Why Choose Altitude Training?

Benefits & Science

What Is Altitude Training?

Spokane, WA

Altitude training is working out with restricted oxygen with the intention of creating physiological changes within the body. These changes help elevate your performance, endurance, and recovery as an athlete by training your body to create more red blood cells. These red blood cells deliver more Oxygen to our muscles, lungs, organs, joints and injured tissue.

Here at the Oxygen Altitude Training Studio in Spokane, we utilize the leading altitude training technology to simulate a high altitude conducive to your performance goals and level. Not only can altitude training help you make the most of your training in a shorter time frame, but it can also help you reap more benefits than you’d get at sea level or at the level you live in.

Benefits Of Training Under Altitude

To be at your optimum, you have to combine mobility, strength, and recovery (our core principles here at the Oxygen Altitude Training Studio). Adding in altitude training boosts the benefits of all three. That means higher performance and a lower chance of injury.

Virtually every Olympic-level and world-class athlete in running, cycling, swimming, and triathlons implements some level of altitude training into their yearly training program. Here are a few benefits that highlight why:

Accelerated Strength

Just as speed and endurance is integral to athletic performance, so is strength. Doing strength training in a hypoxic environment can boost your training capacity at each session, which makes the body use different energy sources to manage the added stress. We call this Capillarization; formation of increased capillaries to a muscle. An increase in capillaries results in an increase of blood flow to a muscle. As we increase blood flow to specific muscle groups, we also get an increase supply of oxygen and nutrients that give an increase in energy.

This teaches your body to adapt to the added stress at a physiological level. Training in this format presents a great opportunity for Spokane team sports or as an individual to increase your performance and be at your optimum.

Better Mobility

Take your mobility to a whole new level by exercising in a hypoxic environment. Our high-altitude training studio offers multiple yoga and cross-training classes that push your arms, legs, hips, spine, and shoulders to their max.

Our classes focus on increasing range of motion, flexibility to help reduce injury, improve performance and recovery.

Improved Recovery

Your body has a limited capacity to increase its antioxidants and control-free radicals. Some research even suggests that long, intense exercise can create more oxidative stress than people can handle.

Heavy and sustained training produces large amounts of free radicals, which can outstrip your system’s buffering capacity and leave the body susceptible to long-term oxidative stress. This can increase your risk of injury, increase inflammation, contribute to many diseases, and even cause you to age faster over time. The solution? Add hypoxic training to your recovery program. It helps decrease oxidative stress, reduce inflammation, and recover muscles faster

And More

Amplify pulmonary oxygen absorption.

Increase O2 uptake and delivery (VO2 max) for enhanced power output and increased speed, strength, and endurance.

Boost erythropoietin hormone (EPO) production by the kidneys, stimulating the generation of red blood cells (RBCs) and enhanced oxygen transportation through the body.

Increase capillarization for greater oxygen delivery to the tissues, muscles, and brain.

Enhance production and rejuvenation of mitochondria, allowing more efficient utilization of oxygen.

Decrease average heart rate and blood pressure.

Increase human growth hormone production and release.

Stimulate fat metabolism.

The Science Behind Hypoxic Training

One of athletes’ largest hurdles is the ability to carry and metabolize oxygen. Since oxygen is critical to energy production, exposure to high altitudes or hypoxia (lower oxygen levels) challenges the body to adapt in order to maintain homeostasis (or equilibrium).

At the Oxygen Altitude Training Studio, we utilize a high-tech machine to lower the oxygen level in the room, creating different atmospheric pressures to help simulate training in a natural environment. This helps improve the body’s ability to carry and deliver oxygen from the lungs to the blood to the working muscles, which can have a significant impact on performance, strength, and recovery for athletes in Spokane and beyond.

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Our Studio Features

Our studio features top amenities for Spokane athletes of all backgrounds. Here, you’ll find everything you need to accelerate your performance, increase your mobility, improve your strength, and boost your recovery.

700 square feet of training space.

Yoga classes for up to 20 people.

Cross-training classes for up to 15 people.

Altitude range of 5,000 to 20,000 feet of elevation.

Open space for floor training and yoga at altitude.

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Ready to invest in your health and wellness? Start your training today by taking advantage of one of the many services here at the Oxygen Altitude Training Studio in Spokane.

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