athletes improve their performance.

Consider replicating high altitude living conditions using an Altitude Tent (such as the Colorado Altitude Training system). Alternatively, this experiment can also be done on other sports like swimming, cycling and triathlons.

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