Sentences with phrase «train at a high altitude»

A handful of studies have found that athletes training at high altitudes tend to lose weight.

If so, he says, this could lead to new, legal ways to boost red blood cell production in athletes, much like using oxygen tents or training at high altitudes.

The reason sleeping at high altitude is beneficial is because sometimes training at high altitude means you lose speed as you physically can not push yourself as hard as you can at sea level.

It worked for a while; she spent three months in early 2012 training at high altitude in Kenya, running alongside the world's best, while also doing legal research and writing briefs on her laptop, and e-mailing the work back to Chattanooga.

Not exact matches

The study found that runners can shave crucial seconds off their time if they live at high altitudes but train closer to sea level.

Many competitive endurance athletes follow a «Live High — Train Low» training regimen, in which they live at moderate altitudes and do their easiest workouts there, saving their most intense training for altitudes closer to sea level.

Additionally, one's calorie expenditure may seem to be higher during altitude training, but this is less likely to be due to being at elevation and more likely to be attributed to the hard workouts athletes generally go through while training up there.

Athletes who are training for endurance could be racing at a higher altitude than what their used to, like outside on a mountain path or hill.

«At a high - altitude, high - volume training camp, we will add more calories, like sides of butter, avocado, salad dressing and mixed nuts,» Chef Chacosky says.

On its way the train travels across 291 bridges, through 91 tunnels and across the Oberalp Pass on the highest point at 2,033 m (6,670 ft) in altitude.

The highest point along the route is the 6,669 ft Oberalp Pass, and due to the altitude of the mountains it winds through, the train travels at an average of around 24 miles an hour.