When elites like Kellyn Taylor—who trains in Flagstaff, Arizona—and Emma Coburn—who trains in Crested Butte, Colorado—work out at elevations around 6,000 to 8,000 feet above sea level, then you know ...

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 ...

Uncrowned is a new destination for all things MMA, boxing, wrestling, and more, featuring Ariel Helwani. Altitude training refers to exposing the body to hypoxic environments (those which limit the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever dash through the airport in Salt Lake City? Worse yet, have you ever run a 5K in Denver? Even if you live at high altitude, you’re bound to be more winded and considerably slower than you would ...

Just a few steps inside the front door, an autographed Lance Armstrong poster greets visitors to Colorado Altitude Training. The cyclist is strategically perched — for peddling, as well as pedaling.

As elite athletes prepare for the 2012 London Olympics, many will be seeking to maximise their impact with training sessions at high altitudes. A popular destination is the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, ...