Acclimation helps your body adjust to tough environments for better performance and comfort. Heat acclimation improves sweating, skin blood flow, and lowers heart rate, allowing you to exercise longer without overheating. Altitude acclimation enhances red blood cell production and breathing efficiency, helping you cope with lower oxygen levels at high elevation. Together, these adaptations boost endurance and help you perform at your best in varied conditions.
Email the lab to book a session: sportscience@marjon.ac.uk
Please note our availability changes every week so it’s best to email us days/times you are available. Our typical booking range is from 9am-7pm Monday – Friday.
Booking a heat and altitude acclimation session provides realistic preparation by simulating challenging environmental conditions such as extreme heat, cold, or high altitude before competition or travel. Through performance testing, we evaluate how your body responds to these stresses during controlled activity, allowing you to understand your individual adaptation profile. This process supports improvements in thermoregulation, fatigue resistance, and overall readiness to perform in unfamiliar climates. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to develop and refine practical strategies for hydration, pacing, and cooling, ensuring you are optimally prepared to face environmental challenges and gain a competitive edge.
Please note: throughout the session, students will be conducting the tests whilst supervised by staff. You are directly supporting our mission to provide students with valuable, real-world experience.
“The team were very knowledgeable and made the experience clear and straightforward. This experience not only got my body physically ready to race in the heat but also taught me how exercising in the heat felt. I used this knowledge during the race I was preparing for.”
November, 2024
“The team have expertise in running programmes for athletes and the military. I learnt about hydration, nutrition and performance in the desert, as well as seeing improvements in my response to exercise in the heat. The whole experience has added immeasurably to my developmental journey.”
April, 2023
“I was training for the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii as the heat can go up to 30'c with 80% humidity. Conditions I could easily replicate at home. The heat chamber allowed me to see how I would perform, and also increase my tolerance to the heat and humidity. ”
September, 2025