The eyes of the sporting world will be on Rio de Janeiro when it hosts the Olympic Games this summer, and Spain's La Manga Club is offering guests the exclusive chance to train like an Olympian after opening a new state-of-the-art high-altitude training facility.

Installed in the forward-thinking resort's High Performance Sports Centre, the new iAltitude system – created by a team of Spanish professionals – simulates the effects of training at heights of up to 7,000 metres, leading to improved athletic performance.

Helping to increase lung capacity, resilience and tolerance to tiredness, the system is used by athletes, footballers and mountaineers at the highest level as well as pilots and astronauts – with the likes of double Olympic champion Mo Farah among the leading advocates for high-altitude training.

And it's not only sportsmen and women that can benefit from the new technology at La Manga Club, with the device also medically found to improve people's all-round health with positive effects on stress tolerance, quality of sleep, the immune system and conditions such as asthma.

The installation of the new system is a further illustration of La Manga Club's commitment to innovation and promoting the latest sports science techniques, enhancing its reputation among the world's elite sports and leisure destinations.

The multi award-winning venue, in Murcia, south-east Spain, boasts an extensive array of five-star facilities including its High Performance Sports Centre, which provides athletes of all abilities with the most advanced technology possible to study all aspects of their health and training programmes.

The only place in Spain to offer such a programme, the state-of-the-art facility is available to both professionals and amateurs and has been created to investigate, assess, monitor and advise high-level athletes and the general public about sports performance, health, injury prevention and rehabilitation.

Widely regarded as Spain's flagship resort, La Manga Club has been Europe's leading sports and leisure destination for more than four decades and continues to set the pace across the continent, with the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) and Tennis Europe among its long-term partners.

As well as including three 18-hole golf courses and a Leadbetter Golf Academy – the only one in mainland Spain - the resort features a 28-court tennis centre and a 2,000sqm spa and fitness centre. It also offers the choice of a five-star hotel, four-star serviced apartments and townhouses and more than 20 bars and restaurants.

For more information about La Manga Club, please visit www.lamangaclub.com. 

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La Manga Club
La Manga Club – www.lamangaclub.com – is an unrivalled sports and leisure paradise which sits between the low hills that separate the Mediterranean from the Mar Menor Sea, just 20 minutes from Murcia airport and an hour from Alicante.

Set out over an area of some 560 hectares (approx. 1,400 acres), it enjoys a mild year-round Mediterranean climate and offers visitors a prestigious five-star hotel, luxury vacation apartments and extensive sports facilities, including three championship golf courses, a new Leadbetter Golf Academy – the only one in mainland Spain – a 28-court tennis centre and eight grass sports pitches. The resort is also home to innumerable leisure facilities, such as the 2,000m2 Spa La Manga Club with its 13 luxurious treatment rooms, comprehensive fitness centre and 25m indoor swimming pool; meeting, banqueting and incentive facilities, and more than 20 restaurants and bars.

As well as hosting both Davis and Fed Cup tennis matches, La Manga Club has signed a long-term deal to be the overseas training resort of the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) until 2019. It has also staged the Spanish Open golf championship and regularly attracts professional and international football teams to the first-class year-round training facilities which are also used by rugby and cricket sides.

As a result of more than 40 years of continued investment, innovation and commitment to excellence, La Manga Club is widely recognised as Spain's flagship resort and as one of the finest sports and lifestyle destinations in the world. Evidence of this is provided by its numerous awards and accolades.

La Manga Club was the proud recipient of a 2013 Certificate of Excellence from TripAdvisor, the world's largest travel website, for the facilities and service on offer at its five-star Hotel Principe Felipe. The resort has been voted 'Best Golf Hotel/Resort in Spain' by UK readers of Today's Golfer magazine for the last five years and was named 'Best Golf Hotel in Spain' at the 2014 and 2015 World Golf Awards. La Manga Club has long been a staunch supporter of women's golf, being the official overseas resort partner of the English Women's Golf Association for three years as well as hosting the Ladies European Tour (LET) Qualifying School from 2009-12. La Manga Club is also the venue for the Ladies Murcia Open, an LET Access Series event, and regularly hosts top women's amateur events and teams.

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For more information on La Manga Club contact Pete Simm on 01730 711920 or email petes@theazaleagroup.com