Altitude Training
Improving health and wellbeing and enhancing your sports performance.
Health & Wellbeing
Training at Altitude vs Training at Sea Level
In comparison to training at sea level, training at altitude gives you greater fitness benefits in a shorter period of time. Major Benefits:
- Burn more calories
- Improved efficiency of aerobic training
- Less stress on your joints for greater aerobic benefits
- Improved Resting Metabolic Rate
Altitude Training and Weight Management
Exercise is a key part of any weight-loss plan. It burns calories whilst being performed, but it ALSO causes calories to be burned in the hours following the exercise session... and this is where Hypoxic (= altitude) Training can take your fitness program to new heights!
Sports Performance
Oxygen is the limiting factor in sports performance. When insufficient oxygen is delivered to the muscles fatigue sets in.
Hypoxic Training improves oxygen delivery and utilisation at all levels. In a double-blind placebo controlled study presented at the European College of Sports Science in 2004, German researchers presented some remarkable findings. Highly trained athletes demonstrate astounding 40% anaerobic performance boost (forearm exercise until exhaustion), and 20% aerobic performance increase (cycling until exhaustion).
- Increased V02 max (max rate of oxygen usage)
- Enhanced power output and speed
- Improved strength and endurance
- Increased exercise-till-exhaustion (ETE) time
- Reduced recovery time after exertion
- Decreased resting heart-rate and blood pressure
- Maintenance of cardiovascular fitness when injured
- Diminished overall fatigue
