Client Reviews

Amazing Facilities; Outstanding Team. Specialized environment allows you to get better personal performance results in less time. Special Facilities +Customized plans+ Personalized service = Results!

My husband (Terry) and I (65 and 59 respectively) just returned from our bucket list Mt. Kilimanjaro adventure and cannot thank the amazing team at Altitude Athletic Training in Toronto enough! Not only did we make it to the top but we did so in peak health and with no significant challenges. The teams’ support, knowledge and incredible positive energy made the training experience not only highly effective, but FUN! We are so fortunate to have had them all on our team and want to recommend Altitude Athletic Training to everyone out there who wants to attain a goal at altitude or if you simply want to push yourself farther for an exceptional work out. Climb higher!!!

Preparing for my Himalaya trek with Altitude Athletic Training was a wonderful experience. The entire staff were knowledgeable and helpful, and guided me to a level of fitness that prepared me for both the physical demands of an 18 day trek (one day actually registered as 271 flights climbed, and that was on uneven terrain), and also acclimatized me for the high altitudes I would encounter. Two of the many highlights on my trek were crossing the Thorong La, the pass over the Annapurna range at 6000 metres, and seeing the sunrise on Annapurna 1 from base camp. Were I to do another trek, I would opt for the 3 month training program again. This boutique fitness centre has wonderful equipment, personalized training programs that are adjusted to both further your level of fitness and also keep you interested and motivated. Clean, friendly, fun. I highly recommend it!

My wife and I both in our 60’s trained over the last 2 years to prepare for Kilimanjaro, Inca Trail to Machu Piccu and Everest base camp. The staff are highly qualified and the facilities are amazing and clean. Everyone is friendly and welcoming. We feel strongly that we were able to complete our goals because of the way we had been prepared physically and mentally.

We are so glad we discovered Altitude Athletics It was well worth the time and effort! We highly recommend them even if you aren’t preparing for a climb

Great setup and really wonderful team. Best place to train for hikes and altitude or just to push your fitness to next level.

Awesome, well-equipped facility, very professional and friendly staff, individualized programs are a game-changer for anyone planning a big climb.

Amazing equipment, facilities, and staff! I would highly recommend this place to anyone interested in high-altitude training or looking to push themselves toward any aerobic goal. I personally trained here for 8 months in preparation for an Ironman race, working with their outstanding trainer, Yaath. I’m not sure I could have completed it without his expertise, guidance, and support.

Summit member for 3 months. Can’t speak more highly of Altitude as a “semi-extreme” athlete. Amazing facility and staff, the benefits of altitude training were remarkable for me. I’ve raced ultras for years, joined Altitude with an aggressive race schedule (3 ultras and a marathon major within 11 weeks) and exceeded all expectations with a couple PBs. With lower overall intensity I’m faster than I have been before.

I’ve never enjoyed going to gyms before, but Melanie and her team have made a unique and valuable space to train for extreme activities. Highly recommend

I love this place as it’s got top of the range equipment and of course you are getting the gains of altitude as you work out. Everything is spotless clean too. The people are also incredibly nice and helpful. Likely my best gym experience in Toronto to date.

Altitude Athletic is making me stronger. My HRV is higher than it ever has been. My resting heart rate is down to 58. Both visceral and subcutaneous fat is down. Muscle rate is up. I’m feeling stronger. My Fibro is behaving. Looking forward to seeing how much further I can go. Thank you Altitude Athletic, I’m forever indebted to you and coach Josh Downer.

Joining Altitude earlier this year has been one of the best decisions I’ve ever made! The facility and the people are incredible and it has truly transformed my health and fitness levels. I had never been a gym person prior to purchasing their summit program and I got paired with an incredible trainer who has given me a customized plan and even coached me to finishing my first ever half marathon. It is the most welcoming gym and I look forward to each session here and know I have the best support to complete all my future goals 🙂

I’ve been a member for almost a year! Amazing team! Everyone from the front desk staff to the trainers to the managers are amazingly friendly, kind and always helpful and supportive. They genuinely get to know who you are and what matters to you. They keep up with your fitness journey, cheering on your accomplishments and picking you back up when you’re down!

