Latif lives in Lahore, just 650 feet above sea level, where runs an adventure trekking company. He’s well-accustomed to the physical conditioning required for high altitude treks like this one ...

If it feels like every professional rider is doing altitude training camps these days, it’s because they are. Whole teams and individual pros are grabbing flights to places like Tenerife, Teide ...

There is nothing new or particularly novel about athletes seeking out high-altitude training locations to help them prepare ...

Altitude training can also initiate muscle adaptations. Only a few studies have looked into this effect because it involves taking a small muscle biopsy, Stellingwerff says, ...

Essentially no American runners used altitude training to prepare for Atlanta. Then, in 1997, Ben Levine and James Stray-Gundersen published a paper introducing the concept of "live high, ...

Getting altitude training right takes a lot of hard work, a lot of careful planning, and a little luck—which, for endurance athletes, is just the way we like it.