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.

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 ...

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 ...

The grim reality of 6-hour Zwift sessions, 'bike skills drills,' and some very dubious meals leak from a frozen Uno-X camp on ...

Training for the Tour de France looks very different today compared to how it did a few decades ago. Weeks-long training camps held at high altitude are now the norm, and riders spend less time racing ...

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 and hypoxic exposure represent a multifaceted approach in sports physiology and medical research, where controlled exposure to environments with reduced oxygen availability is used ...

One of the nuggets that stuck with me from David Epstein’s 2013 book The Sports Gene was that the two fastest American marathoners at the time, Shalane Flanagan and Ryan Hall, both spent some of their ...