High-intensity interval training is important, but coming back to your breath can be crucial to helping you train.

Question: I am a competitive ultramarathon runner. Will training at high altitude improve my time? Answer: High Altitude is typically defined as being above 5,000 feet in elevation. When athletes ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A runner who trains at sea level and races at high altitude versus a runner who trains high and races high is like comparing apples to oranges. The athlete who logs his training miles in the mountains ...

Go for a run on a brutally hot, humid day, or log some miles at a higher elevation than you’re used to, and it feels like you’ve suddenly lost weeks of fitness progress. Heat and altitude put your ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Thick, hot chlorinated air immediately engulfs anyone who walks through the doors at Northern Arizona University’s Wall Aquatics Center. Between rhythmic slapping of arms hitting ...

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.