Altitude Chambers, a subsidiary of Altitude International Holdings, Inc. (ALTD), manufactures a variety of world-class reduced-oxygen training chambers, enabling competitive athletes of all kinds to train in an environment of simulated high altitude.
A WORLDWIDE REVOLUTION IN TRAINING AND PERFORMANCE
Altitude Chambers, a subsidiary of Altitude International Holdings, Inc. (ALTD), manufactures a variety of world-class reduced-oxygen training chambers, enabling competitive athletes of all kinds to train in an environment of simulated high altitude.
Official Altitude Training Partner of the
Orlando Magic
The Benefits
Training in altitude creates powerful training stresses that cannot be replicated any other way.
Scientifically proven to increase
- RBC – Angiogenesis – Myogenesis
- O2 efficiency – Cerebral and Muscular
- VO2 max – Cardiac Output
- Mitochondrial activity
- Aerobic & Anaerobic performance
MUSCULOSKELETAL REHABILITATION
- Maintain aerobic capacity with reduced training load
- Maintain muscle mass with reduced training load
- Up-regulation of growth hormone response to resistance training
- Reduced stress on locomotor system while producing similar physiologic strain and adaptation
For more information, please read our brochure:
Maximum Gains in Minimum Time
Our precision-engineered controlled oxygen-deficient environment, coupled with specific training protocols have numerous scientifically-proven benefits to maximize athletic training and performance.
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THE SCIENCE
Physical exercise in reduced oxygen (hypoxic) environments creates two potent metabolic stressors, which when combined, induce physiological changes within the human body. Specifically, Intermittent Hypoxic Training provokes a phenomenon know as Hypoxia Inducible Factors (HIF) which can lead to increased fiber cross-section (more muscle), increased mitochondrial density (more power), higher oxidation capacity (resulting in better endurance) and increased capillary to fiber ratio (more blood flow). These adaptations allow for performance improvements which are unattainable with any other training method and propel elite athletes to best-ever achievements.
Training with simulated altitude using the appropriate protocols has produced remarkable and documented improvements in performance in very short periods of time. The key to achieving maximum benefits from altitude is to create the consistent environment required and utilizing training protocols specifically designed to achieve the desired results.
Custom Solutions To Fit Your Needs
We manufacture and install 3 types of Altitude Chambers:
- Altitude (Altitude Simulation Only)
- Extended Ambient (Altitude + Temperature & Humidity)
- Extreme Performance Chambers (Extreme Altitude, Temperature, and Humidity)
Looking for Extreme Performance?
Altitude Chambers also designs Extreme Environmental Chambers that provide the exact range of extreme temperatures, humidities, and oxygen levels that you desire. This capability allows our clients to simulate the conditions of a winter in Green Bay or Denver while training in Dallas or Arizona, or to simulate the tropical climate of Miami while training in Foxboro, MA. For many years our systems have led the world with increasingly sophisticated designs and applications.
Our Simulated Altitude Chambers Produce Game-Changing Results
Along with the proven benefits to athletic performance, there is mounting scientific evidence that altitude exposure has a measurable positive impact on weight loss. There is also recent anecdotal evidence that a host of medical conditions including those characterized by diminished red blood cell counts, may be improved with the use of simulated altitude.
Altitude Chambers is committed to maintaining its leadership role in all altitude related research and commercial applications and is establishing relationships with leading medical and physiology experts to lead these potentially life-changing research and development efforts.
The Altitude Chambers Difference
Altitude Chambers delivers the best results achievable based on our clients’ specific needs.
Cutting-Edge Technology
Sophisticated Touch Screen control systems capable of successfully integrating the control of simulated altitude, temperature and humidity.
A unique design of Air Separation Unit allied to unique architecture and design features with only a single active part that provides for ultra-reliable operation and a design life of >15 years with exceptional performance capabilities.
position-specific training protocols
Our team of acclaimed sports scientists represent the world’s most accomplished in the formulation of these unique training techniques.
Proven training protocols that specifically target the required improvement – power, speed, sprint, endurance – allowing the desired training benefits to be achieved.
World-Class Support when you need it
From the initial design of your system to our post-sales support, ALTD provides wide-ranging benefits that are simply unmatched.
Partnered with the best!
Altitude Chambers — is the official altitude training partner of the Orlando Magic. With systems in the NFL, NBA and top collegiate teams, Altitude Chambers is ready to take your team to the next level.
