It’s common for athletes to seek new ways to improve their athletic performance. One popular strategy is high altitude training, also known as high elevation training. This method involves training at ...

Despite the limited research on the effects of altitude (or hypoxic) training interventions on team-sport performance, players from all around the world engaged in these sports are now using altitude ...

THE NETHERLANDS, January 30. IT is a remarkable accomplishment, an Olympic swim coach who finishes his PhD on the eve of "London 2012". Dr. Martin Truijens completed his Doctoral Thesis "Work in ...

Every May, many of the world's top cyclists decamp to a lonely mountain range in southern Spain. The Athletic went along to ...

The basic idea is pretty straightforward: you head to the mountains (or crawl into your altitude tent) to force your body to adapt to lower oxygen levels, then you come back to sea level and kick ass ...

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 ...

The turning point of this summer’s Tour de France came high on a mountain pass in the French Alps. It was a result of years of training — and possibly, according to a study released Monday, a ...

The weeks prior to important competitions, you can sometimes find professional athletes in beautiful areas of Colorado or Utah. But they are for sure not there for a wellness vacation and fun hiking ...