If you’re looking for a great place to work out that is high tech, upscale, and well kept with a great community of people who genuinely care. This is the place for you!

Many thanks to everyone at Altitude Fitness for helping me and my daughter get ready for our Inca trail hike. I did the mountain express package and after one month of intense workouts at ever increasing simulated altitude, I felt super fit and ready for my hike. Definitely worth it!

Altitude Athletic Training is an excellent facility to get your workout at. It is a modern, tech-forward, beautifully designed space with top-notch equipment, and all the while you get that extra edge of a simulated altitude environment. What makes this space even more special is the people that fill it. The team is a lovely bunch. Always so positive and always there for support.

Before joining Altitude, I could never get enough self motivation to consistently go to a gym and feel confident in my exercises. At Altitude however, I have an enormous appreciation for my coaches for getting me started and, planning and tracking a much kinder, yet challenging, approach to working out. Their support and positive feedback helped my motivation, strength, and energy levels to having a daily active fitness lifestyle despite how busy my day gets. With both the excellent facility and the amazing team at Altitude Athletic Training, it is hard to imagine finding a better gym anywhere else.

Great facility with fantastic staff . The variety classes at Altitude prepped me for my first Marathon as well as an Ultra Marathon that will be taking place later this month.

I trained at Altitude Athletic Training in preparation for my Kilimanjaro climb, and it made a measurable difference in how my body handled altitude.

We did structured hypoxic sessions simulating up to 20,000 feet, and I committed to it consistently in the lead-up to the trip. By the time I landed in Tanzania, I felt calm about the altitude instead of anxious. On summit night, while others were really struggling, I felt steady, controlled, and confident in my breathing. That doesn’t happen by accident.

The team was knowledgeable, encouraging, and genuinely invested in the process. They took the time to explain what was happening physiologically and why the training mattered. It wasn’t gimmicky. It was intentional.

I summited Kilimanjaro via the 8-day Lemosho route and genuinely believe this training played a significant role in how well I acclimatized.

If you’re serious about altitude goals, this is worth it.

Grateful for the support.

Excellent facility and well run by good people who care. I’ve been going to the gym off and on for my entire life without seeing much results. I did see progress when I was doing personal training but it was expensive and I stopped going after the pandemic hit. Everything went downhill from there and I went to my old over weight self again.

Then I found Altitude. The personal coaching, analytics and plans created by their team has put me in the best shape in my entire life. They have easy to follow programs that I can actually manage and find the motivation to do. Most of my workouts could be done in 1 to 1.5 hours and doing this at a high altitude environment just enhances my workouts. I’m all about efficiency so this is perfect for me. Less time for more results.

On the initial consultation they analyzed my body to figure out the most optimized way to achieve my fitness goals. Then they set up a personalized program just for me that I easily follow on an app on my phone. The coaches then monitor and check in to ensure that I’m doing the exercises properly.

The result, I’ve lost over 15 lbs in just the past 4 months and it was pure fat. I know as they have the equipment to take my metrics and so I know for sure as my muscle mass has gone up! Plus I can see my six pack something that I’ve never seen before. For a lazy gym guy like me who has never consistently done this for the past decades of my life it’s nice to finally achieve my fitness goals. Thank you Altitude for helping me get there!

I’ve tried lots of different gyms and fitness classes over the years, including the likes of Barry’s Bootcamp and Soul Cycle, and none of them make me feel quite as much like an athlete as Altitude does. The team there actually care about your performance and listen to your goals, instead of trying to push the next fitness fad onto you. Not only that, their concept is focused on high altitude training through their spacious and well-equipped altitude chamber, which is a very effective way to improve your fitness. I love their classes, which really push you and manage to be fun and energizing at the same time. I would recommend Altitude to anyone regardless of fitness-level, who are looking to improve their overall health and join an encouraging community – even better if you’re training for an event or signing up for a climb.

I received amazing support from the team at altitude and the facility was topnotch!