Studies & Research
Our scientific, results-driven approach is backed by a mountain of research and medical studies covering the positive effects of altitude training. The content continues to grow as altitude training and the research associated with it become increasingly prevalent and eye-opening. The following section provides links to just some of these relevant studies:
- 5 Days of Sprint Training in Hypoxia on Performance and Muscle Energy Substances
- Advancing Hypoxic Training in Team Sports
- Altitude and Endurance Training – Rusko 2004
- Altitude Induced Limitations to Performance in Altitude
- Altitude Training and Haemoglobin Mass From Carbon Monoxide Rebreathing Method
- Application of Altitude Hypoixc Training by Elite Athletes – Wilber 2007
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- Brocherie_F MSSE15ip _Live high-train low and high_ hypoxic training improves team-sport performance
- Buchheit et al (2013) Adding heat to the LHTL altitude model in Ausie football
- Cardio Adaptations to Exercise and Training
- Combining heat stress and moderate hypoxia Girard Raciniais 2014
- Combining Hypoxic Methods For Peak Performance – Millet et al 2010
- Comparison of The Hypoxia Inhalation Test with Hypobaric Exposure
- Could Altitude Training Benefit Team Sports Players
- Does Altitude Training Increase Exercise Performance in Elite Athletes
- Effect of Interval Hypoxic Training on Psycho-Physiological Status of Healthy Subjects
- EPO Production Can be Enhanced by Normobaric Oxygen Breathing 2004
- Ergogenics of Hypoxia – Loffredo Glazer 2006
- Evidence for altitude and hypoxic training protocols – early 2012 update
- Exercise training in normobaric hypoxia for Indurance Runners Dufour- et al 2006
- Exercise Training in Normobaric Hypoxia III Zoll et al 2006
- Exercise training in normobaric hypoxia for Indurance Runners Dufour et al 2006 Part 2
- Exercise Training in Normobaric Hypoxia II – Ponsot et al 2006
- Exercising in Hypoxia as an Innovative Treatment
- Faiss et al. (2013) Advancing hypoxic training in team sports
- Football and Altitude – A FIFA Vision
- Gatterer et al 2014. shuttle-run sprint training in hypoxia
- Heat Acclimation Improves Cellular Tolerance and Exercise Performance in Acute Hypoxia – Ben Lee et al
- High intensity kayak performance after adaptation to intermittent hypoxia Bonetti Et Al 2006
- Human Monocyte Heat Shock Protein 72 Responses Ben Lee
- Hypoxia and Asthmatic Athletes
- Hypoxia increases Muscle Hypertrophy NIshimura
- Hypoxia Resistance Localised and Systemic Methods Scott et all 2014
- Hypoxic In House Study Watford FC
- Hypoxic Training and Therapy Color Hypomed Review
- IHT and Cyclists
- IHT Clinical Summary Tables
- IHT in Endurance Athletes
- IHT Pre Olympic Games
- Impact of Submaximal Exercise During Heat and Hypoxia on The Cardiovascular and Monocyte Responses – Ben Lee
- Individual Response to Training and Competition at Altitude
- Influence of Hypoxia Training on Metabolic Risk – Haufe et al 2008
- Intermittent Hypoxic Training Improves YO-YO IR2
- Lactate Acid Improvements in Hypoxia
- Live High Train Low – Levine
- Live High Train Low Increases Hbmass in Elite Water Polo Players
- Live Low Train High
- Mitochondrial Improvements in Endurance Runners – 2006
- Muscle Tissue Adaptations to Hypoxia – Hoppeler
- Natural and Simulated Altitude
- Oxygen less is better more is better – Greg Whyte and Charles Pedlar
- Physiological Reports – 2014 – Kon – Effects of systemic hypoxia on human muscular adaptations to resistance exercise
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- Relationship Between Changes in Haemoglobin Mass and Maximal Oxygen Uptake After Hypoxic Exposure
- Repeat Sprint Training in Hypoxia – Galvin et Al 2013
- Response of Skeletal Muscle Mitochondria to Hypoxia – Hoppeler et al
- Roels Mitochodrial Function – JAP 2006
- Running Mechanical Alterations During Repeated Treadmill Sprints in Hot Versus Hypoxic Environments
- Sanitorium Orbita Kursk (4180 case studies) 1997
- Saunders Running Economy – JAP 2004
- September 2012 Research Update – Altitude and Intermittent Hypoxic Training
- Significant Molecular and Systemic Adaptations After Repeat Sprint Training – Faiss et al 2013
- Sprint interval training in hypoxia Stimulatess Glycolytic Enzyme Activity – Guype et al 2013
- The Ergogenics of Hypoxia Training in Athletes – Glazer Loffredo
- Year-to-year Variability in Haemoglobin Mass to Two Altitude Training Camps
- Exposure and Exercise Training in Hypoxic Conditions as a New Obesity Therapeutic Modality
- Theraputic use of exercising in hypoxia promises and limitations
- Endurance training and reduced physical stress geriatric rehabilitation
- High intensity exercise in hypoxia: Beneficial aspects and potential drawbacks
- SAT for Treatment of Diseases
- Tissue Engineering and Gene Therapy in Orthopaedic Surgery
- Walter Reed Medical Center Study
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- Hoppeler article
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- Haufe et al (2008) Influence of hypoxia training on metabolic risk
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- Color Hypomed review
- Girard et al 2017. Walking in Hypoxia – An Efficient Treatment to Lessen Mechanical Constraints and Improve Health in Obese Individuals
- Hypobaric Hypoxia Causes Body Weight
- Influences of Normobaric Hypoxic Training
- Is Altitude Training An efficient treatment for obesity
- Wiesner et al 2009. Influences of normobaric hypoxia training on physical fitness and metabolic risk markers in overweight to obese subjects
- Hypoxia and weight loss
- 2016 papers on benefits of hypoxia
