Altitude Training

As Dan Puder, an MMA fighter, shadowboxes in a sealed room at the Fortune gym on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, a small machine whirs in the corner, steadily sucking oxygen out of the air. That little contraption makes his body think it’s working out at 12,000 feet above sea level, so it starts [...]

Check out this blog entry by Everyday Health contributor and Hypoxico user Bryan:

After a few days of high-altitude training — at sea level — using the Hypoxico system, I’ve gotten a taste of what high altitude feels like.Basically, how you feel when you breathe thin air depends on what you’re doing while you’re breathing it.
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Hypoxico is proud to announce our new partnership with Performance and Nutrition Consulting! Lead by the former manager of the Athletes Performance Lab at the USOC, Dr. Krista Austin aims to help athletes excel in their sport by maximizing physical and nutritional health.  Dr. Austin is the foremost expert in altitude training in the [...]

This August, Hypoxico employees Brian Oestrike and Matt Eckert will be teaming up to race down the Missouri River in the Missouri 340! Starting in Kansas City and ending in St. Charles, competitors will be given 88 hours to complete the course. Along the way they will encounter wind, heat, bugs and rain, all while [...]

After being delayed for three days in Talkeetna due to poor weather, Slava and I finally departed to start our climb of Denali in the afternoon of May 29th via a tiny Cessna operated by Hudson Air. Because of our strong pre-acclimatization, we were a little bummed to lose a few days and wanted to [...]