Performance Testing

Informations

Performance diagnostics, that's what we are known for since 2005, first in Dortmund, since 2012 centrally in Witten in the Ruhrgebiet and since 2019 in Bavaria. In addition, thanks to our mobile unit, we can offer professional appointments throughout Germany. Our performance diagnostics is a combination of different methods and is different from classic methods such as the (lactate) step test or spiroergometry. The goal of our methods is not so much to calculate as to measure as much relevant data as possible. In addition, we strive to use a method that is valid both here on site and works for our customers who live further away, e.g. with a powermeter. It goes without saying that the extensive preliminary examinations have to be omitted then, but exact performance data can be recorded and training areas can be determined in this way (when the athlete is on his own).

We also strive to bring our knowledge to a higher level and to improve our training and our tests through constant testing and practical experience of our customers, further education through literature, distance learning or webinars with coaches all over the world.
We are not afraid to change our procedures, we are of the opinion that if you try to achieve the optimum, you must constantly question yourself and not be too stubborn to go new ways if you come to the conclusion that it is still possible to do better.
The results are practical test procedures that influence the athlete as little as possible and provide accurate results in the laboratory or on your own.

Testing

In our tests, we attach importance to checking the performance spectrum of an athlete as comprehensively as possible, which is why the test today consists of an individual load length (depending on performance capability) and is run as a race simulation. Two three-minute breaks are included in each length, and all sections are to be run at individually high loads.

The measurement of performance, oxygen saturation of the muscle in real time, lactate in real time, fluid loss, sodium content in sweat, heart rate and cardiac stress provide an accurate picture of the current load.

When compiling the test procedure, we were guided by the practical tests that leading trainers perform, for example, with professional cyclists, combined with our decades of experience that test procedures with rigid specifications often achieved worse results with our customers.

The tests are carried out with the most modern diagnostic instruments, it is important to us that the measurements capture as accurately as possible what you expect in reality.
The test design was chosen by us for extreme accuracy and transferability. So even if the athlete has to perform the test himself, we can achieve accurate results if it is performed accurately, even customers who never make it to us, we can provide excellent service. Customers from as far away as the USA take advantage of this.

For the optimal supply during the diagnostics a high-quality electrolyte drink is handed.

After the test, each athlete receives a regeneration shake to accelerate muscular regeneration.
It is very important for us to keep out of the discussion which test method is the right one and which calculation method is the choice. Lactate test, spiroergometry, 3 min, steps, 5 min steps, ramp test, step test - the choice seems almost endless. To put it simply, we load you so long and hard that we determine the value at stake, namely your individual threshold power, to the greatest extent possible instead of trying to derive and calculate it somehow. This takes longer and is very tiring, but you will notice when you work with the data in practice that it fits.

In 2014 we predicted the bike times of our athletes in various Ironman races to +/- 7 min, and that for a 180km distance, in 2017 it became even more accurate, so something like that speaks for itself....

In addition, we have already carried out other methods ourselves for years (lactate stage tests with 6, later with 12min stages) or tested (spiroergometry, here we were able to prove a reduction in performance through the mask), in the end we have as in all areas and always thought about whether we do not see potential for improvement and this then implemented if necessary, we will continue to handle so that we hopefully continue to develop in the coming years.

For customers in ongoing training support, we are since 2017 even so individual that the tests for each athlete look different.