ATHLETE 4D ALTITUDE TRAINING PROGRAMME

Athlete trail running at Lac De Chéserys, with the Mont Blanc in the background.

It’s here! The first Altitude Training Facility in the North East. Athlete 4D is pleased to announce you can now benefit from the following:

  • Accelerate your peak performance.
  • Increase your recovery time.
  • Improve injury recovery rate.
  • Accelerate fat loss.
  • Increase muscle mass and strength.
  • Get ready for your next summit or ski trip.
  • Improved health and immune system.

Altitude training or Hypoxic Training has been well documented in many research studies for various performance and health benefits. Athlete4D are the only training facility in the North East to provide Hypoxia Training to simulate training at high altitude.

When you purchase one of our Altitude Training Programme packages you’ll receive the following complimentary services to ensure you get the very best results from your altitude training.

  1. Physical performance testing specific to goals of programme before the programme
  2. A guided and bespoke designed altitude training programme specific to your goals.
  3. Your own training mask to keep for the length of your programme.
  4. Physical performance re-testing after completion of a minimum of 10 hypoxic sessions.
  5. A performance progress report at the end of your programme.

We recommend you follow a programme for a minimum of 2 weeks and continue for up to 4 weeks. once you’ve peaked at around 4 weeks, you can maintain the benefits by adding a weekly Hypoxic training session into your regime. This is not essential if you don’t have any additional events coming up.

Our standard sessions last 60 minutes with up to 45 minutes of hypoxic training.

You can use your sessions whenever you want, but we recommend following our suggest specific programme to get the maximum benefits of training at altitude.

Contact us to get full details of the programme and pricing options.

 

Research Studies

Effects on aerobic capacity and endurance performance

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3737917/

Effects on growth hormone levels during resistance training

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20019623

Effects on muscular hypertrophy, strength and power

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5357242/

Effects of hypoxic training on weight loss in obese people.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24318688