How can Athletic population benefit?
Physiological testing can provide athletes with the information they need to improve their performance, as it is the best method for assessing their current performance levels and determining which physiological system or systems are limiting their performance.
Every athlete has something that limits their performance, whether it’s cardiovascular, metabolic (cellular), respiratory or musculoskeletal. Physiological testing is the only method to accurately determine how each system is performing. By determining your specific limitation(s), we can then prescribe an individualized, limitation-specific training program. We can then minimize or eliminate these limitations, thereby improving your performance.
Remember, your race training plan is not YOUR race plan…but we can personalize that plan to address your limitations and ensure the intensities, durations, work to rest ratios etc. are all designed specifically for you!
Whether you are a casual athlete using exercise to improve your quality of life or an elite athlete seeking the podium, physiological testing is vital to your success.
VO2max
In addition to identifying and minimizing your performance limitations, physiological testing using metabolic analysis (activity specific VO2max) is the gold standard for identifying your training zones which is vital to ensuring your training achieves it’s set goal(s). Every other method is guessing – and you don’t have time in your training to make errors in your training intensities.By completing a VO2max with oxygen and carbon dioxide measurement, we can also measure caloric expenditure at all exercise intensities which will allow you to plan your nutrition for training and racing.
Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR)
Another important test is a resting metabolic rate (RMR) test. It is the gold standard test for determining how many calories you burn at rest and during low level activities. It also provides the percentage of fat versus carbohydrate you burn at rest, which is the best method for assessing the health of your metabolic systems. If you wish to lose weight, lose fat or increase your metabolic rate, thereby burning more calories at rest, a RMR test is vital to your success.
Spirometry test
Spirometry is another test completed with my clients – it measures your lung capacity (the maximum amount of air you can breathe as well as the maximum amount of air you can expire forcefully which is vital to exercise. This information is vital to those with respiratory limitations as we can determine if your capacity is limited, as well as use these metrics to see how well you can breathe during exercise by evaluating your breathing during your VO2 test.
Athletes invest a lot of time and money into their sport, whether it is running shoes, cycling components, coaching, race fees, travel etc.), now it is time to invest in the most important component of all – YOU!
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