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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alex Hutchinson is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist and Outside’s Sweat Science columnist, covering the latest research on endurance and outdoor sports. This month’s issue of Medicine & ...

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.

It seems like a simple-enough concept: Train where there’s less oxygen, force your body to adapt, and come back down to low altitude to race fitter and faster. Indeed, the allure of altitude training ...

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 ...

Most men hit the gym to build muscle, drop a few pounds, or sculpt a six-pack. Nothing wrong with that—until you’re on a mountain. Mother Nature doesn’t care about your physique. The only thing you ...