Video: Red Bull Testing with Angela Naeth and Jesse Thomas

See triathletes Angela Naeth and Jesse Thomas undergo extreme testing to maximize human performance.

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The purpose of Red Bull Project Endurance Version 3.0 was to investigate how muscle fibers — both slow and fast twitch — and even the brain are impacted by altitude to provide insights and potentially new training methodologies.

As part of the project, the athletes would wake up and be studied at sea level in Death Valley, California, and then immediately flown to Mammoth Mountain to repeat the tests at high altitude. Read more.

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