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 ...

Human athletes have long utilized training at high altitudes to improve their oxygen-carrying capacity, so it should come as no surprise that trainers of equine athletes have tried similar methods.

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 ...

What is altitude training? One runner who moves to Aspen, tries out the training plan to see how it works for her. Here's what to know. Training at high elevations is both physically taxing and ...

One of the effects of high-altitude running is that your muscles receive less oxygen than they are used to(iStock) Running might seem difficult to some. But running ...

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 ...

The first time Lisa Lewis walked into a "mile-high" fitness class at her gym in Pleasanton, she had a few reservations about just what kind of new torture she'd signed up for. "I walked in here and my ...

Altitude training and hypoxic exposure represent a multifaceted approach in sports physiology and medical research, where controlled exposure to environments with reduced oxygen availability is used ...

PLEASANTON — LeBron James and Michael Phelps use it. Tiger Woods has one in his home. And now, Bay Area gym rats can soar to new heights of cardiovascular fitness in the largest AirFit altitude ...

My first visit to high altitude didn’t go well. I was at a training camp in the French Alps, and on one of our easy days my ...