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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To prepare for two World Cup group stage matches in the high altitude of Mexico, South Korea trained for about three weeks in ...

A new workout accoutrement is appearing more frequently at the Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall gym and elsewhere: sleek masks that look like modified M40 gas masks -- streamlined, high-tech and just a ...

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 ...