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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

If your preferred form of cardiovascular exercise has grown far too easy for your impossibly fit self, perhaps you've considered supplementing your workout regimen with an elevation training mask.

My high school cross-country coach used to tell me to go run when it’s blisteringly hot. I said no. But now I wish that I would have run in June and July. Recent research reveals that running in hot, ...

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 ...

Over the past decade, altitude and hypoxic training have progressively become better known and even common among elite cyclists and other endurance athletes. From the complete opposite spectrum comes ...

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 ...

Over the last few years, heat adaptation has been one of the hottest (pun intended) topics in endurance science. Training in hot weather, according to some (but not all!) recent studies, may help you ...