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 ...

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.

There’s a reason elite runners flock to towns such as Park City, Utah (altitude 6,936 feet above sea level), Flagstaff, ...

The mountains overlooking the BYU campus is one of the unique aspects of BYU, creating a beautiful backdrop that shapes ...

If you're a competitive athlete, or even just an active person who wants to get in better aerobic shape, go up to the mountains ... If you’re a competitive athlete, or even just an active person who ...

There are two main ways of manipulating environmental conditions to get an extra physiological boost from your workout. One is altitude training, and the other is heat training. So can you combine ...

With the London Olympics just four months away, the best athletes in the world are heading for the hills – or, alternately, crawling into hermetically sealed sleeping tents and pressurized houses.

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 ...

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 Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. It’s on the third of 10 hills on the stationary bike that my heart starts to pound heavy in my chest. My legs ...