Professional Teams and Organisations Using Simulated Altitude

Professional teams and high-performance organisations across cycling, AFL, swimming, rowing, rugby and Olympic sport have documented the use of simulated-altitude systems for athlete preparation.

These systems range from hypoxic training rooms and environmental chambers to altitude houses, bedrooms and tents.

This catalogue brings together publicly documented installations, use and partnerships. Sources include official team statements, governing bodies, independent media, academic research, project documentation and Box Altitude’s own published relationships.

Some entries describe historical programmes or partnerships. Inclusion does not imply a current relationship with Box Altitude unless explicitly stated.

For an introduction to the technology, see our Altitude Rooms & Hypoxic Rooms guide or explore our Altitude Bedroom System.

Box Altitude partnerships and documented users

Team Jumbo-Visma — professional cycling

In March 2021, Team Jumbo-Visma announced a two-year partnership with Box Altitude to support its riders’ preparation with altitude sleeping and training systems. The announcement described how simulated-altitude environments could help athletes prepare at home when travel to altitude camps was restricted.

The announcement remains available on the Team Visma | Lease a Bike website.

Source: Official team announcement — Box Altitude partnership.

EF Pro Cycling — professional cycling

EF Pro Cycling’s Box Altitude partner page describes how its riders use simulated altitude at home to complement altitude camps and maintain access to hypoxic exposure when they cannot travel to elevation.

Source: EF Pro Cycling — Box Altitude partner page.

Team Bahrain Victorious — professional cycling

In March 2021, Team Bahrain Victorious announced Box Altitude as an official partner supplying altitude simulation systems. The team highlighted the convenience of giving riders access to simulated altitude at home when they could not attend training camps.

Source: Team Bahrain Victorious — official partnership announcement.

Queensland Academy of Sport — multi-sport high performance

Box Altitude has documented a partnership with the Queensland Academy of Sport supplying altitude sleeping and training systems for elite-athlete preparation.

Source: Box Altitude — Queensland Academy of Sport partnership.

Australian national swimming programmes

Box Altitude’s published swimming information identifies Australian national swimming programmes among the users of its systems for athlete preparation.

Source: Box Altitude — swimming at altitude.

Australian national cycling and endurance programmes

Box Altitude’s published cycling information documents use of its systems within Australian national cycling and endurance programmes.

Source: Box Altitude — cycling at altitude.

AFL clubs with documented hypoxic-room use

Collingwood Football Club

Collingwood has reported using a hypoxic room for intermittent hypoxic training alongside traditional altitude camps. Club reporting has also described players completing additional conditioning sessions in the room.

Source: Collingwood FC — From the mountain to the MCG.

Gold Coast SUNS

Gold Coast has documented both the construction and use of its altitude room. In one example, player Tom Nicholls spent approximately 12 hours per night in the club’s altitude chamber over 14 days while teammates attended a natural-altitude camp.

Sources: Gold Coast SUNS — altitude-room installation and Tom Nicholls’ simulated-altitude camp.

Carlton Football Club

Adelaide Football Club reported that Carlton players had access to an altitude chamber at Visy Park and had used purpose-built high-altitude accommodation during a camp in the Middle East.

Source: Adelaide Football Club — Crows consider altitude room.

Adelaide Football Club

Adelaide documented players and performance staff using an external altitude-training facility while the club considered building its own room at West Lakes. This records use of an external facility, rather than confirmation of a club-owned installation.

Source: Adelaide Football Club — Crows consider altitude room.

National institutes and Olympic high-performance centres

Australian Institute of Sport — Altitude House

The AIS describes its Altitude House as a dedicated live-high, train-low facility, with 22 beds across multiple living pods. It provides simulated-altitude accommodation for athletes preparing across endurance, winter, team and Para sports.

The AIS has also documented use by athletes from cycling, rowing, kayaking, triathlon and athletics.

Source: Australian Institute of Sport — Altitude House.

NSW Institute of Sport

NSWIS has documented a hypoxic swimming system at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre, alongside an environmental room, hypoxic tents and a converted altitude motor home for use by athletes outside the pool.

