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Why is Physiological Testing Vital to Performance?

Physiological testing provides athletes with the vital information they need to identify their specific limitations to performance, whether cardiovascular, metabolic or respiratory. By determining your specific limitation(s), we can then prescribe an individualised, limitation-specific training program. We can then minimise or eliminate these limitations through appropriate training, thereby improving your performance effectively and efficiently.

Physiological testing is the best method for determining training zones by using different metrics (e.g., fat and carbohydrate utilisation), which is vital to ensuring your specific training is at an appropriate intensity to ensure 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!

Coral M Ultra Athlete

I complete a V02 max test with Daniel and from the testing, Daniel picked up that I had an iron deficiency using Near Infrared Spectroscopy analysis and recommended that I get a blood test to confirm. I took his advice, and it confirmed I had anaemia. I was prescribed iron tablets straight away from my GP. Iron is essential for producing and maintaining red blood cells and if we don’t have enough our body we can’t carry as much oxygen as it should. Daniel also picked up that I wasn’t using my lungs to their full capacity, though they did have the potential, so he gave me a respiratory training program using the BreathWayBetter respiratory training device to improve my respiratory capacity and then breathing coordination. Fast forward a few months and I started seeing changes in my running, I no longer felt out of breath running up hill, I was hitting PR’s and felt fitter than I ever had. For anyone wanting to push their fitness to the next level, I highly recommend getting this testing from Daniel. The results also give you numerous reports that help with ongoing training such as what HR zones you should be training at and how much fat/carbohydrates you should be consuming during training which I have found useful for my training. My V02 max went from 53 to 62 in 5 months from implementing the recommended changes.

William K Athlete

“Working with Daniel was the turning point in my fitness journey. The physiological testing gave me clarity on exactly where I was and what I needed to work on. More importantly, it provided a structure that I could build on week after week. Those two sessions last year were the catalyst for everything I’ve achieved since — from consistent training to real, measurable progress on the bike and in the gym. Daniel’s expertise translated complex data into practical steps that genuinely changed my trajectory.”

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