Spending sizeable chunks of the season at high altitude has become commonplace, but is altitude training harming the sport in ...

Ordinarily, trekking into high alpine zones requires days or even weeks of altitude acclimatization to help you adjust to the fewer oxygen particles you'll be taking in each breath. Weird things ...

This month’s issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise features a debate on the merits of “hypoxic training”—that is, training in the thin air of real or simulated altitude for the purposes of ...

Altitude training refers to exposing the body to hypoxic environments (those which limit the amount of oxygen reaching the tissues) long enough to elicit physiological adaptations. These adaptations ...

Cyclists and long-distance runners have historically trained at higher altitudes (between 6,000 and 10,000 feet above seas level) then returned to sea level to improve their athletic performance. But ...

On the left, some of the subjects—call them super responders—saw a drop of more than 20 mmHg. On the right, we have some non-responders, and even some negative responders, whose blood pressure ...

Leading up to the Olympic trials earlier this year, local running star Max King slept in an altitude training tent almost every night. The tent fits over a mattress in a spare room of his house, next ...

If your preferred form of cardiovascular exercise has grown far too easy for your impossibly fit self, perhaps you've considered supplementing your workout regimen with an elevation training mask.

There's a lot of talk about high-altitude training and the benefits it brings—but just what are these benefits, and are they worthwhile? This question opens up a number of topics about the effects of ...

Tomorrow evening in Sydney, the ball will be bounced, marking the start of the first match in the 2012 AFL season. For the 18 clubs taking the field this year, it marks the culmination of months of ...

Some AFL teams spend the off season at high altitude. kangaroos.com.au You might have heard about athletes and other sportspeople absconding to high-altitude locations for training. Indeed altitude ...