Source: NSW Institute of Sport — hypoxic-system announcement.

Team Bath / British Olympic swimming preparation

Team GB reported that Olympic swimmers Michael Jamieson and Andrew Willis slept in altitude systems installed in bedrooms while training at Bath.

This documents individual athletes using simulated-altitude sleeping environments within an Olympic preparation programme.

Source: Team GB — Jamieson slept in altitude chamber.

Further examples in professional cycling

Alpecin-Fenix / Alpecin-Deceuninck

Cyclingnews reported that Mathieu van der Poel and much of the team’s Giro d’Italia selection slept in atmosphere-controlled hotel rooms that simulated altitude during a pre-race camp.

This illustrates how teams can incorporate hypoxic sleeping environments into a training camp without staying at natural altitude.

Source: Cyclingnews — simulated-altitude accommodation in cycling.

Rowing

Polish national-team elite rowers

A 2026 controlled study at the Olympic Sports Center in Poland examined an 18-day live-high, train-low programme involving elite national-team rowers. Athletes slept in normobaric hypoxic rooms, with simulated sleeping altitude progressively increased from 2,000 m to 3,000 m.

This records use within a specific research programme.

Source: Frontiers in Physiology — study of elite rowers.

Rugby and shared performance facilities

ACT Brumbies / University of Canberra Sports Common

Project documentation for the University of Canberra Sports Common, which houses Brumbies staff and players, describes an environmental chamber capable of simulating altitude and controlling temperature and humidity for exercise and testing.

This documents a facility at the shared site; it does not establish a specific Brumbies training protocol.

Source: Dowse Projects — University of Canberra Sports Common.

What types of altitude systems do teams use?

Simulated-altitude systems take several forms:

• Altitude rooms and hypoxic rooms: whole rooms maintained at reduced oxygen levels for training or other planned exposure.

• Altitude houses: accommodation designed for living and sleeping at simulated altitude.

• Environmental chambers: rooms combining simulated altitude with temperature and, in some cases, humidity control.

• Altitude bedrooms: individual sleeping rooms maintained at a selected simulated altitude.

• Altitude tents: smaller enclosures around a bed or training station.

• Simulated-altitude hotel rooms: guest bedrooms with controlled oxygen levels for altitude sleeping programmes.

Why teams use simulated altitude

The main attraction is control. Simulated-altitude systems let teams schedule hypoxic exposure around their normal training base, reduce the need for travel and repeat programmes under controlled conditions.

The intended use varies. Some organisations use hypoxic rooms for conditioning sessions, while others use sleeping facilities as part of a live-high, train-low programme. Environmental chambers can also support preparation for events held in demanding climatic conditions.

A short training session in a hypoxic room and an overnight altitude-sleeping programme involve different exposure patterns and should not be treated as interchangeable.

Does team use prove altitude works for everyone?

No. Institutional adoption demonstrates that simulated altitude is used in high-performance sport, but it does not guarantee a particular result for every athlete.

Outcomes depend on the programme, total exposure, individual response and the athlete’s wider training and recovery context.

For more on the evidence, see Does Altitude Training Actually Work? and Altitude Sleep Studies.

Planning an altitude room for your team or facility

Box Altitude designs simulated-altitude systems for sports teams, institutes, gyms and performance centres. Each project is assessed around room volume, maximum occupancy, intended use, target altitude, cooling and ventilation.

As an initial planning guide:

• Altitude training rooms: approximately 12 m³ per F20 generator.

• Altitude sleeping rooms: approximately 16 m³ per F20 generator.

These are preliminary sizing guides. Final equipment requirements depend on the room and how it will be used.

See How Many F20 Altitude Generators Do I Need? or contact Box Altitude with your room plans, ceiling height, intended occupancy and target altitude to discuss a suitable system.

This catalogue records publicly documented use, installations and partnerships. Historical announcements do not establish current sponsorship status, and organisations are only identified as Box Altitude partners or users where a supporting relationship is explicitly documented.