I’ve trained at Altitude for a few years and for several different objectives (4000-6000m peaks, trekking, endurance goals, strength goals). The tailored and personal approach allowed me to be in the best physical and mental shape for each objective. The gym truely is a community of like minded people and stepping in motivates you to push yourself. The staff and trainers are phenomenal (Josh and Gustavo specifically) and I would recommend the gym to anyone seeking to push themselves !!!!!

I found this top-notch and one-of-a-kind gym during preparation for some difficult high-altitude hiking trails and this is the only place in Toronto/Ontario that mimics the oxygen level at higher altitude. The 3 different altitude schedule throughout the day covers all your need. And if requested, other specialty equipment would be provided to help achieve my goal. I’ve joined the club for almost a year now, and till this day, I am still constantly amazed by the knowledgeable and extremely friendly staff, always tidy and clean environment. You know you would be taken great care of her, regardless of your goal being improving body responses to exercise / increasing endurance / enhancing performance in competitions / increasing aerobic capacity / better lactic acid capacity, or simply finding peers who share your passion.

This is a truly unique and amazing place! I’ve trained at Altitude Athletic multiple times and the gym is beautifully designed, high-tech, and the fact you have an entire large room where the atmosphere can change to reflect different elevations is something I’ve never seen before. The staff were very friendly and helpful and they have some great coaches too!

I was working in Toronto for the summer and needed a place to workout. As a former athlete, I was extremely intrigued by the altitude chamber. I ended up training at altitude for the summer and loved it. Great equipment, beautiful space, lovely amenities, and fantastic staff.
Highly recommend for anyone looking to level up their fitness

I am so glad I discovered this place. Literally changed my life. I spent three months training here, preparing for my second attempt on Aconcagua. I feel highly confident of success (weather not withstanding) and finding it an easier ask of my body then this years attempt.

Altitude Athletic Training isn’t just a gym, it isn’t just a place to get High Altitude exposure. It is a community of likeminded individuals, who become friends. It is a space filled with expertise and experience from all sports and it only serves to fuel one’s passion. Training here was an amazing experience.

The trainers are first class, the kit is phenomenal, and (if you follow the instructions) the results are incredible. Sadly I have now left Toronto, and the one thing I miss most are my daily morning sessions, and my friends at AAT.

Cannot wait to come back and re-engage.

Altitude Training is a top-notch training facility! It was a pure joy to work with this incredible team. Josh Downer is truly exceptional! He has a passion for what he does! We were impressed with his level of knowledge, patience, kindness, attention to details and personalized touch! The amount of time and effort he put working with us was unbelievable! He pushed us beyond what we believed were our limits. The program was tailored to your goals. He helped us, zero level beginners, to get ready for climbing Cayambe volcano (5,790 meters) in Ecuador. We got to the summit at the first attempt with no any altitude sickness symptoms. Thumbs up to this training center and its super friendly and professional staff! Highly recommended! Would totally train with them again for the next summit!

I have for years tried to find a gym that didn’t treat me like a $, somewhere that would educate me and help me understand my body in relation to my goals. But let’s face it; this is everyone’s hope. Every gym has a “schtick,” and in the end, you probably stopped going because once you got past the aesthetics and the basic programming, you realized you were not getting anywhere. Me too, and that’s why you should try Altitude.

Don’t go because of the hypoxic training.
Don’t go because it looks great.
Don’t go because they use objective, quantitative analysis.
Don’t go because the personal trainers are fantastic (shout out to Josh)
Don’t go because they bend over backwards to make you feel welcome.
Don’t go because the founder, Melanie, has a mutant bunny that secretly runs the whole thing.

Go because you’ll actually Go.
Regardless of your fitness level, start here, and feel good about yourself amongst one of the best gym communities I’ve ever interacted with.

Thank you, Team Altitude, for helping me feel great; the impact on my life has been profound, mentally and physically.

Now, I did what the rabbit said; please tell it to release my family 😉

Altitude Athletic Training has been a life changing moment for me in my journey to get healthier. Like many people, since Covid, I have struggled to find an exercise routine that keeps me engaged and regular. With trainers willing to design programs specifically for my body type and fitness goals, and staff that are always willing to help, I have found an inclusive and encouraging community with Altitude.